Re: OT Picture in Web Page Problem

2009-06-06 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, ghe wrote: I see where somebody already corrected the scr/src oopsie. An > that knows a little about HTML would have caught that for you. Bluefish on Linux or BBEdit on the Mac are a couple I use. There are billions and billions... A better one of which, of course, is GNU Em

Re: What packages work like: DVDFab and / or ConvertXtoDvd under Debian?

2009-06-06 Thread JoeHill
StOrM3 wrote: > The only thing stopping me from dropping Micro$haft all together is that I > use these programs faithfully on a regular basis. I need a good DVD > Ripping / Converting application that is graphical based like DVDFab, so I > don't have to figure out which switches to use, etc.. f

gnome login sound status

2009-06-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
After having installed gnome-audio a friend went into the preferences sound area of gnome and found sound themes were grayed out. is there some reason gnome hasn't yet got available sound themes from which to choose? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: squeeze grep status

2009-06-06 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Jude DaShiell wrote: Apparently argument list too long is an operating system error. I made it happen with ed too. I can divide and conquer though by limiting argument lists with regular expressions in this case. Does `find . -name REGEXP -exec COMMAND` help? See man find

Re: How to improve performance on laptop?

2009-06-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Michael Yang wrote: >Hi, > > [...] >fine, although some problems happened and got fixed. (Now is Lenny, >2.6.24, Xfce4). The system has been very stable, but just with performance >issues now. The time to start the system is OK (usually about 22secs in >bootchart). The

Re: What packages work like: DVDFab and / or ConvertXtoDvd under Debian?

2009-06-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/6/7 StOrM3 > Hello, > > The only thing stopping me from dropping Micro$haft all together is that I > use these programs faithfully on a regular basis. I need a good DVD > Ripping / Converting application that is graphical based like DVDFab, so I > don't have to figure out which switches t

Re: mp4 video file to mp3 audio file

2009-06-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 18:20, ronggui wong wrote: > Dear all, > > Thanks for your response. I find that the output is mp2 if I use > ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.mp3. Of course, I can use lame to further > convert the mp2 file to mp3. How can I achieve the same mp3 by one > command? > > I tried add

Re: MySQL admin qref?

2009-06-06 Thread debian
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:41:10 -0600 "s. keeling" wrote: > Incoming from Robert Baron: > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:13 PM, s. keeling > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi. I'm trying to config mysql. I've done this before, and it > > > worked well, and I took notes, but they're not helping at the > > > mom

Re: squeeze the whole grep suite is broken

2009-06-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Interesting! I was one with wrong idea for the root cause. On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 07:49:18PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 12:01:35 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > rgrep throws the same argument list too long error as did grep. > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/60

Re: squeeze grep is broken

2009-06-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 11:57:56AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I tried a command line like: grep -in "print-installation-architecture" * > | less and got me a surprise. I was in /var/lib/dpkg/info when I > did this and was curious to know what other scripts might have that > deprecated comma

mdadm on lenny64, why two spares?

2009-06-06 Thread whollygoat
Can anyone tell me why the following command creates 2 spares instead of just one? # mdadm -C /dev/md0 -v -e1 -l5 -b internal \ -n3 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdg1 /dev/hdi1 \ -x1 /dev/hdk1 --name FileServ -a yes # mdadm -D /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 01.00 Creation Time : Sat Jun 6 19:34:29

Re: OT Picture in Web Page Problem

2009-06-06 Thread ghe
Thomas H. George wrote: > My first try at web page design. Installed Apache2, tried > http://dragon.zoo/index.html and it worked. Created an html file: > > > > the right direction I would really > appreciate it. I see where somebody already corrected the scr/src oopsie. An editor that knows a l

Re: OT Picture in Web Page Problem

2009-06-06 Thread Steve Reilly
Thomas H. George wrote: > My first try at web page design. Installed Apache2, tried > http://dragon.zoo/index.html and it worked. Created an html file: > > > > > Weekday Skiers > > > > http://www.cnn.com";>CNN > > > and got a gray 300x500 box. > > Clearly I need to pose th

OT Picture in Web Page Problem

2009-06-06 Thread Thomas H. George
My first try at web page design. Installed Apache2, tried http://dragon.zoo/index.html and it worked. Created an html file: Weekday Skiers http://www.cnn.com";>CNN and got a gray 300x500 box. Clearly I need to pose this question to a more apropriate user group but which

Re: mp4 video file to mp3 audio file

2009-06-06 Thread ronggui wong
Dear all, Thanks for your response. I find that the output is mp2 if I use ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.mp3. Of course, I can use lame to further convert the mp2 file to mp3. How can I achieve the same mp3 by one command? I tried add the command mentioned by Sjoerd, but it says "Unknown encoder 'li

Re: [OT] Hosting a DNS

2009-06-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 03.06.09 21:23, GNUbie wrote: What do you think is the main reason or the importance of hosting your own DNS when your ISP and/or Domain Registrar can host it for you for FREE? direct access to the zones, ability to change it whenever you want. However

Re: MySQL admin qref?

2009-06-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Robert Baron: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:13 PM, s. keeling wrote: > > > > Hi. I'm trying to config mysql. I've done this before, and it worked > > well, and I took notes, but they're not helping at the moment. I > > haven't tried everything yet, and I'd rather come up with a plan

[Solved] Re: up-to-date Sid, Need help with xorg.conf

2009-06-06 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So trying to make the VGA input on a Sharp TV work, we have the following: Using these elements from Wayne Topa: On Friday 05 June 2009 Wayne Topa wrote: > The DFP is for an LCD. > > Section "Device" ... > Option "Metamodes" "1680x1050,

debian squeeze gnome-orca status

2009-06-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
A sighted friend came over and left a few minutes ago. We managed to get gnome up and me logged in and managed to get vlc to play sound files on the computer. When we ran orca though orca wouldn't talk even after preferences were set to have it talking after login. This is either an orca pro

Re: GOsa LDAP Admin

2009-06-06 Thread gn643202
> On 06/06/2009, Tony Asnicar wrote: >> Did anyone use it/heard about GOsa? Are there "negative" experiences about >> it? >> https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/ >> from: >> https://oss.gonicus.de/ >> I read about it here: >> http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1257249&cid=28214801 >> Thanks f

MySQL admin qref?

2009-06-06 Thread s. keeling
Hi. I'm trying to config mysql. I've done this before, and it worked well, and I took notes, but they're not helping at the moment. I haven't tried everything yet, and I'd rather come up with a plan than work from flawed notes. On Debian, how do you set the mysql root user pword? I've tried my

Re: mailining list deactivate

2009-06-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> >>> Hey, I notice that that appears at the bottom of only some messages. > >>> What would cause that (cause it not to appear for some message)? > >>> HTML mail? On 04.06.09 14:36, Paul Johnson wrote: > Though there's no reason that the list couldn't tag on another text part > with the unsubscrib

Re: Replacing a Debian package with the original source package

2009-06-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 03.06.09 19:16, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > In my Debian system I have Mplayer that came with Debian and want to > replace with its svn version, recommended by Mplayer developers. > > What shall I do in order to remove the old one? Will an `apt-get purge' > be enough? Or just remove the binary fi

Re: [OT] Hosting a DNS

2009-06-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 03.06.09 21:23, GNUbie wrote: > What do you think is the main reason or the importance of hosting your > own DNS when your ISP and/or Domain Registrar can host it for you for > FREE? direct access to the zones, ability to change it whenever you want. However applies even if you run the primary

Re: Howto make ipip tunnel?

2009-06-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 02.06.09 02:45, EQMaker wrote: > I'm trying to make a 'IPIP Tunnel' between 2 linux-boxes > > What should I study to make IPIP-Tunnel? google ;) > This is my plan. > > [Side A] - Client > eth0 : 192.168.154.1 (A-side local) > eth1 : 121.131.132.32 (to Side B / real IP for ex.) > ipip1 : 10

Re: apt-get update -f

2009-06-06 Thread Nuno Magalhães
>From the manpage: -f, --fix-broken -f is poitnless for apt-get update, it's only usefull for apt-get install -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

apt-get update -f

2009-06-06 Thread Tony Asnicar
does "apt-get update -f" has any effects? I couldn't find it in "man apt-get" :S:O thanks

can't get printer to work after dist upgrade

2009-06-06 Thread John O Laoi
I solved this one. The following were the steps: $ wget -O foo2zjs.tar.gz http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz $ tar zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz cd foo2zjz make make install make install install-hotplug make install cups RESTART CUPS:/etc/init.d/cups restart In CUPS, I has to do the follo

Re: What to do with "bugs forever" ?

2009-06-06 Thread Don Armstrong
First off, owner@ is for reporting problems with the bug tracking system, not discussing outcomes related to bugs. On Sat, 06 Jun 2009, Debian wrote: > here are two bugs that exists for years and where no solution is in > sight: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252896 > and >

What packages work like: DVDFab and / or ConvertXtoDvd under Debian?

2009-06-06 Thread StOrM3
Hello, The only thing stopping me from dropping Micro$haft all together is that I use these programs faithfully on a regular basis. I need a good DVD Ripping / Converting application that is graphical based like DVDFab, so I don't have to figure out which switches to use, etc.. from a command

Re: mp4 video file to mp3 audio file

2009-06-06 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi, ronggui wong writes: > I have some MTV in *.mp4 format, and I would to convert them to mp3 > format. What software should I use? > I try ffmpeg using ffmpeg -i in.mp4 out.mp3, but it seems something > goes wrong as I can not play the out.mp3 with audacious player. I do it this way: mplay

HP 550 NA950EA

2009-06-06 Thread pch0317
Hi I would like to buy a notebook HP 550 NA950EA. Can I install debian testing on it? If yes, all hardware (especially wireless card and internet camera) work correctly? Thanks pch0317 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: GOsa LDAP Admin

2009-06-06 Thread Gavin Henry
It's good, but it needs to add attributes and schemas of it's own, so might be suitable for an existing directory server. On 06/06/2009, Tony Asnicar wrote: > Did anyone use it/heard about GOsa? Are there "negative" experiences about > it? > https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/ > from: > https://oss

Re: Printing to HP Deskjet 940c

2009-06-06 Thread Wayne Topa
lrhorer wrote: I have CUPS setup under Debian "Lenny" an an AMD Athlon 64 x 2 CPU with 4G of RAM. I cannot get the system to print to my HP Deskjet 940c printer attached via USB. The system says it sees the printer, What in the system sees the printer, the cups interface (http://localhost:63

Samba problem

2009-06-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
All of a sudden (ie. I can't think of anything that changed.) samba on one linux machine is not working. One symptom is: dgwicks:~# smbclient -L joyce Connection to joyce failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED) another is: dgwicks:~# mount //joyce/edrv mount error 111 = Connection refu

Re: To download only difference between installed version of a package and its new version

2009-06-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-06-06 19:33 +0200, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:08, Sthu Deus wrote: >> Is it possible for any package manager to download only difference between >> installed version of a package and its new version? > > I believe rpm recently grew a delta-rpm ability, but it is not

Re: Strange printing problem(s) (SOLVED)

2009-06-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Andrew Malcolmson wrote: Wayne Topa-4 wrote: Has anyone got a clue as to where I should look? Perhaps: sudo aptitude purge cups #check for any cups packages left and purge them if any are found sudo aptitude search cups~i #Search your user's home folder for any remaining cups settings

Re: AltGr broken in GTK apps (?) since yesterday's upgrade

2009-06-06 Thread MRH
Davide Mancusi wrote: Running Sid. I upgraded some 400 packages yesterday and since then the AltGr key has stopped working in some applications, notably Iceweasel and Claws Mail (i.e. the applications I use 90% of the time, of course). Specifically, when I press AltGr + any key, nothing h

Re: squeeze the whole grep suite is broken

2009-06-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 12:01:35 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > rgrep throws the same argument list too long error as did grep. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6060 -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: mp4 video file to mp3 audio file

2009-06-06 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
ronggui wong: > I have some MTV in *.mp4 format, and I would to convert them to mp3 > format. What software should I use? > I try ffmpeg using ffmpeg -i in.mp4 out.mp3, but it seems something > goes wrong as I can not play the out.mp3 with audacious player. Never tried it myself, but AFAIK it goes

Re: google cal issues, questions re: epiphany, iceweasel, iceowl

2009-06-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 06:37, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I suppose there are 2 issues here...or more...I'm bad at math. > > First, no amount of cache clearing, etc., is allowing me to view my google > calendar in iceweasel. > I've tried to view it in lynx, elinks and w3m, all to no avail, as I might >

Re: flash drive encryption between different OS's

2009-06-06 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 04:52:40PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > I recently went down the same path and settled on LUKS on Linux and > FreeOTFE on Windows XP. I wrote a couple of HOWTO's that should get you > started: > > http://www.holger

Re: Printing to HP Deskjet 940c

2009-06-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 23:37, lrhorer wrote: > I have CUPS setup under Debian "Lenny" an an AMD Athlon 64 x 2 CPU with 4G > of RAM.  I cannot get the system to print to my HP Deskjet 940c printer > attached via USB.  The system says it sees the printer, and the driver > seems to be properly instal

Re: mp4 video file to mp3 audio file

2009-06-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 09:14, ronggui wong wrote: > Dear all, > > I have some MTV in *.mp4 format, and I would to convert them to mp3 > format. What software should I use? > I try ffmpeg using ffmpeg -i in.mp4 out.mp3, but it seems something > goes wrong as I can not play the out.mp3 with audaciou

Re: flash drive encryption between different OS's

2009-06-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 07:35, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:58:33PM -0400, Daryl Styrk wrote: >> I'm looking for a solution to encrypt a flash drive formated in FAT32 so >> it can easily be decrypted across multiple OS's with the least amount of >> software needed. > > I don

Re: squeeze grep status

2009-06-06 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Apparently argument list too long is an operating system error.  I made it > happen with ed too.  I can divide and conquer though by limiting argument > lists with regular expressions in this case. That's always an option, or you could use xar

Re: What to do with "bugs forever" ?

2009-06-06 Thread Debian
Hello, > Hello, > > Please, reply to mailing-list, so it's useful for others too. Yes i do this now. > On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 18:12 +0200, Karsten wrote: >> Frank Lin PIAT schrieb: >> > On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 17:06 +0200, Debian wrote: >> > >> > > here are two bugs that exists for years and where

Re: To download only difference between installed version of a package and its new version

2009-06-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:08, Sthu Deus wrote: > Is it possible for any package manager to download only difference between > installed version of a package and its new version? I believe rpm recently grew a delta-rpm ability, but it is not the default, and it hardly helps dpkg/apt users. Cheer

Re: make evo & epiphany play nice, but not system wide prefs, and no gnome

2009-06-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 09:49, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Hi, > > I would like Evolution and Epiphany to play nice together, like a suite > (like iceweasel and icedove can), or something, wherein Evolution sends > links to open in a new tab in Epiphany, and Epiphany uses Evo for mailto: > links, etc. >

Re: changing to UTF-8

2009-06-06 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 06:08:01PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > I still see characters such as hyphens > (-), boldface pipes, and single quotes rendered as â (circumflex-a) in my > terminal windows. If I set LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1, then the characters are > shown correctly. Your locale setup

Re: squeeze grep is broken

2009-06-06 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I tried a command line like: grep -in "print-installation-architecture" * | > less and got me a surprise.  I was in /var/lib/dpkg/info when I did I don't think this is a bug at all. When you do the command, the shell is trying to expand the f

make evo & epiphany play nice, but not system wide prefs, and no gnome

2009-06-06 Thread Tony Baldwin
Hi, I would like Evolution and Epiphany to play nice together, like a suite (like iceweasel and icedove can), or something, wherein Evolution sends links to open in a new tab in Epiphany, and Epiphany uses Evo for mailto: links, etc. The thing is, I'm not using gnome, and don't want to set Epi

squeeze grep status

2009-06-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
Apparently argument list too long is an operating system error. I made it happen with ed too. I can divide and conquer though by limiting argument lists with regular expressions in this case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

squeeze the whole grep suite is broken

2009-06-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
rgrep throws the same argument list too long error as did grep. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

squeeze grep is broken

2009-06-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
I tried a command line like: grep -in "print-installation-architecture" * | less and got me a surprise. I was in /var/lib/dpkg/info when I did this and was curious to know what other scripts might have that deprecated command in them. Grep responded with an undocumented error of argument lis

mp4 video file to mp3 audio file

2009-06-06 Thread ronggui wong
Dear all, I have some MTV in *.mp4 format, and I would to convert them to mp3 format. What software should I use? I try ffmpeg using ffmpeg -i in.mp4 out.mp3, but it seems something goes wrong as I can not play the out.mp3 with audacious player. Ronggui -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: What to do with "bugs forever" ?

2009-06-06 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 17:06 +0200, Debian wrote: > > here are two bugs that exists for years and where no solution is in sight: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252896 > and > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=518815 > > What can be done with such problems that

Re: What to do with "bugs forever" ?

2009-06-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/6/6 Debian : > Hello, > > here are two bugs that exists for years and where no solution is in sight: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252896 > and > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=518815 > > What can be done with such problems that will be not solved and a

What to do with "bugs forever" ?

2009-06-06 Thread Debian
Hello, here are two bugs that exists for years and where no solution is in sight: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252896 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=518815 What can be done with such problems that will be not solved and are ONLY existing in Debian? Her

GOsa LDAP Admin

2009-06-06 Thread Tony Asnicar
Did anyone use it/heard about GOsa? Are there "negative" experiences about it? https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/ from: https://oss.gonicus.de/ I read about it here: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1257249&cid=28214801 Thanks for any comments, opinions

Re: Suggestion for a mail package

2009-06-06 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:55:27 -0600, ghe in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > Mag Gam wrote: > >> We are planning to run an email server at my university. We would like >> to use something that has a nice Web based gui for its configuration. >> Does anyone have any good ideas? We have tried courier a

Re: flash drive encryption between different OS's

2009-06-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:58:33PM -0400, Daryl Styrk wrote: > I'm looking for a solution to encrypt a flash drive formated in FAT32 so > it can easily be decrypted across multiple OS's with the least amount of > software needed. I don't do windows. Does it have OpenSSL? I encrypt stuff with t

Re: Best way of restoring /etc from backups after fresh install?

2009-06-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 05:57:26PM +, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > I guess the automatically generated uids during the new installation > were different from the ones in my backed up passwd/group files. > > What would be the best way to restore the full system in such a case? > BTW, can a

Re: Strange printing problem(s)

2009-06-06 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Wayne Topa-4 wrote: > > > Has anyone got a clue as to where I should look? > Perhaps: sudo aptitude purge cups #check for any cups packages left and purge them if any are found sudo aptitude search cups~i #Search your user's home folder for any remaining cups settings sudo aptitude clean

aptitude logging question

2009-06-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is it possible just using aptitude to log what happens as a result of system upgrades and package installations? I had a situation with x11-common and xserver-xorg where --print-installation-architecture had been used. I'm wondering if I had configured aptitude correctly aptitude could have l

Re: : up-to-date Sid, Need help with xorg.conf

2009-06-06 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Please reply to the list. Curt Howland wrote: > > > There should be no need for a modeline at all. xorg should detect > its > > available modes and select the best one automatically. > > Wouldn't that be nice? Too bad it doesn't. What does xrandr say when you run it? It should list detected modes

Re: Best way of restoring /etc from backups after fresh install?

2009-06-06 Thread Laurentiu Pancescu
--- On Sat, 6/6/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > That's not what I meant. Lock directories are not located > in /etc but in > /var AFAIK, so restoring /etc from backup should be > doable. Oh, restoring /etc worked - all files were written correctly by rdiff-backup. The problem is the side effects y

Networking suddenly don't works (cdc_ether)

2009-06-06 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I have a laptop with installed Debian Lenny from the netinstall CD and from the internet. My internet connection is through a Cable Modem. I'm using an USB to Ethernet Adapter to connect the Laptop and Cable Modem. On the Laptop there is only one USB Port. I have successfully installed on th

Re: google cal issues, questions re: epiphany, iceweasel, iceowl

2009-06-06 Thread Cousin Stanley
> > So, why doesn't > aptitude install epiphany > give me the epiphany web browser? > You might try apt-cache show epiphany-browser -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Best way of restoring /etc from backups after fresh install?

2009-06-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,06.Jun.09, 08:09:56, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > > --- On Sat, 6/6/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Seems to me like you tried to restore more than just /etc > > I did. :) I reinstalled the full system: personal data and customized > settings from my backup, and the installed packages from

Re: DPkg::Pre-Invoke

2009-06-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,06.Jun.09, 10:52:30, Peter Jordan wrote: > > i want to be informed per mail if someone installs, upgrades, > downgrades, removes or purges a package via aptitude, apt-get or dpkg. I > could of course parse the /var/lib/dpkg/status file, but that's not what > i want. Ok, that's an enti

Re: DPkg::Pre-Invoke

2009-06-06 Thread Peter Jordan
Andrei Popescu, Sat Jun 06 2009 08:56:56 GMT+0200 (CEST): On Sat,06.Jun.09, 07:51:13, Peter Jordan wrote: i want to log every change of packages in my system. More than you already have in /var/log/dpkg.log /var/log/aptitude /var/log/apt/term.log ? Regards, Andrei i want to be informed pe

Re: Best way of restoring /etc from backups after fresh install?

2009-06-06 Thread Laurentiu Pancescu
--- On Sat, 6/6/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Seems to me like you tried to restore more than just /etc I did. :) I reinstalled the full system: personal data and customized settings from my backup, and the installed packages from the Debian archives, automatically from a backed-up list file ge

Re: Anyone compiled the driver for BCM4312?

2009-06-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Jun 2009, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 15:19:37 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I've tried to compile the wireless driver for BCM4312 on two different > > machines, after running m-a prepare. It always fails with the same > > message: > > > > /home/ac/bcm/src/wl/sys/wl_

Re: Best way of restoring /etc from backups after fresh install?

2009-06-06 Thread Laurentiu Pancescu
--- On Fri, 5/6/09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > While it is not strictly list policy, it is common courtesy > to CC someone > when they request it. Thanks, that was nice! Actually, posting to a mailing list without being subscribed to it is explicitly covered by the Debian Mailing List Co

Re: How to improve performance on laptop?

2009-06-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:58:15PM -0400, Michael Yang wrote: > Hi, > > I have my laptop installed with Debian for two years. It's been working > fine, although some problems happened and got fixed. (Now is Lenny, 2.6.24, > Xfce4). The system has been very stable, but just with performance issues

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-06-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:09:59AM -0500, lee wrote: > You can consider the problem of keeping data readable and usable over > long periods of time a "strawman" all you want. If you have data that > you want to still be able to read/use after a long time, you might > have a problem that is somewhat

Re: iceweasel preferences help needed

2009-06-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:19:03PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have a desire to have iceweasel work in a way that seems not easy > to configure: > > Now, when iceweasel starts, the text and graphics are always displayed > too large to fit within the window in which it is displayed. As a > con

Re: up-to-date Sid, Need help with xorg.conf

2009-06-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,05.Jun.09, 17:03:57, Curt Howland wrote: > Hi. Running up-to-date Sid. > > I bought a new monitor, and it seems somewhat limited in its screen > modes. The manual gives some particulars, but I can't seem to get > dpkg-reconfigure to give me the old interactive way of defining > Xwindows.

Re: Best way of restoring /etc from backups after fresh install?

2009-06-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,05.Jun.09, 17:57:26, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > After a fresh (re)install of Lenny, I installed all cca. 800 > previously installed packages (from a list file, via "xargs aptitude > install") and then restored /etc from my rdiff-backup archive > (containing just /

Re: Best way of restoring /etc from backups after fresh install?

2009-06-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,05.Jun.09, 23:23:24, Chris Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 04:35:21PM EDT, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <4a2963a8.3030...@gmail.com>, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > >Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > > > >> P.S. Please cc me when replying, I'm not subscribed to debian-user > > >> (too hig