Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I never really paid attention to Ubuntu's package selection, however, > since I used a stock configuration most of the time.  Does anyone know > if Ubuntu has the same vast package selection as Debian?  Just > wondering... > That depends more on your needs than anything. Ubuntu does have a vast

Re: Getting the ATL2 kernel module to work with Xen

2009-04-26 Thread Jeroen Steenbeeke
Yup, that did it! Booted with the regular 2.6.26-2-amd64 kernel, did m-a a-i -l 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 atl2-source, and then rebooted with the amd64 kernel - and the network worked! Thanks a lot! - Jeroen 2009/4/27 Michael Pobega > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:50:05PM +0200, Jeroen Steenbeeke wrote: >

Re: xserver-xorg (1:7.4+1) + keyboard woes

2009-04-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,26.Apr.09, 16:40:44, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Where do I start? http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: VNC Server?

2009-04-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,27.Apr.09, 00:19:06, Depo Catcher wrote: > > uh, ok. Thanks > > Why didn't aptitude find it? Because aptitude doesn't search for files in a package, not even if installed. It does search however in name, short description, long description and various (all?) other fields in the package

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

2009-04-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,26.Apr.09, 21:53:33, Davide Mancusi wrote: > But the keyboard repeat rate is not set by Xkb, as far > as I'm aware. Right. As far as I can tell it's set in the WM/DE (for Xfce: Menu -> Settings -> Keyboard: Behaviour tab). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you do

Re: Hal monitor detection, was hal documentation

2009-04-26 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: On Apr 25, 2009, at 2:58 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 08:35:18 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On Apr 25, 2009, at 2:02 AM, Paul Scott wrote: [...] So why can 'Xorg -configure' detect my monitor frequencies correctly and whatever Hal uses can't? get-edid

Re: xen, guest won't start, "Hotplug scripts not working"

2009-04-26 Thread G. Crimp
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:54:10AM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:18 AM, wrote: > > > > # mount > > [irrelevant stuff deleted] > > /dev/mapper/Bun_vg-mabelleSys_lv on /mnt type ext3 (rw) > > Having partition mounted is not a good idea for xen machines, umount > it ant

Re: VNC Server?

2009-04-26 Thread Depo Catcher
uh, ok.  Thanks Why didn't aptitude find it? Jan Muszynski wrote: Depo Catcher wrote: ok thanks. That worked. for bonus points, were/how do I install 'dos2unix' and 'unix2dos'... it doesn't come install by default nor does it show up in aptitude apt-file find dos2u

About packages on Lenny repo

2009-04-26 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, I need following packages to install PSPP graphing interface; (see) The following package is required to enable PSPP's graphing features. . on; http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/pspp/INSTALL?revision=1.16&root=pspp&view=markup&pathrev=MAIN libplot, from GNU plotutils (http://

Re: All locales in /usr/share/locale

2009-04-26 Thread Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक]
2009/4/27 Nuno Magalhães : >>  dpkg-reconfigure locales >> >> Unselect the locales you don't want, then run localeourge again. > > That's the whole point: i've never selected all locales in the first > place, only 2. > > -- > ()  ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\  ascii-rubanda kampa

Re: VNC Server?

2009-04-26 Thread Jan Muszynski
Depo Catcher wrote: > > ok thanks. That worked. > > for bonus points, were/how do I install 'dos2unix' and 'unix2dos'... it > doesn't come install by default nor does it show up in aptitude apt-file find dos2unix tofrodos: /usr/bin/dos2unix apt-file find /usr/bin/unix2dos tofrodos: /usr/bin/un

Re: how to sync the gmail and evolution?

2009-04-26 Thread 明覺
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:09 AM, 明覺 wrote: > I have setup gmail in evolution successfully, using imap for > receiving, but I found that if i remove a mail in gmail, the same mail > still exists in evolution; if i remove a mail in evolution, the same > mail still exists in gmail, but I hope they c

how to sync the gmail and evolution?

2009-04-26 Thread 明覺
I have setup gmail in evolution successfully, using imap for receiving, but I found that if i remove a mail in gmail, the same mail still exists in evolution; if i remove a mail in evolution, the same mail still exists in gmail, but I hope they can keep sync with each other, how to reach it? thanks

Re: virtual screen size, Lenny, xorg, Shuttle Xpc

2009-04-26 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/04/26 15:42 (GMT-0700) Andrew Porter composed: ... > Section "Device" > Identifier "Configured Video Device" > Driver "radeon" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > VideoRam32768 > EndSection ... http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde/2008-12/msg0006

how to also delete the mail in gmail when deleted the same mail in evolution?

2009-04-26 Thread 明覺
I have setup evolution for gmail successfully, uing imap for receiving, but i found that if i delete a mail in evolution, the same mail won't be removed from gmail, but I hope gmail mails can be sync with my evolution mails, how to reach it? thanks. -- My platform is GNU/Linux Debian(sid-amd64, l

how to also delete the mail in gmail when deleted the same mail in evolution?

2009-04-26 Thread 明覺
I have setup evolution for gmail successfully, uing imap for receiving, but i found that if i delete a mail in evolution, the same mail won't be removed from gmail, but I hope gmail mails can be sync with my evolution mails, how to reach it? thanks. -- My platform is GNU/Linux Debian(sid-amd64, l

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Mark Allums
Petrus Validus wrote: i would like to see some opinions and personal experiences regarding these 2 excellent systems! I used to use Ubuntu back in the 5.10 and 6.06 days for about a year or so as a desktop. I liked it and it was alright but Debian's stability and performance won me over! I ne

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:25:35PM EDT, Kent West wrote: [..] > "Ubuntu" is an African word meaning "I can't figure out how to install > Debian". After all, there is such a thing as miracles.. at long last s/o is bringing a bit of sense to this nonsense. And, I really mean.. Thanks, CJ --

Re: VNC Server?

2009-04-26 Thread Depo Catcher
ok thanks. That worked. for bonus points, were/how do I install 'dos2unix' and 'unix2dos'... it doesn't come install by default nor does it show up in aptitude Magnus Pedersen wrote: Depo Catcher wrote: What's the "linux" way of installing a Tight VNC Server? On windows, I just run the e

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread 明覺
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 07:32:43PM -0700, paragasu wrote: >> ubuntu == debian testing, >> >> if you think debian outdated, try debian unstable. > > The problem is this, debian is definetly stable for server. But after > one or two years aft

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Kent West
Thorny wrote: > On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:40:47 -0500, Mark Allums posted: > > >> paragasu wrote: >> >>> ubuntu == debian testing, >>> >>> if you think debian outdated, try debian unstable. >>> >>> >>> >> ubuntu = debian unstable >> > > Ubuntu=(a snapshot of Debian unstable at the

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Mark Allums
Thorny wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:40:47 -0500, Mark Allums posted: paragasu wrote: ubuntu == debian testing, if you think debian outdated, try debian unstable. ubuntu = debian unstable Ubuntu=(a snapshot of Debian unstable at the time)!=Debian unstable. Note, I used an assignment o

Re: virtual screen size, Lenny, xorg, Shuttle Xpc

2009-04-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <200904270054.n3r0sfgb029...@tdl.com>, Andrew Porter wrote: >Thnks much --- so who in debian.org will be integrating >the latest (1.7) x.org / libxrandr2 into Lenny updates? >And any idea of how to delicately ask when, without >seeming too impatient? As this is a "new" feature--a feature Lenny

Re: how to solve the dependency problem when installing kde in sid?

2009-04-26 Thread 明覺
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <6a8fced30904251018ud98b3f3na5ce6f0f0b15a...@mail.gmail.com>, 明覺 wrote: >>On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:21 PM, M. Henne wrote: >>> If you upgrade KDE currently, you most likely get KDE 4.2.2. >>thanks, but I want to install kde3, not

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-26 Thread Petrus Validus
> > Because MS-bashing on a Debian-centric list does wonder for promoting > > the usage of FOSS software, right? > > I'm not promoting anything. > > A bit of anti-M$ trolling is always fun and could get the party going. > > :-) I was a Windows admin for a number of years, that company drove me

Re: virtual screen size, Lenny, xorg, Shuttle Xpc

2009-04-26 Thread Andrew Porter
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > In , Andrew Porter wrote: > >Lenny as it came to me has xorg version 1:7.3+18 , > >so it's presumably not because the version was too old. > > No, it probably is. I think that is considered "1.5". Sid now has 1:7.4+1 > which is considered "1.6". > -- > Boyd S

Re: Getting the ATL2 kernel module to work with Xen

2009-04-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:50:05PM +0200, Jeroen Steenbeeke wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I am having some problems with my server setup, and I'm starting to go crazy > trying to figure this out. I want to use my computer to host a couple of Xen > guests, but no matter what I do, I keep running into

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-26 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 04:31:17AM EDT, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> I don't know about their more recent consumer-grade offering but > >> you may want to take a look at Windows '98. When I got the laptop, > >> it came with a 20-page or so manual. But then considering the > >> "capabilities" of the OS

Re: virtual screen size, Lenny, xorg, Shuttle Xpc

2009-04-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Andrew Porter wrote: >Lenny as it came to me has xorg version 1:7.3+18 , >so it's presumably not because the version was too old. No, it probably is. I think that is considered "1.5". Sid now has 1:7.4+1 which is considered "1.6". -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b.

Re: shrink lvm to get spare space

2009-04-26 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 07:35:18PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> 4. Shrink the partition. (I'm comfortable with fdisk, but gparted is > >> the recommendation I've heard the most.) > >If I don't do this, will there be spare space unformatted after I do the > >first two steps? > > It wi

Re: shrink lvm to get spare space

2009-04-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090426220025.ga12...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 04:50:16PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> 3. Shrink the physical volume. (I'm not even sure LVM supports this. >> If this is your only physical volume, and you are using the extents

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-26 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 01:12:03AM EDT, Paul Johnson wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 06:12:35AM EDT, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >>> Check out the FreeBSD handbook at: > >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ > >>> It is also available as a pdf which is >10

virtual screen size, Lenny, xorg, Shuttle Xpc

2009-04-26 Thread Andrew Porter
Lenny as it came to me has xorg version 1:7.3+18 , so it's presumably not because the version was too old. --- Andrew Porter, a...@jedp.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Petrus Validus
> i would like to see some opinions and personal experiences regarding > these 2 excellent systems! I used to use Ubuntu back in the 5.10 and 6.06 days for about a year or so as a desktop. I liked it and it was alright but Debian's stability and performance won me over! I never really paid atten

Re: virtual screen size, Lenny, xorg, Shuttle Xpc

2009-04-26 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/04/26 15:42 (GMT-0700) Andrew Porter composed: > In Debian Lenny, newly installed: > Wanted a virtual X screen size > bigger than the physical screen size; ... > This is the xorg.conf as I attempted > to get it to produce a virtual screen size > bigger than the physical screen size: ..

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-04-26 Thread Owen Townend
2009/4/24 Paul E Condon : > On 2009-04-23_21:27:07, Daniel Burrows wrote: [snip] >> >>   The "state" is a flag indicating the package's current state.  It's >> written as an integer because I designed this code when I was young and >> foolish. :-)  The relevant values are: The hint was here.. ^^ .

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
> are there situations where debian is preferable (eg older hardware)? Extreme devotion to FOSS ideals, environments where security and stability are most important. > are there situations where ubuntu is preferable (eg picking up newer > hardware)? > Installing for new Linux users, hardware tha

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-26 Thread jidanni
Question: do all packages pass the piuparts tests yet, in that they don't leave a residue behind? If we are to name names then those who do not pass piuparts are it. Then there are those that create files at other times during their lifespan that piuparts wouldn't catch. Then there's the pre-piup

videncia pelo agua proposta

2009-04-26 Thread pedro
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Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-26 Thread jidanni
# apt-get install rcconf and then just uncheck your X window manager from the rcconf list. You can still start it any time with # /etc/init.d/example start but to stop it you need to do # cd /tmp; nohup /etc/init.d/example stop at least with xdm. Or else it hangs up before it can stop itself. Here

virtual screen size, Lenny, xorg, Shuttle Xpc

2009-04-26 Thread Andrew Porter
In Debian Lenny, newly installed: Wanted a virtual X screen size bigger than the physical screen size; The machine is a Shuttle Xpc. output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX Host (rev 11) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integr

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <6b1504c40904260811h249ac7d4m14cc7d9b40c51...@mail.gmail.com>, Nuno Magalhães wrote: >Slightly OT-ish, but if i want to install an Ubuntu package on Debian. >should i use dpkg -i or alien? Not alien. dpkg -i is a start, but it might fail. If it does, use the .dsc to build new .deb. If that

xserver-xorg (1:7.4+1) + keyboard woes

2009-04-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I run a two-seater on Sid and upgraded xserver-xorg to where it uses hal and console-setup. Now the downarrow and leftarrow keys don't repeat on X, but they do on the console of seat1 (seat2 has no console VT's). Uparrow and rightarrow do repeat. None of the mentioned info helps with t

Re: shrink lvm to get spare space

2009-04-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090426181517.ga9...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >on on of my systems I have >FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on >/dev/mapper/debian-root > 224G 12G 200G 6% / > >Now I would like to shrink / by 30G so that I have 30G for a

Re: shrink lvm to get spare space

2009-04-26 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 04:50:16PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090426181517.ga9...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > >on on of my systems I have > >FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > >/dev/mapper/debian-root > > 224

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

2009-04-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <75jcb4f18k22...@mid.dfncis.de>, M. Henne wrote: >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote in : >> What version of kwin are you running, just for my information? >mar...@asgard:~$ kwin --version >Qt: 4.5.1 I'm using Qt 4.4.3 here. Could you try with that version? Perhaps it is a Qt bug. (That would sur

Re: wget file name is too long

2009-04-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 15:07:19 +0200, Erik Xavior wrote: > $ wget -tc '?' URL > wget: --tries: Invalid number `c'. > > $ wget --trimcharacter '?' URL > wget: unrecognized option `--trimcharacter' > Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]... > > Try `wget --help' for more options. > > > man wget says no

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:09:37PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,26.Apr.09, 17:58:43, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:10:02AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Sat,25.Apr.09, 07:59:23, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > > > > > Sorry I'm not working on Debian replying your posti

Getting the ATL2 kernel module to work with Xen

2009-04-26 Thread Jeroen Steenbeeke
Hey everyone, I am having some problems with my server setup, and I'm starting to go crazy trying to figure this out. I want to use my computer to host a couple of Xen guests, but no matter what I do, I keep running into problems. I've tried 4 different versions of a certain popular Debian based d

Re: How to add a hibernate shortcut?

2009-04-26 Thread Michael Biebl
tchomby wrote: > Is there a way to add a one-click panel icon and/or keyboard shortcut to > hibernate the computer? > apt-get install gnome-power-manager -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Descriptio

Re: All locales in /usr/share/locale

2009-04-26 Thread Nuno Magalhães
>  dpkg-reconfigure locales > > Unselect the locales you don't want, then run localeourge again. That's the whole point: i've never selected all locales in the first place, only 2. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto -- To UNS

flash memory camcorder clips to dvd

2009-04-26 Thread Leonardo Canducci
I have some footage shoot with a jvc hcsd camcorder I'd like to put on a dvd. Every clip is stored as a .mod file that should be a standard mpeg-ps file with ac3 audio. Once renamed as .mpg each clip plays out of the box. I'd just like to: join all clips together and put the whole video on a dvd wi

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Raquel
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:00:15 -0700 prad wrote: > we use (and support) both, but i'd like to establish a rationale for > using one or the other. > > are there situations where debian is preferable (eg older hardware)? > are there situations where ubuntu is preferable (eg picking up newer > hardwa

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

2009-04-26 Thread Davide Mancusi
> > I have upgraded X to v1:7.4+1 and now I'm struggling with > > hal to reproduce the same configuration I had before. I managed to > > set up the keyboard layouts and the xkb options, but I can't find > > how to change the keyboard repeat rate. For the moment, I have > > created a policy file

Re: All locales in /usr/share/locale

2009-04-26 Thread s. keeling
Nuno Magalhães : > > Technicly, can i safely remove unused locales? I do use localepurge > (on the new system since isntall), but there don't seem to be included > in the process. dpkg-reconfigure locales Unselect the locales you don't want, then run localeourge again. -- Any technology

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> we use (and support) both, but i'd like to establish a rationale for > using one or the other. > are there situations where debian is preferable (eg older hardware)? > are there situations where ubuntu is preferable (eg picking up newer > hardware)? I my mind, the difference between the two is:

Re: Hal monitor detection, was hal documentation

2009-04-26 Thread Paul Scott
On Apr 25, 2009, at 2:58 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 08:35:18 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On Apr 25, 2009, at 2:02 AM, Paul Scott wrote: [...] So why can 'Xorg -configure' detect my monitor frequencies correctly and whatever Hal uses can't? get-edid doea correctly get

Re: HL-2070N Brother laser printer driver

2009-04-26 Thread Michael Osburn
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:54:34 -0400 "H.S." wrote: > Hello, > > Just wanted to report my experience with Brother network laser printer > HL-2070N. > > I was working with the drivers that come with Debian (cups?) till > around a several weeks ago. Then something broke (apparently in > ghostscript)

Re: shrink lvm to get spare space

2009-04-26 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 01:15:17PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Dear debian community, > > on on of my systems I have > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/debian-root > 224G 12G 200G 6% / > tmpfs1008M 8.0K 1008M

HL-2070N Brother laser printer driver

2009-04-26 Thread H.S.
Hello, Just wanted to report my experience with Brother network laser printer HL-2070N. I was working with the drivers that come with Debian (cups?) till around a several weeks ago. Then something broke (apparently in ghostscript) and it stopped working. I tried it yesterday and it is now working

Balsa not sending mails

2009-04-26 Thread Klistvud
Hi everyone! I'm using Balsa as my mail client and have noticed that whenever a mail can't be sent (e.g. when my internet connection is temporarily dead), Balsa puts it in the "Outgoing" folder - but then leaves it there forever. Can't Balsa be configured so as to send unsent mail at a later t

Re: Hal monitor detection, was hal documentation

2009-04-26 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 25. 04. 2009 17:35:18 je Paul Scott napisal(a): >Does Hal depend on some kind of database Yes, it does, AFAIK... -- Certifiable Loonix User 481801 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Extracting CD boot loaders

2009-04-26 Thread T o n g
Hi, Anyone know ways to extract the CD boot loaders under Linux? The reason that I'm asking is that, many .iso files come with size much less than 700M. So it would be a waste of CD spaces to burn them as-is -- I want to add more files to them (then pack them up again as iso) before burning th

shrink lvm to get spare space

2009-04-26 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, on on of my systems I have FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/debian-root 224G 12G 200G 6% / tmpfs1008M 8.0K 1008M 1% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 80K 10M 1% /dev tmpfs

Re: Bash Session

2009-04-26 Thread David Bernier
Kurian Thayil wrote: Hi All, Planning to give a small demo on BASH scripting in a LUG community. Audience will be school teachers and basic home users and thus are beginners. Thinking on how to present simple and some example scripts that will make them more interesting and love command line.

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-26 Thread JoeHill
Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> I don't know about their more recent consumer-grade offering but you may > >> want to take a look at Windows '98. When I got the laptop, it came with > >> a 20-page or so manual. But then considering the "capabilities" of the > >> OS that was probably overkill anyway. >

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

2009-04-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,26.Apr.09, 17:18:58, M. Henne wrote: > What could be the right package for the bug report? There's no package > kwin anymore. As long as there is file you know the name of (kwin) 'reportbug kwin' should find out the correct package (by using dpkg -S). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't ex

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread John Hasler
Miles Fidelman writes: > install from the upstream source I'd try installing from the Ubuntu source. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

2009-04-26 Thread M. Henne
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote in : > What version of kwin are you running, just for my information? mar...@asgard:~$ kwin --version Qt: 4.5.1 KDE: 4.2.2 (KDE 4.2.2) KWin: 4.2.2 (KDE 4.2.2) > I believe your X is set up correctly now. Perhaps you might have better > luck asking on a more KDE-spec

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Jeff Zhang
2009/4/26 Nuno Magalhães > 2009/4/26 Johan Grönqvist : > > I prefer debian whenever I want to use packages that (in ubuntu) belong > to > > the universe category. I find that in my personal experience, packages in > > debian main seem more reliable than ubuntu universe. > > > > I find that I rath

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
Robert Hodgins wrote: On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 16:11 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Slightly OT-ish, but if i want to install an Ubuntu package on Debian. should i use dpkg -i or alien? I wouldn't try to install an Ubuntu package on Debian. Ditto. I'd try: 1. look for the Debian vers

Re: How to add a hibernate shortcut?

2009-04-26 Thread machiner
Reply to: tcho...@googlemail.com Original Message Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:39:36 +0100 RE: How to add a hibernate shortcut? [See Original Message Below] How about this: http://www.debiantutorials.org/put-lenny-to-sleep-debian-gnulinux-lenny-308 - On Sun,

Re: dialing phone numbers: plus automatic dialing from address books?

2009-04-26 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: k...@heard.name >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: dialing phone numbers: plus automatic dialing from >address books? >Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:24:27 -0400 > >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>David Baron wrote: >> >> >> >>>

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Robert Hodgins
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 16:11 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Slightly OT-ish, but if i want to install an Ubuntu package on Debian. > should i use dpkg -i or alien? I wouldn't try to install an Ubuntu package on Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Nuno Magalhães
2009/4/26 Johan Grönqvist : > I prefer debian whenever I want to use packages that (in ubuntu) belong to > the universe category. I find that in my personal experience, packages in > debian main seem more reliable than ubuntu universe. > > I find that I rather often want to have some package instal

Re: How long will updates to Etch be available?

2009-04-26 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 16:51:09 +0200, Csanyi Pal (csanyi...@gmail.com) wrote: > deb http://ftp.debian.org lenny main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org lenny main contrib non-free These look wrong. I think you need to use http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ or better still a local mir

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Johan Grönqvist
prad skrev: we use (and support) both, but i'd like to establish a rationale for using one or the other. are there situations where debian is preferable (eg older hardware)? are there situations where ubuntu is preferable (eg picking up newer hardware)? I prefer debian whenever I want to use

Re: Bash Session

2009-04-26 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: kurianmtha...@gmail.com >To: sou...@gmail.com >Subject: Re: Bash Session >Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:59:11 +0530 > >>Hi Jeff, >> >>You are correct. Our state has implemented GNU/Linux in schools and >they use >>a customized Debian GNU/Linux for that. There mu

Re: How long will updates to Etch be available?

2009-04-26 Thread Csanyi Pal
Bob Cox writes: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:15:22 +0200, Csanyi Pal > (csanyi...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> Sjoerd Hardeman writes: >> >> > Siju George wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I understand that Once a release is made updates to the previous >> >> release will be made for an year more. >> >>

Re: IceApe on Lenny

2009-04-26 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Felix Miata wrote: > After reading http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2009/02/msg00411.html and > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511477 the current status of > IceApe is about as clear as Mud. It refused to install via apt-get, synapt

Re: dialing phone numbers: plus automatic dialing from address books?

2009-04-26 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Baron wrote: > If you are running KDE4, check out my phone plasmoid (kde-apps, kde-look). > This is fairly complete, call histories, quick-dials, local and akonadi > contacts, etc. Designed for speakerphone modem. However, changing the VLS

Re: How to add a hibernate shortcut?

2009-04-26 Thread Peter Beck
s2disk could be the tool you're searching for? On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 15:39 +0100, tchomby wrote: > Is there a way to add a one-click panel icon and/or keyboard shortcut to > hibernate the computer? > > I never normally want to shutdown, suspend (doesn't work), restart, lock > screen > or logou

Re: How to add a hibernate shortcut?

2009-04-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,26.Apr.09, 15:39:36, tchomby wrote: > Is there a way to add a one-click panel icon and/or keyboard shortcut to > hibernate the computer? > > I never normally want to shutdown, suspend (doesn't work), restart, lock > screen > or logout. So many options. It would be nice to just have a hib

Re: Bash Session

2009-04-26 Thread Andrew Reid
On Saturday 25 April 2009 22:24:15 Kurian Thayil wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > I guess parsing /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow file and sending an email > notification is a good one. But don't you think, that .bashrc concept and > inclusion of tasks in it will be quite confusing and complicated for a > begin

How to add a hibernate shortcut?

2009-04-26 Thread tchomby
Is there a way to add a one-click panel icon and/or keyboard shortcut to hibernate the computer? I never normally want to shutdown, suspend (doesn't work), restart, lock screen or logout. So many options. It would be nice to just have a hibernate button on the gnome panel and as a keyboard shor

Re: wget file name is too long

2009-04-26 Thread Erik Xavior
$ wget -tc '?' URL wget: --tries: Invalid number `c'. $ wget --trimcharacter '?' URL wget: unrecognized option `--trimcharacter' Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]... Try `wget --help' for more options. man wget says nothing about -tc my wget version: 1.11.4-2 "--content-disposition" still gives "

Re: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: XRRGetScreenResourcesCurrent

2009-04-26 Thread Gregor Galwas
Hi, and thx for the answer. The version is Debian Unstable x86_64 mcg...@pegasos:~$ ldd /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 | grep libXrandr libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x7f87d4fdc000) mcg...@pegasos:~$ dpkg -l libxrandr\* | awk '/^i/{print$1,$2,$3}' ii libxrandr-dev

Re: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: XRRGetScreenResourcesCurrent

2009-04-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:07:54 +0200, Gregor Galwas wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently updated X on my debian x86 system. Which version of Debian? > Now with every gtk application I want to use, I get > > symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: > XRRGetScreenResourcesC

Re: wget file name is too long

2009-04-26 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Erik Xavior wrote: > Hi! > > I've got a little script, what gives wget some URLs to download, the > URL-s are not soo long, but, the URL's are redirected, then they are > too long: > > wget $(script) > > Cannot write to > something?attredirects=0auth=ANoY7cqi24QEtZt9tVRYpcBnR5N5Y6sU0eERgXUdKmJCYKN7

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Thorny
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:40:47 -0500, Mark Allums posted: > paragasu wrote: >> ubuntu == debian testing, >> >> if you think debian outdated, try debian unstable. >> >> > > ubuntu = debian unstable Ubuntu=(a snapshot of Debian unstable at the time)!=Debian unstable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

wget file name is too long

2009-04-26 Thread Erik Xavior
Hi! I've got a little script, what gives wget some URLs to download, the URL-s are not soo long, but, the URL's are redirected, then they are too long: wget $(script) Cannot write to something?attredirects=0auth=ANoY7cqi24QEtZt9tVRYpcBnR5N5Y6sU0eERgXUdKmJCYKN7thBmfdghjfdsdo6ihFwUpTG1Wmtp4qjzZmwT

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
Paul Johnson wrote: Chris Jones wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 06:12:35AM EDT, Dotan Cohen wrote: Check out the FreeBSD handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is also available as a pdf which is >1000 pages! It doesn't cover everything, but it does

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

2009-04-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <75in79f18bn7...@mid.dfncis.de>, M. Henne wrote: >Thank you again for your patience. No problem. I like helping when I can. Unfortunately, I may have run out of advice. >Unfortunately I haven't made it so far, but I think I can >give a more detailed description of my systems behaviour. Tha

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-26 Thread Justin
> So is the problem caused by the fact windows does not support soft raid > 1 well? Windows does softraid1 fine, it just doesn't do it the same as Linux. ie. Windows won't mount a softraid made in Linux and Linux won't mount a softraid made in Windows.

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

2009-04-26 Thread M. Henne
Hoy Stephen, Thank you again for your patience. Unfortunately I haven't made it so far, but I think I can give a more detailed description of my systems behaviour. I've played a bit with the settings you told me and I noticed, that my system supports two monitors to some degree. E.g. I can te

symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: XRRGetScreenResourcesCurrent

2009-04-26 Thread Gregor Galwas
Hi, I recently updated X on my debian x86 system. Now with every gtk application I want to use, I get symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: XRRGetScreenResourcesCurrent (/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.s

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,26.Apr.09, 03:59:01, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > If you want a commercial support contract, go with Ubuntu and get support > from Canonical. > > I'm not saying you can't get commercial support for Debian, but that the > closest thing to Debian is the a legal entity is SPI, and I don

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,26.Apr.09, 17:58:43, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:10:02AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat,25.Apr.09, 07:59:23, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > > > Sorry I'm not working on Debian replying your posting. I can't check > > > the above steps for you which I dig out from my d

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090425110015.08fe4...@gom>, prad wrote: >we use (and support) both, but i'd like to establish a rationale for >using one or the other. All that follow is just my opinion, but I've tried to justify it so it may be the start of a rational process to guide the decision. If you want a commerci

Re: xen, guest won't start, "Hotplug scripts not working"

2009-04-26 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:18 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use xen for the first time.  This box is running a recent > install of Lenny. > > I've reading web howtos, the man pages and user.pdf, so it could be that I > am mixing and matching too much and not following the debian way, but her

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