Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

Hello *, I have noticed this issue with IceWeasel on my Unibody MacBook a few weeks ago: I thought that it was a misconfiguration, now I know it is ... expected. It sounds very crazy as browsers are very common tools. What I want to add is that with Safari everything looks fine: so apparently th

Re: Desktop Search Engines

* Kelly Clowers [090427 21:03]: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 20:17, Jeff Zhang wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rick wrote: > >> > >> What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine There was a thread discussing this last year: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/10/thrd

Re: how to play VOB files using xine?

Serge Khmelevsky wrote: > Hi, some VOB files has the menus and I cannot understand how to handle > such menus. > My favorite video player is xine, so I have googled how to handle DVD > menus with it and found something about libdvdcss and xine-dvdnav. I > cannot find these packages in the reposit

Re: Unable to use higher resolutions

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 22:15:55 -0400, Felix Miata (mrma...@ij.net) wrote: > On 2009/04/27 19:47 (GMT+0100) James Allsopp composed: > > > Section "Device" > > Identifier"Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2064W [Millennium]" > > Driver"mga" > > BusID"PCI:0:12:0" > > EndSe

Re: magic sysRq

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/4/27 green : >> Erik Xavior wrote at 2009-04-27 09:58 -0600: >>>    I recently read about "Magic SysRq"! wow :) >>> >>>    # sysctl -a | grep sysrq >>>    kernel.sysrq = 1 >>> >>>    But it doesn't reboot, when i press "AltGr+sysrq+b", wha

Re: how to check memory type?

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:01:56PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > http://www.intel.com/Products/Server/Motherboards/S5000PSL/S5000PSL-overview.htm > > >Eight fully buffered 533/667 MHz DIMMs Thanks Kelly, Now I understand motherboard type defines memory type. Regards, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSU

how to play VOB files using xine?

Hi, some VOB files has the menus and I cannot understand how to handle such menus. My favorite video player is xine, so I have googled how to handle DVD menus with it and found something about libdvdcss and xine-dvdnav. I cannot find these packages in the repository. Cheers, Serge. -- To UNSUBS

Re: error while loading shared libraries

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:34, Andrzej wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Lenny 64 and have problem with UPS software. There is no > debs, but script for so called other distros. I run it and seems to be ok. But > when I tried to run it i receive errror: "upsm: error while loading shared > librarie

Re: error while loading shared libraries

On 2009-04-28 03:34 +0200, Andrzej wrote: > I just installed Lenny 64 and have problem with UPS software. There is no > debs, but script for so called other distros. I run it and seems to be ok. But > when I tried to run it i receive errror: "upsm: error while loading shared > libraries: libstdc++

strange app start-up slowness

using lenny, some apps particularly gnome-terminal starts slowly 1s or more - new tabs here can take nearly 2s. emacs takes 1-2s on initial startup and then about 1s afterwards. (firefox starts slowly but new instances appear very quickly - so not a problem.) it is peculiar because the behaviour

Re: how to check memory type?

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 13:16, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:21:37PM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote: >> > From: Zhengquan Zhang [mailto:zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com] >> > Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 2:11 PM >> > Subject: how to check memory type? >> > >> > Dear debian community,

Re: Desktop Search Engines

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 20:17, Jeff Zhang wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rick wrote: >> >> What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine, >> since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files, >> would like to index all, including metadata... >> >> > > roll is my favour

Re: How to install X packages collectively

In <102841.80521...@web35202.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, Stephen Liu wrote: >Hi folks, > >Debian 5.0 minimal >No desktop > >What option shall be up to run either "apt-get install" or "aptitude >install" installing X packages collectively. Thanks. I'm not sure I'm understanding the question correctly. I

Re: Desktop Search Engines

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rick wrote: > What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine, > since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files, > would like to index all, including metadata... > > > roll is my favourite for such thing.

Re: Kernel failure

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Thamm, Russell wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed lenny under VirtualBox as I wanted to try a different > Linux distribution. > > When I logon to a Gnome session, I often get a popup saying: > > "Your system has had a kernel failure" > > It most often happens the

Butchered python configuration ...

Okay this is ungraceful entrance to this mailing list but I hope that someone can help. I seem to have butchered my default Python install somewhat. The server is running Debian 'etch' and I wanted to make python2.5 the default install so I decided to link python2.5 to python in /usr/bin ? But I wa

Re: Unable to use higher resolutions

On 2009/04/27 19:47 (GMT+0100) James Allsopp composed: > Section "Device" > Identifier"Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2064W [Millennium]" > Driver"mga" > BusID"PCI:0:12:0" > EndSection Does adding any of Option "NoDDC" Option "UseEDID" "false" O

error while loading shared libraries

Hi, I just installed Lenny 64 and have problem with UPS software. There is no debs, but script for so called other distros. I run it and seems to be ok. But when I tried to run it i receive errror: "upsm: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such

Kernel failure

Hi, I've just installed lenny under VirtualBox as I wanted to try a different Linux distribution. When I logon to a Gnome session, I often get a popup saying: "Your system has had a kernel failure" It most often happens the first time I logon using gnome after a boot. I don't get this if I sele

Substitute to mod_cband in Debian GNU/Linux Lenny

Hi all! According to I see, mod_cband is not more in the repositories of Debian Lenny [1]. There is some substitute that offers the same characteristics that mod_cband and that you can recommend to me? Looking for I found the package libapache2-mod-bw, But it seems that this it does not handle ov

How to install X packages collectively

Hi folks, Debian 5.0 minimal No desktop What option shall be up to run either "apt-get install" or "aptitude install" installing X packages collectively. Thanks. Further more; # cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debia

Re: debian and ubuntu

>> Installing for new Linux users, hardware that does not have good FOSS >> drivers, very tolerant community > > I can't say the situation is any better for Windows users in this > regard, especially video drivers.  At least Linux users are somewhat > less screwed in that they still have a machine

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009/4/27 Paul Johnson : > Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Maybe you forgot how great of an OS Win98 was at the time. > > It wasn't.  It was still a 32-bit multitasking hack sitting on top of > what amounted to a 16-bit version of an 8-bit single-tasking operating > system with no cohesive security control

Re: magic sysRq

2009/4/27 green : > Erik Xavior wrote at 2009-04-27 09:58 -0600: >>    I recently read about "Magic SysRq"! wow :) >> >>    # sysctl -a | grep sysrq >>    kernel.sysrq = 1 >> >>    But it doesn't reboot, when i press "AltGr+sysrq+b", what am I missing? :S >>    2.6.26-2-amd64 > > SysRq+b has never

Re: The size by default of the /usr partition is becoming too small

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:54:29PM +, c soize wrote: > > Dear sir Hello, > > I'm french user of Debian. Excuse my english. > > For several years, the size suggested during > the installation for the /usr partition has been 5 GigaByte (GB). > > However the softwares becomes increasingly lar

Re: The size by default of the /usr partition is becoming too small

Greetings, > I'm french user of Debian. Excuse my english. Your english is surely much better than most of this list's french. However, since very few speak an international neutral language, you should use this[1] list instead. > For several years, the size suggested during > the installation f

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

> Did you already try to start KDE for a "fresh" user? Yes, to no avail. > Strace suggests that the mouse and keyboard settings are saved in > ~/.kde/share/config/kcminputrc on my system. Do you have anything in > this file? My keyboard section in there looks like this: > [snip]

The size by default of the /usr partition is becoming too small

Dear sir Hello, I'm french user of Debian. Excuse my english. For several years, the size suggested during the installation for the /usr partition has been 5 GigaByte (GB). However the softwares becomes increasingly large: open office 3.01, Gimp 2.6, pidgin, Xsane, KDE 4.2.2 ,… The size by d

Re: magic sysRq

Le Monday 27 April 2009 17:58:10 Erik Xavior, vous avez écrit : > Hi > > I recently read about "Magic SysRq"! wow :) > > # sysctl -a | grep sysrq > kernel.sysrq = 1 > > But it doesn't reboot, when i press "AltGr+sysrq+b", what am I missing? :S > 2.6.26-2-amd64 > > Thank you! Here, it's Alt-Syst-b,

Re: web monitoring tool?

Le Friday 24 April 2009 07:38:18 Depo Catcher, vous avez écrit : > I'm looking for a web based monitoring tool. > > mrtg isn't supported any longer? > I tried rtg, but it seemed like it was really complex to setup. > > I just want a simple monitor that will graph cpu, memory, disk, etc. cacti cert

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 22:37:43 +0200, Davide Mancusi wrote: > > > > Right. As far as I can tell it's set in the WM/DE (for Xfce: Menu > > > > -> Settings -> Keyboard: Behaviour tab). > > > > > > ...but KDE4.2 doesn't have it. Grrr. > > > > Kickoff Menu > Computer > System Settings > Keyboard

[solved, Thanks!]Re: how to check memory type?

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:21:37PM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > From: Zhengquan Zhang [mailto:zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 2:11 PM > > Subject: how to check memory type? > > > > Dear debian community, > > > > I was looking for commands to check detailed memory

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

> > > Right. As far as I can tell it's set in the WM/DE (for Xfce: Menu > > > -> Settings -> Keyboard: Behaviour tab). > > > > ...but KDE4.2 doesn't have it. Grrr. > > Kickoff Menu > Computer > System Settings > Keyboard & Mouse > > Keyboard > > should have an "Enable keyboard repeat" checkb

Re: will this one work?

> It is generally frowned on to change the topic of a conversation because > it can mess up people trying to follow a thread. Just so you know later > on. > > According to Intels website [1] you need ECC Fully Buffered memory. > > According to Kingstons website these [2] are the memory modules yo

RE: will this one work?

> From: Zhengquan Zhang [mailto:zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 3:20 PM > Subject: will this one work? > > http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1068675#TS > > Will this one work? > > Now I think the only info I still do not have is whether the memory we > a

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 20:05:20 +0200, 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). > > ...but KDE4.2 doesn't

will this one work?

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1068675#TS Will this one work? Now I think the only info I still do not have is whether the memory we are using is fully buffered or not. Is there any means to decode that? Thank you very much! -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: how to check memory type?

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:21:37PM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > From: Zhengquan Zhang [mailto:zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 2:11 PM > > Subject: how to check memory type? > > > > Dear debian community, > > > > I was looking for commands to check detailed memory

Re: how to check memory type?

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:33:11PM -0300, Claudio wrote: > Hi Zhengquan, > > I expect that command hope this help. > > dmidecode -t 16 Now I know it is ECC. But I still don't know if it is fully buffered. Thanks for your reply! here is the out put

Re: how to check memory type?

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:47:52PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > I expect that command hope this help. > > > > dmidecode -t 16 > > I think "dmidecode -t 17" is what is needed. Now I know it is ddr2 but I still don't know if it is fully buffered or ECC. the motherboard from 'lshw' is intel S5

Re: Re: how to check memory type?

decode-dimms might be what you look for jv -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: magic sysRq

Erik Xavior wrote at 2009-04-27 09:58 -0600: >I recently read about "Magic SysRq"! wow :) > ># sysctl -a | grep sysrq >kernel.sysrq = 1 > >But it doesn't reboot, when i press "AltGr+sysrq+b", what am I missing? :S >2.6.26-2-amd64 SysRq+b has never worked for me, but SysRq+s (

Re: Desktop Search Engines

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:30, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:43, Rick wrote: >> What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine, >> since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files, >> would like to index all, including metadata... > > I have not used any of the

Re: how to check memory type?

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:11, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Dear debian community, > > I was looking for commands to check detailed memory info. (not usage > info but type and manufacturer info). I have no idea what memory type > our server is using and we want to add more rams to it. > > Particularly

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

On 2009-Apr-24, at 5:20 AM, Klistvud wrote: Your parallel with "unregistered aliens" is extremely malaprop, even more so in the context of an operating system that professes to be the _universal_ operating system. Almost every country defines a legal immigration process and considers peop

Re: Desktop Search Engines

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:43, Rick wrote: > What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine, > since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files, > would like to index all, including metadata... I have not used any of them extensively, but from playing around with Beagle and Tracke

Re: how to check memory type?

Hi Zhengquan, I expect that command hope this help. dmidecode -t 16 Have Fun Claudio. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Dear debian community, > > I was looking for commands to check detailed memory info. (not usage > info but type and manufacturer info). I have no idea

Re: xmodmap

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:07:03 +, marc wrote: > > I'm trying to use the following local .xmodmaprc > > keycode 26 = e E e E eacute Eacute > keycode 31 = i I i I iacute Iacute > keycode 32 = o O o O oacute Oacute > keycode 30 = u U u U uacute Uacute > keycode 57 = n N n N ntil

RE: how to check memory type?

> From: Zhengquan Zhang [mailto:zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 2:11 PM > Subject: how to check memory type? > > Dear debian community, > > I was looking for commands to check detailed memory info. (not usage > info but type and manufacturer info). I have no idea what me

Postfix Transport Maps and MXs Ignored After Upgrade to Lenny

I just upgraded from etch to lenny and my previously working postfix transport map seems to now be ignored under postfix 2.5.5-1.1. Messages that used to be relayed successfully are now rejected with "Relay access denied." Also, messages addressed to any machines whose MX points to this serve

how to check memory type?

Dear debian community, I was looking for commands to check detailed memory info. (not usage info but type and manufacturer info). I have no idea what memory type our server is using and we want to add more rams to it. Particularly I don't know whether it is DDR or DDR2 or DDR3 and i would like t

mozilla-acroread installation bug fixed

Hello, all: I've just had a frustrating time trying to upgrade mozilla-acroread from version 8 to version 9, and thought I'd report the fix. The file /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-acroread.postinst has a line which reads PLUGIN=/usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so That 'Reader8' shou

Re: cannot eject a DVD disc

It might be a problem of package "eject". From time to time an upgrade of this package changes the permissions of /usr/bin/eject to 750 (root:root), but should be 755 (root:root) Good luck! Hans

Unable to use higher resolutions

Hi, I'm using Debian Lenny on older hardware with XFCE, but I can only get a choice of the default (seems to be about 800x600) and 320x256. I'd ideally want 1024x768, but if anyone has any suggestions I'd be really grateful. I've included my xorg.conf, which contains all of the higher resolutions.

Re: web monitoring tool?

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 08:58:47AM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > From: Depo Catcher [mailto:depocatc...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 12:38 AM > > Subject: web monitoring tool? > > > > I'm looking for a web based monitoring tool. > > > > mrtg isn't supported any longer? > > I t

Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

On 2009/04/27 16:50 (GMT+0200) Klistvud composed: > Thanx 2 all 4 answering and clearing that out. Now I'm beginning to > understand a bit more! ;) > @ Felix Miata: yes, my DPI does differ from the "average"; as indicated > by your html pages (as well as by xdpyinfo|grep resol), my DPI is 129

shutdown firewall

Hi How to shut down a firewall "officaly"? Related to this: url

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

Dotan Cohen wrote: > Maybe you forgot how great of an OS Win98 was at the time. It wasn't. It was still a 32-bit multitasking hack sitting on top of what amounted to a 16-bit version of an 8-bit single-tasking operating system with no cohesive security controls. It was obsolete when it was stil

Re: Anyone using the CAD packages?

Alan Shutko wrote: > Aryan Ameri writes: > >> Well, I always thought that AutoCAD was the equivalent of Windows in the >> CAD world. And I thought that for more professinal stuff ( i.e >> designing BMW cars) businesses use more sophisticated products (which >> again I always thought) run on Un

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

> > 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). ...but KDE4.2 doesn't have it. Grrr. Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like

Re: debian and ubuntu

Dotan Cohen wrote: >> 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)? >> > > Installin

magic sysRq

Hi I recently read about "Magic SysRq"! wow :) # sysctl -a | grep sysrq kernel.sysrq = 1 But it doesn't reboot, when i press "AltGr+sysrq+b", what am I missing? :S 2.6.26-2-amd64 Thank you!

Re: xmodmap

Klistvud said: > It might be that those keystrokes (AltGR) are "dead" in your currently > configured keyboard. I'm > fairly new to Linux so I'm not able to help you here; all I know is > keyboards get configured via HAL now and the HAL database is not as > complete as we would all wish it to be. I

Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

Klistvud wrote: > On my laptop, those fonts appear extremely small: so far, my only way > of permanently correcting this has been to increase the > "smallest font" in Iceweasel to around 14. Is there a smarter/simpler > way? You can try the nosquint firefox extension. "NoSquint allows you to a

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

> They call it progress.  95% of what I do with my computer is the same as > what I did on my 486.  "Progress" means that I now need a computer a > thousand times more powerful with five-hundred times more drive space to > do exactly the same thing. > +5 Insightful > I would be very happy with De

Re: Desktop Search Engines

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:43:42PM -0400, Rick wrote: > What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine, > since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files, > would like to index all, including metadata... > > > Thanks! > Rick > I used Beagle for a while. You can customize it a

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

> Especially when the problem is that the computer won't boot, or can't > get on the internet to run google... > Keep a LiveCD handy. It's gotten me at least far enough to Google what I need at least three times in recent memory. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

> On a 650Mhz with 384 MiB RAM laptop, Windows 98 was NOT "flying" by any > stretch of the imagination.. it was.. hmm.. tolerably sluggish. Unless > you went crazy & started opening windows by the handful, of course. > > If you did, MTBF was about two hours. > I have seen it run very well on much

Desktop Search Engines

What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine, since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files, would like to index all, including metadata... Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

> Honestly, I thought Dotan wrote the above in jest and forget the ":-)". > > I certainly did not post in earnest. > I meant it. Two years ago I had to maintain a Win98 machine that ran some library software - nothing else, no internet - on 64 MB RAM on a 433 MHz processor. The thing flew. It woul

Re: Hal monitor detection, was hal documentation

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 22:07:22 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > 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' d

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

In <49f5c5dc.8070...@meetinghouse.net>, Miles Fidelman wrote: >- for Debian, the documentation page (http://debian.org/doc/), lists a >reference manual (http://debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/), detailed >maintainer and developer references, and pointers to general Linux >manuals for Linux Install

Re: Looking for Advice on Debian Server Setup

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:19:07AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > For security reasons, /tmp, /home, /var/tmp, and anywhere else a normal user > can create new files should be a separate mount point I agree. It's good practice to have at least /var and /tmp on seperate partitions. Much ea

Re: wget file name is too long

yes, thank you, thats it!! the script, that was giving URL's to the wget, is from an older mailing list archive, it get's the url's out of an html file, in my case it's a wget-ed sites.google.com" html file: for URL in $(perl -ne 'print "$1\n" while (/href=\"(.+?)\"/ig)' site.html | grep "attredi

Re: voip that works on linux and windows

MList wrote: > Is there some program that can run on both linux and windows that provide > voip (and perhaps video) other than Skype? > I do not want to use Skype because of some bad comment that I read > about it. > > Martin Have a look at this link and you'll get loads. I limited this to sip cl

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

Miles Fidelman wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Miles Fidelman wrote: >> >>> There's still something awfully useful and compelling about a serious >>> reference manual, all in one place, with a comprehensive >>> table-of-contents, detailed index, and embedded references. >>> >> >> Sure there is, but

Re: xmodmap

It might be that those keystrokes (AltGR) are "dead" in your currently configured keyboard. I'm fairly new to Linux so I'm not able to help you here; all I know is keyboards get configured via HAL now and the HAL database is not as complete as we would all wish it to be. I suspect some keyboard

Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

Thanx 2 all 4 answering and clearing that out. Now I'm beginning to understand a bit more! ;) @ Felix Miata: yes, my DPI does differ from the "average"; as indicated by your html pages (as well as by xdpyinfo|grep resol), my DPI is 129 (it's a laptop widescreen LCD). Thanx also for refreshing

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

H.S. wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: There's still something awfully useful and compelling about a serious reference manual, all in one place, with a comprehensive table-of-contents, detailed index, and embedded references. Sure there is, but one has to keep the audience in mind. A beginn

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:10:13AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > H.S. wrote: > >Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:27:24AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >Now a days google is a *huge* help in this. > > > There's still something awfully useful and compelling about a serious

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

Miles Fidelman wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:27:24AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> >>> Document it all you want. But don't expect Joe Toothbrush to read it all. If one _wants_ go through pages upon pages of docs to create so

Re: Looking for Advice on Debian Server Setup

In , Mark Phillips wrote: >I am setting up a new server for Plone/Zope sites on a Linode VPS. Reading >the "Securing Debian Manual" (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing- >debian-howto/), it recommends separate partitions for /tmp, /home, /opt, and >/var. I was talking with some of the Linod

Re: Update-alternatives questions

> Paul E Condon: > > I can't find a way to simply list the link groups, or a way to learn > > what packages actually use/set which each link group. On 14.04.09 10:03, Jochen Schulz wrote: > "ls /etc/alternatives" shows all the link groups on your system. It > doesn't say which package uses which l

Re: Getting the ATL2 kernel module to work with Xen

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 08:27:04AM +0200, Jeroen Steenbeeke wrote: > 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 > No problem, gla

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

> From: Klistvud [mailto:quotati...@aliceadsl.fr] > Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:28 AM > Subject: Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8) > > Dne, 24. 04. 2009 13:26:21 je Nuno Magalhães napisal(a): > > Agreed, yet there's a techical question in there. What's your take? I

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:27:24AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Document it all you want. But don't expect Joe Toothbrush to read it all. If one _wants_ go through pages upon pages of docs to create something new, that's great and the more the merrier.

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:57:40AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > I'm one to read the 1000 page book cover-to-cover. That way, I'll > > rememeber a significant amount and know exactly where to look when I > > need something I don't remember. > > Now a days google is a *huge*

RE: web monitoring tool?

> From: Depo Catcher [mailto:depocatc...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 12:38 AM > Subject: web monitoring tool? > > > I'm looking for a web based monitoring tool. > > mrtg isn't supported any longer? > I tried rtg, but it seemed like it was really complex to setup. > > I just want a

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:27:24AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Document it all you want. But don't expect Joe Toothbrush to read it >> all. If one _wants_ go through pages upon pages of docs to create >> something new, that's great and the more the merrier. But if one

Re: Bash Session

> The CL really shines with complex tasks, and this is where people's eyes glaze > over. For example, I convert a directory of .wav files to .mp3 files on a I think of it more that the cl shines when doing multi-step tasks. "Find all the .odt files on the hard drive" is just as easy through gui o

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:09:28PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:03:21AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > I don't keep a backup server in the safety deposit box :), I keep the > > backup media. In this case, big USB stick (hard drives don't fit and > > This opens

Re: Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 07:51:06PM +0100, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: > I have this old laptop laying around. Currently is has no CD drive and > i'd hate to rely on floppies. It does have a working PCMCIA eth card > and a minimal OpenBSD that sees my LAN. > > I can't access its BIOS and i doubt it has

Looking for Advice on Debian Server Setup

I am setting up a new server for Plone/Zope sites on a Linode VPS. Reading the "Securing Debian Manual" (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing- debian-howto/), it recommends separate partitions for /tmp, /home, /opt, and /var. I was talking with some of the Linode folks on IRC to find out how

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:27:24AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Document it all you want. But don't expect Joe Toothbrush to read it > all. If one _wants_ go through pages upon pages of docs to create > something new, that's great and the more the merrier. But if one > _must_ go through the docs t

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 01:10:15PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Maybe you forgot how great of an OS Win98 was at the time. > > This has to be a joke. Win 98 wasn't even an operating system. It was an > application that ran on top of DOS for pete's sake. > > > That was a differ

Re: USB PCI card to buy: [SOLVED] Startech PCI625USB2I

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:01:40AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:52:41PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > It's been a _long_ time since I've had a problem with a PCI USB card. > > If nobody pipes up with a negative, then I'd suggest that you give it > > a shot. The odds a

Compiling kernal mailing list

I am looking for another email group that discusses custom compiling the kernel. I am interested in discussions about the pros and cons of setting or removing various options to optimize the kernel for particular systems. That doesn't seem an appropriate topic for this list so I was looking for

Re: server memory & swap eaten up then freaks out

Hi Pete, On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:33 +0100, Pete Boyd wrote: > I have a mail and Samba PDC server that, after a couple of days, runs out > of RAM then swap then freaks out with oom killer kicking in, at which > point it becomes very unresponsive and needs rebooting. > > Does anyone have any ideas

Re: VNC Server?

Depo Catcher wrote: > uh, ok. Thanks > > Why didn't aptitude find it? > Because you're not using the version in experimental :) the versions currently in <=sid default to searching on package name only. This changes in the experimental version where the search parameters change. I almost always

Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

On 2009/04/27 13:48 (GMT+0200) Klistvud composed: > I bet all Iceweasel (or FireFox, for that matter) users have noticed > this. > Iceweasel/FireFox fonts are waaay smaller than your desktop fonts. For > example, if you limit the smallest font in Iceweasel to the size of > your menu/desktop/GU

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