Re: ffmpeg, h.264, and mpeg2video

> Have you tried getting packages from > ? On your advice, I just tried there. There are a ton of unmet dependencies, many of which I can't find at all. For example, the ffmpeg .deb package on the site depends on libavcodec52 (and about a dozen others) which i

Re: using lame

Jean-François Pirlet wrote: This is only partly correct. The real answer is you can convert from any lossless format to lossy to acheive the desired results. WAV is uncompressed lossless audio data, whereas FLAC, Wavpack, etc. are lossless compression file formats that also have the ability to

Re: [OT] Non-computer, quality text mailing lists ala Debian?

* Nick Lidakis [091025 20:15]: > Are there quality text mailing lists for non-computer related > topics? Do web forums dominate the internet landscape? If one is > tired of asinine graphics and animated avitars, where do you find > good lists? Recently I came across "FreeLists". Haven't used any

Re: [OT] Non-computer, quality text mailing lists ala Debian?

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:34:33AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 09:20:32PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > Forgive me if this too off topic for this list. I haven't had a chance to > > see > > what's going on at debian-off-topic much less join. > If you are really

Re: ffmpeg, h.264, and mpeg2video

In , lrhorer wrote: >I require an h.264 and mpeg2video codecs in ffmpeg, but "Lenny" does >not provide them. I read through a number of articles giving advice on >how to compile these codecs into ffmpeg, but when I try to take their >advice, the install fails. Have you tried getting packa

ffmpeg, h.264, and mpeg2video

I require an h.264 and mpeg2video codecs in ffmpeg, but "Lenny" does not provide them. I read through a number of articles giving advice on how to compile these codecs into ffmpeg, but when I try to take their advice, the install fails. All of them I have come across instruct the user to

Re: deadkeys with openoffice

Sending back to the list... Tony Baldwin wrote at 2009-10-28 15:18 -0500: > green wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote at 2009-10-28 08:49 -0500: >>> green wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote at 2009-10-27 07:32 -0500: > No matter what I do I cannot get my deadkeys to work in openoffice. > Anybod

Re: Wondering about doing something strange with networking

Kevin Ross wrote at 2009-10-28 14:27 -0500: > I think the 2d2 would be a better choice for the OP, since it includes 2 LAN > ports instead of one. Couple it with one of their nifty little enclosures > and AC adapter, and you're set! I didn't see the enclosures on the site earlier, but I do now.

Re: google chrome extensions

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:23:47 +0200, David Baron in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > I got the extensions at the link suggested! > > Get listed by "chrome://extensions", not "about://..." Correct. I don't think I said otherwise though. LOL > They work. Of course, is this whole thing contra to th

spamassassin best practices

I got 2 debian 5 on vmware, both running postfix and dovecot-imap on server a, i already installed spamassassin and spamc (nothing else configured) and add .procmailrc in a user (user1) home directory with configuration as below: ## start .procmailrc MAILDIR = $HOME/Mail :0fw: spamassassin.lock

Re: Skip file content checking in rsync

Hi Klistvud, Hi Gilles, Thanks for your help! With --inplace it is working fine. Funny it's even in it's manual, I don't know how have I managed to not find that... Sorry, and thanks again! Best regards, Gabor > Dne, 28. 10. 2009 18:43:59 je Gabor Heja napisal(a): > > >> Is there any way I

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 19:30 -0700, Brian C. Wells wrote: [...] > I also want to apologize for taking 4 days to respond. I thought it > would be best to wait until I had tried using the vacuum, but still > haven't gotten around to it. I don't have carpeted floors where I live, > so I don't have e

Re: Restricting Internet Access

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:21:13 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: ... > I disagree on the last point. It could simply be an incompatibility > between Shorewall and I. I find the RAW iptables rules clear and > rational, I don't see the need to obfuscate them. Fair enough - to each his own, I

Re: [OT] Facebook-like blogging software

On Wednesday 28 Oct 2009, Ken Teague wrote: > Can anyone recommend blogging software, preferrably pre-packaged and > in the stable tree, that functions like Facebook? > > One of my clients is looking for such a gem to throw around ideas at > each other, store away some of their own ideas, share

Re: using lame

> Jean-François Pirlet wrote: The mp3 is to the CD what the abstract is to the book, if you want. If you have the book, you can write the abstract, but the other way round won't work. [snip] You could also go from mp3 320 to mp3 160 (gaining disk space but losing quality). But going from 160

Re: deadkeys with openoffice

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote at 2009-10-28 08:49 -0500: > green wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote at 2009-10-27 07:32 -0500: >>> No matter what I do I cannot get my deadkeys to work in openoffice. >>> Anybody have better luck? >>> éáñ like these... >> >> It works fine for me, on a mostly Lenny system, in a

Re: OpenVPN

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 06:24:05AM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > Hi all! > > I was making a first attempt to establish a VPN between my house and the > office. The scenery from the side of my house is the following one: > > +--

Re: using lame

> This is only partly correct. The real answer is you can convert from > any lossless format to lossy to acheive the desired results. WAV is > uncompressed lossless audio data, whereas FLAC, Wavpack, etc. are > lossless compression file formats that also have the ability to store > ID3 tag info

Re: Skip file content checking in rsync

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gabor Heja wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a setup where the disk is filled with great files. I would like to > use rsync to backup my data, but when rsync detects a file with different > content it starts to copy the matching parts of that file to a temp

RE: Wondering about doing something strange with networking

> From: Nick Lidakis [mailto:nlida...@verizon.net] > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:42 PM > > The Alix 3d2 board is available for about $100 USD. > Cool, thanks for the heads up! I think the 2d2 would be a better choice for the OP, since it includes 2 LAN ports instead of one. Couple it wit

Re: /proc can be navigated to as ordinary user -- not as root!?

Klistvud wrote: Dne, 28. 10. 2009 16:46:47 je Klistvud napisal(a): Dne, 28. 10. 2009 15:12:42 je Aioanei Rares napisal(a): Klistvud wrote: Howdy, fellow Debianites, I have bumped into a most peculiar situation lately. On my laptop (running a fully updated Lenny with Gnome) I c

Re: Skip file content checking in rsync

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 06:43:59PM +0100, Gabor Heja wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a setup where the disk is filled with great files. I would like to > use rsync to backup my data, but when rsync detects a file with different > content it starts to copy the matching parts of that file to a tempor

Re: Skip file content checking in rsync

Dne, 28. 10. 2009 18:43:59 je Gabor Heja napisal(a): > > Is there any way I could tell the rsync to not use this method, so > not > duplicate but delete the target file and transfer the whole? > Uhm, isn't the --inplace option used for just that? -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix Use

Re: google chrome extensions

On Tuesday 27 October 2009 21:08:55 David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 27 October 2009 20:23:54 debian-user-digest- > > requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > Has anyone managed to get the extensions going for the latest chromium > > > build ( 4.0.223.11)? > > > They seem to install f

Skip file content checking in rsync

Hi all, I have a setup where the disk is filled with great files. I would like to use rsync to backup my data, but when rsync detects a file with different content it starts to copy the matching parts of that file to a temporary file and transfer the differences only and finally replaces the orig

Re: google chrome extensions

S. Fishpaste wrote: On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:30:57 -0400, Bogdan in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Hey, Has anyone managed to get the extensions going for the latest chromium build ( 4.0.223.11)? They seem to install fine but they do not work, and also, are not getting listed when "about://

Re: Restricting Internet Access

David Baron wrote: As undemocratic at it seems, sometimes it is necessary from some logins not to be able to access internet browsing and such. How might one set this up? I'm venturing a way out of my comfort zone here, but is this not a service that can be disabled via the various groups

Re: OpenVPN

Daniel, Second copy of this reply. I forgot the In-reply-to address in the first. > Until this instance, starting a OpenVPN client in the office I could > verify that the tunnel is established, but I can only reach the OpenVPN > server. The rest of hosts of my LAN is unareachables. > ... > I ha

Re: /proc can be navigated to as ordinary user -- not as root!?

Dne, 28. 10. 2009 16:46:47 je Klistvud napisal(a): > Dne, 28. 10. 2009 15:12:42 je Aioanei Rares napisal(a): > > Klistvud wrote: > > > Howdy, fellow Debianites, > > > > > > I have bumped into a most peculiar situation lately. On my laptop > > > (running a fully updated Lenny with Gnome) I can easi

Re: Single server image distributed clusters still available

On Wednesday 28 October 2009 09:54:40 Micha Feigin wrote: > AFAIK the only options that are still alive are the commercial mosix > solution and the open source kerrighed. is alive. They even have one or two of the original OpenMosix developers, AIUI. > Both require a cust

OT: Operation not permitted with UDP port SNAT

Hello. I have an issue with udp SNAT. If I try to change the source port of all UDP packets that go to a given port I get the "sendto: Operation not permitted" message. For the tests I used the "talker.c" program. http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/multipage/clientserver.html#datagram Thus i

Re: using lame

> 2009/10/28 steef hi folks, some times i use lame [...@lame --preset insane foo.mp3] to enhance existing mp3_files with 48Kbit >> 320Kbit. > Here's a good link that explains transcoding, which is what your question is about: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Transcoding >>

Re: Inquiry:External USB modem and Remote PC Access?

Hi, On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:22:52PM +, hadi motamedi wrote: > Thank you for your reply and sorry for lack of enough info . Please be > informed that I need to have remote access from my Debian server located at > the office to my Debian client far at the site via dialup modem connections >

Thoughts about /etc/X11/Xsession and .xsession-errors

Hello. /etc/X11/Xsession creates a ~/.xsession-errors and then creates a symlink from that file to /tmp/xsession-$USER. But if that fails, it tells the user that it has tried it the other way round. Doing it the other way would not only fit to the message, but would also make more sense to me. I

Re: /proc can be navigated to as ordinary user -- not as root!?

Dne, 28. 10. 2009 15:12:42 je Aioanei Rares napisal(a): > Klistvud wrote: > > Howdy, fellow Debianites, > > > > I have bumped into a most peculiar situation lately. On my laptop > > (running a fully updated Lenny with Gnome) I can easily navigate > into / > > proc (both with Nautilus and Gnome-Com

w3m-img — ho w to switch between graphic and non-graphic mode?

Hello. w3m-img adds the capability of viewing inline images with the framebuffer to w3m. Is there any key combo or command line option to switch between image and non-image mode? w3m with w3m-img is working, but i didn't find out yet how to switch back to text-only mode without uninstalling w3m

Re: OpenVPN

Daniel, > Until this instance, starting a OpenVPN client in the office I could > verify that the tunnel is established, but I can only reach the OpenVPN > server. The rest of hosts of my LAN is unareachables. > ... > I have the impression that continues existing some routing problem > somewhere. S

Re: Single server image distributed clusters still available

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:31:51 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > John Haggerty put forth on 10/28/2009 4:01 AM: > > Just checking to see if this actually made it to the list. I would hate > > to think that the only way to use this method is to have to use a > > different and 4 year old version of an ope

Re: Where is /etc/environment involved?

Roger Leigh wrote at 2009-10-28 04:56 -0500: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 05:38:05PM +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > > I looked over the init scripts. I cannot find the exact place that > > reads /etc/environment. > > pam_env.so is part of the PAM auth setup. Note you should really > use /etc/s

Re: Troubles Unsubscribing

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:16:47 + Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:46:45 + > Benjamin Crowe wrote: > > Hello Benjamin, > > > Could someone please unsubscribe me from this list please I have > > tried to do it myself but its not worked. > > We can't. Even though it's possible

Re: /proc can be navigated to as ordinary user -- not as root!?

Klistvud wrote: Howdy, fellow Debianites, I have bumped into a most peculiar situation lately. On my laptop (running a fully updated Lenny with Gnome) I can easily navigate into / proc (both with Nautilus and Gnome-Commander). When I try to run these browsers with gksu or su, however, they nev

Re: problems setting up power saving

green on 28/10/09 13:34, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote at 2009-10-28 04:47 -0500: green on 26/10/09 03:29, wrote: thanks for taking an interest - I re-installed lenny from scratch and these error messages don't appear any more. Plus the clicking has gone. The brute force solution! It still would b

Re: Optical Dell Mouse - seems standard doesn't work on xorg

Thomas Douillard wrote: 2009/10/27 Aioanei Rares > Thomas Douillard wrote: 2009/10/27 Aioanei Rares mailto:debian.dev.l...@gmail.com> >> Thomas Douil

Re: deadkeys with openoffice

green wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote at 2009-10-27 07:32 -0500: No matter what I do I cannot get my deadkeys to work in openoffice. Anybody have better luck? éáñ like these... It works fine for me, on a mostly Lenny system, in a terminal, in openoffice, in iceweasel (soon to be replaced with uz

New Warnings in Lilo

Running from a kernel build with the old deprecated proc stuff inactivated as recommended--I get these warnings from lilo: ~$ sudo lilo Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory s

Re: problems setting up power saving

Adam Hardy wrote at 2009-10-28 04:47 -0500: > green on 26/10/09 03:29, wrote: > thanks for taking an interest - I re-installed lenny from scratch and > these error messages don't appear any more. Plus the clicking has gone. > The brute force solution! It still would be good to check the drive wi

Re: Local DoS in kernel 2.6.26

On Tuesday 27 October 2009 16:36:07 David Cottrill NCH Software wrote: > To kill off a computer quickly: > step one: ":(){ :|:& };:" > step two: reboot because your machine has stopped responding Actually, I ran that intentionally, as root, on my new 2x dual-core system that I built in 2005. It

Re: Troubles Unsubscribing

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:46:45 + Benjamin Crowe wrote: Hello Benjamin, > Could someone please unsubscribe me from this list please I have tried > to do it myself but its not worked. We can't. Even though it's possible to initiate an unsubscribe from a third party account, the confirmation re

Re: window-specific Caps Lock?

Girish Kulkarni writes: > Is there a way I can set things up so that while I'm typing Fortran > 90, text will automatically be entered ALL CAPS in the Emacs buffer, > but not in any other windows? Maybe by telling GNOME? Or perhaps by > telling Emacs itself? You should be able to hang something

Troubles Unsubscribing

Could someone please unsubscribe me from this list please I have tried to do it myself but its not worked. Tanks Sneblot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Optical Dell Mouse - seems standard doesn't work on xorg

2009/10/27 Aioanei Rares > Thomas Douillard wrote: > >> >> 2009/10/27 Aioanei Rares > debian.dev.l...@gmail.com>> >> >>Thomas Douillard wrote: >> >>2009/10/27 Aioanei Rares > >>>

Re: uname -p and -i support?

In <4ae7fad6.1090...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >Any chance we might get uname -p or -i support any time soon? Should I >be asking this on another Debian list? Have you filed a wishlist bug against uname, or otherwise communicated to the maintainer(s) that this is a feature users w

Re: Local DoS in kernel 2.6.26

In <4ae7d2a7.9040...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >Will Murnane put forth on 10/27/2009 5:23 PM: >> This is also the wrong list; it's for users and developers of the >> Debian Live scripts. Please re-post on the proper list. >> >> Will > >It may not be the most appropriate list for his

window-specific Caps Lock?

Hi, I spend much time programming in Fortran 90 on my system, which is Lenny with GNOME. I type the code in GNU Emacs and I prefer typing Fortran 90 ALL CAPS. This usually means that I need to toggle the `Caps Lock' switch on my keyboard every time I switch from the Emacs window to the terminal

Re: Inquiry:External USB modem and Remote PC Access?

Thank you for your reply and sorry for lack of enough info . Please be informed that I need to have remote access from my Debian server located at the office to my Debian client far at the site via dialup modem connections . Please do me favor and let me know which applications need to be installed

Re: Restricting Internet Access

In <20091028011429.38cb199f.cele...@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote: >On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:09:11 -0500 >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: >> I can't help you with guarddog. I write my iptables rules by hand so >> they remain understandable. I can't stand the trash that most >> iptables rules generator

Re: What is the recommendation for a note software with tag support.

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: In my opinion, it should be something like this. 1. Taking note in a very simple way. 2. The notes could take some tags. 3. I could browse all my notes, by date, by tag, etc. You need Emacs's Org-mode. See http://orgmode.org/. I use it for t

Re: NTP Server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Again, aptitude install ntp is fully automatic and shouldn't require any > manual configuration. You may want to remove the package and reinstall it. s/remove/purge - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the

Can't modify /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ1/trip_points

Howdie, fellow Debianites! A recent thread here about an overheating notebook gave me the idea to try and slightly adjust the thermal trip points on my notebook; however, the trick of simply echoing a string to /proc/acpi/ thermal_zone/TZ1/trip_points, as suggested by many internet howtos from

Re: Inquiry:External USB modem and Remote PC Access?

Hi, I read that you run ebian as server... On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 04:52:45AM +, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > Please be informed that I checked for the presence of internal modem on my > CentOS server , as the followings : > #dmesg |grep -i modem > #lspci |grep -i modem > #lshw |grep -i

/proc can be navigated to as ordinary user -- not as root!?

Howdy, fellow Debianites, I have bumped into a most peculiar situation lately. On my laptop (running a fully updated Lenny with Gnome) I can easily navigate into / proc (both with Nautilus and Gnome-Commander). When I try to run these browsers with gksu or su, however, they never let me into /pr

Re: Single server image distributed clusters still available

John Haggerty put forth on 10/28/2009 4:01 AM: > Just checking to see if this actually made it to the list. I would hate > to think that the only way to use this method is to have to use a > different and 4 year old version of an operating system (Fedora Core 3) :( > > Is there something in debian

Re: Where is /etc/environment involved?

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 05:38:05PM +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > I looked over the init scripts. I cannot find the exact place that > reads /etc/environment. pam_env.so is part of the PAM auth setup. Note you should really use /etc/security/pam_env.conf instead, AFAICT /etc/environment is

Re: problems setting up power saving

green on 26/10/09 03:29, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote at 2009-10-23 08:45 -0600: There is a continuous clicking from the harddrives - once every 10 to 15 seconds. Lastly, are these errors in the boot log anything relevant to the issue? [5.730558] Probing IDE interface ide1... [5.770508]

Where is /etc/environment involved?

I looked over the init scripts. I cannot find the exact place that reads /etc/environment. -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞

Re: using lame

Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2009/10/28 steef mailto:debian.li...@home.nl>> hi folks, some times i use lame [...@lame --preset insane foo.mp3] to enhance existing mp3_files with 48Kbit >> 320Kbit. my question: does this r e a l l y gives an improvement of sound quality [ceter

OpenVPN

Hi all! I was making a first attempt to establish a VPN between my house and the office. The scenery from the side of my house is the following one: +--+ +---+ +--+ /\___ | OpenVPN

Re: using lame

2009/10/28 steef > hi folks, > > some times i use lame [...@lame --preset insane foo.mp3] to enhance existing > mp3_files with 48Kbit >> 320Kbit. > > my question: does this r e a l l y gives an improvement of sound quality > [ceteris paribus] > No. You can achieve sound improvemente only if you

Re: Single server image distributed clusters still available

Just checking to see if this actually made it to the list. I would hate to think that the only way to use this method is to have to use a different and 4 year old version of an operating system (Fedora Core 3) :( Is there something in debian for this for use shared, memory, processor, and disk spa

using lame

hi folks, some times i use lame [...@lame --preset insane foo.mp3] to enhance existing mp3_files with 48Kbit >> 320Kbit. my question: does this r e a l l y gives an improvement of sound quality [ceteris paribus] google came up only with some hunches. regards, steef, user wit

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

Brian C. Wells wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 07:49 +, marc wrote: >> Brian C. Wells wrote: >> >> > Hi. My HP G60-249WM Notebook's CPU is overheating, to the point that it >> > shuts itself off, whenever I use any CPU-intensive game such as glchess >> > (in the gnome-games package) or the no

resume - suspend cycle on 2.6.30-2

On my X61s, since I upgraded to the latest kernel in sid, the system immediately suspends on resuming. Booting with the older 2.6.30-1 fixes the problem. Are the hacks in acpi-support still necessary for s2disk or is there a cleaner way to do suspend now ? -- Alok If time heals all wounds, how

Re: dpkg fails - exact errors

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 01:02:16PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > I've tried to remove adobe-flashplugin, with the force option, but that > didn't work, now if I take dpkg's advice and reinstall I also get errors. > I've solved this issue, I simpley removed all the files /var/lib/dpkg/adobe-flash

uname -p and -i support?

Any chance we might get uname -p or -i support any time soon? Should I be asking this on another Debian list? -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Local DoS in kernel 2.6.26

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:27:58PM +0500, surreal wrote: > I just caught hold of a C source code from 2005. This code is a local DoS > which fills up the entire memory on Linux 2.6.N kernels. I guess you are talking about CVE-2008-5300 [1]. What happe