Re: Suggestions for VoIP software on lenny please

2010-02-11 Thread Klaus Wolf
Hi, perhaps kphone will suit your suggestions greatings and a nice day klaus Am Freitag, den 12.02.2010, 01:00 + schrieb George: > On 2/11/10, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > I don't know if that falls into what you are looking for. > > I have a asterisk server running at home and in the o

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Tony van der Hoff put forth on 2/11/2010 11:53 AM: > So, I've set my PS1 in /root/.bashrc as suggested. > From my user shell, I do 'su', and the prompt, and everything following > is in red - good! > CTRL-D returns me to my user shell, and everything is still red - bad! CTRL-D is new to me. Than

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jon Dowland put forth on 2/11/2010 7:45 AM: > to denote. If in doubt, be explicit in your preamble. This was my point. However, for a document writer, doubt, stupidity, not enough coffee in the readers' belly and thus not enough caffeine in the brain should always be assumed. Thus, it should al

Re: OT: Re: teclado qwerty e carateres especiais do portugues

2010-02-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:12:04 -0500 (EST), Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > It was my fault, and I apology for it. I always use the correct list, but > this time I did a mistake when choosing the list to send my post (hurry is > not a friend of accuracy). Nevertheless, I am using Debian since potato

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:05:45PM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > the kernel image listed above was added to my system (testing on an ibm > thinkpad) during a recent dist-upgrade. > > it runs through all the regular boot messages but then refuses to bring up > the log-in screen. the boot loh does no

vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-11 Thread Sam Varghese
the kernel image listed above was added to my system (testing on an ibm thinkpad) during a recent dist-upgrade. it runs through all the regular boot messages but then refuses to bring up the log-in screen. the boot loh does not indicate anything unusual. this isn't a major issue as the system boo

Re: Recently, CUPS and my Laserjet hate PDF's

2010-02-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
On a hunch, I used Evince to print the aforementioned PDF as a file to postscript. The LaserJet prints that .ps file just fine. And, fuerther Googling reveals that PDF get converted to postscript when being sent to the printer. So, maybe pdftops is to blame? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-11 Thread John
On 11/02/10, Tony van der Hoff (t...@vanderhoff.org) wrote: | ... | PS - where are these escape sequences documented, please? http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/May2004/article335.shtml -- johnrchamp...@columbus.rr.com GPG key 1024D/99421A63 2

Re: Suggestions for VoIP software on lenny please

2010-02-11 Thread George
On 2/11/10, Henning Follmann wrote: > I don't know if that falls into what you are looking for. > I have a asterisk server running at home and in the office. Localy I > have SIP phones (CISCO 7XXX) with that. I've tried reading on asterisk, but I don't understand what half of the terminology mea

Re: Suggestions for VoIP software on lenny please

2010-02-11 Thread George
On 2/11/10, Rob Owens wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:35:38PM +, George wrote: >> I'm away from home right now and need VoIP to communicate with my >> loved ones. Skype works, but it's a CPU hog, has an awful GUI, it >> messes up with the soundcard, it's extremely buggy and thus a pain to

Recently, CUPS and my Laserjet hate PDF's

2010-02-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
After many years of printing bliss using CUPS and a HP LaserJet 4000, something seems to be wrong when attempting to print PDF's. I tried 2 days ago to print this: http://www.nycremsco.org/news.asp?intCategoryID=1&intArticleID=402 The job gets sent to the printer and the LaserJet will sit there f

Re: xmacrorec

2010-02-11 Thread Hugo Wau
Sorry, I am not at my own PC - and not using the default mail application but am using webmail and forgot to have an extra look at the "TO:" line after hitting the REPLY button. The old versions of Windows 3.0 and 3.1 came with a RECORDER application by default. And something like that is what

Re: xmacrorec

2010-02-11 Thread mtp5150
Hi Hugo, Sorry, I don't know anything about xmacrorec or xmacroplay. On another note make sure when you reply to posts on the mailing list that you are posting your reply to the list (debian-user@lists.debian.org) and not directly to someones email address. This way everyone can see your rep

Re: Suggestions for VoIP software on lenny please

2010-02-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:35:38PM +, George wrote: > I'm away from home right now and need VoIP to communicate with my > loved ones. Skype works, but it's a CPU hog, has an awful GUI, it > messes up with the soundcard, it's extremely buggy and thus a pain to > use. I've tried Gizmo, which sort

Re: dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:01:08 -0500 (EST), Leonardo Canducci wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> Leonardo Canducci wrote: >>> It's more complex than that: I tested the unit on a different win xp >>> pc this morning and everything worked fine (analog included). >> >> Uhh ... OK, now I'm confused.  You

Re: teclado qwerty e carateres especiais do portugues

2010-02-11 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Em 11 de fevereiro de 2010 11:36, Nuno Magalhães escreveu: > > Muito obrigado pela dica. Funcionou muito bem. Com o dpkg-reconfigure eu > > também não consegui modificar o mapa do teclado. Sem querer abusar > (muito) > > da tua paciência, como coloco a instrução no script de start-up (como > defin

OT: Re: teclado qwerty e carateres especiais do portugues

2010-02-11 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Em 11 de fevereiro de 2010 13:07, Stephen Powell escreveu: > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:25:01 -0500 (EST), Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > >> --- El mié 10-feb-10, Fabricio Cannini > escribió: > >> > >>>11:07:48 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Ola a todos, > > rodo Lenny num notebook Com

Re: dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-11 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2010/2/11 Stephen Powell : > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:04:30 -0500 (EST), Leonardo Canducci wrote: >> The SATA dvd burner in my desktop doesn't have any analog output so >> cdplay (or cdcd) does not work (disk is spinning and led is blinking >> but no audio). > > How sad.  Apparently, the drive *does*

Re: network-manager not connecting automatically anymore

2010-02-11 Thread Tom H
> I've made some progress: After I commented the following two lines > mentioning eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces, network-manager works just > as expected! > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > What should /etc/network/interfaces contain about eth0 if I'm using > network-manager? Anythin

Re: dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:04:30 -0500 (EST), Leonardo Canducci wrote: > The SATA dvd burner in my desktop doesn't have any analog output so > cdplay (or cdcd) does not work (disk is spinning and led is blinking > but no audio). How sad. Apparently, the drive *does* support the play command, but if t

Re: Suggestions for VoIP software on lenny please

2010-02-11 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:42:12PM -0200, Michel wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:35 PM, George wrote: > > [snip] > >>> So at the moment I'm stuck with Skype, and I really don't like it. Any >>> suggestions would be welcome. >>> >>> >> I use Twinkle without problems. > >

Re: Duda entre LVM y CLVM

2010-02-11 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-11 08:28:47, Angel L. Mateo wrote: ... > I am planning to deploy a virtualization server farm. I'm > going to > deploy several virtual machine servers (xen). The VM are going to be > storaged in a shared storage (iscsi) with LVM volumes, all of them in > the same VG. > > I

Re: Suggestions for VoIP software on lenny please

2010-02-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:42:12PM -0200, Michel wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:35 PM, George wrote: [snip] > > > > So at the moment I'm stuck with Skype, and I really don't like it. Any > > suggestions would be welcome. > > > > > > I use Twinkle without problems. me to with my asterisk s

RE: Substitute for KShowMail?

2010-02-11 Thread James Wu
Unfortunately, I think that gnome applets are quite lacking in general (if that's what you're looking for). I tried looking around a few years ago for something similar and never quite found one that was native to Gnome. Any reasons why KshowMail isn't being considered anymore? James -Orig

Re: network-manager not connecting automatically anymore

2010-02-11 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 11 February 2010 17:39:31 Felix H. Dahlke wrote: > I've made some progress: After I commented the following two lines > mentioning eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces, network-manager works just > as expected! > > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > What should /etc/network/interf

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/02/10 17:16, John wrote: On 11/02/10, Jon Dowland (j...@debian.org) wrote: | ... | I've never met a bash that displays anything other than '#' | for '\$' in PS1. Can you give an example of one that does? From .bashrc: # root; red #export PS1='\[\033[0;31...@\w# \]' Very useful thread,

Re: network-manager not connecting automatically anymore

2010-02-11 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 14:44 +0100, Felix H. Dahlke wrote: > As of late, I'm not connected to my wired network after booting, and > still not when logging into GNOME. eth0 exists and is up, but doesn't > have an IP. > > I used to be connected right after booting. Sadly, I can't tell which > version

Re: network-manager not connecting automatically anymore

2010-02-11 Thread Felix H. Dahlke
I've made some progress: After I commented the following two lines mentioning eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces, network-manager works just as expected! allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp What should /etc/network/interfaces contain about eth0 if I'm using network-manager? Anything at all? Asi

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 11 February 2010 11:16:15 John wrote: > On 11/02/10, Jon Dowland (j...@debian.org) wrote: > | I've never met a bash that displays anything other than '#' > | for '\$' in PS1. Can you give an example of one that does? > > From .bashrc: > > # root; red > #export PS1='\[\033[0;31...@\w#

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-11 Thread John
On 11/02/10, Jon Dowland (j...@debian.org) wrote: | ... | I've never met a bash that displays anything other than '#' | for '\$' in PS1. Can you give an example of one that does? From .bashrc: # root; red #export PS1='\[\033[0;31...@\w# \]' # sid: green export PS1='\[\033[0;32...@\w$ \]' # magen

Re: Search engine for documentation indexing?

2010-02-11 Thread John Magolske
* Ian Zimmerman [100210 22:53]: > Olly> But as others have said, recoll is probably a better choice for > Olly> a Xapian-based solution for a desktop situation anyway. > > Well, but I'm not running a typical desktop, at least not if by that is > meant a Gnome or KDE stacked system. The fact that

Re: dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-11 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2010/2/11 Stephen Powell : > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:13:11 -0500 (EST), Leonardo Canducci wrote: >> Stephen Powell wrote: >>> First thing to check: Is the activity light on the drive flashing on >>> and off at regular intervals?  On my system, it's on for about 0.5 >>> seconds, then off for about 0.

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-11 Thread Albretch Mueller
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <9ef66fac1002102000u63567764s84a867b7376c4...@mail.gmail.com>, Albretch > Mueller wrote: >>> ... GRUB 2 should be able to find your kernel based on filesystem UUID >> >> Boyd, how am I gona know the filesystem UUID of a machine I

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-11 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:08:43 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:41:10PM EST, Tony Nelson wrote: >> > I was wondering if there was anything more reliable than just >> > looking. >> ... >> >> The pdffonts program in poppler-utils? > > Hm.. if you read the thread from the begi

Re: teclado qwerty e carateres especiais do portugues

2010-02-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:10:26 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote: > That's not Spanish, but Portuguese I stand corrected. Thank you. I'm afraid I can't tell the difference. I did take Spanish in high school. But that was a long time ago, and since I've had no occasion to use it since, I've forgotten mo

Re: teclado qwerty e carateres especiais do portugues

2010-02-11 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:07:20 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:25:01 -0500 (EST), Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >> Mais uma vez, obrigado pela ajuda >> >> Marcelo > > All of you: debian-user-spanish exists for a reason. Please use it. And > please stay off this list unless you

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-11 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:41:10PM EST, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-02-10 17:12:54, Chris Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:09:22PM EST, Camaleón wrote: > ... > > > I mean, the only way I see to know what fonts are being used in a > > > document is by reading the meta information (font p

Re: teclado qwerty e carateres especiais do portugues

2010-02-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:25:01 -0500 (EST), Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > >> --- El mié 10-feb-10, Fabricio Cannini escribió: >> >>>11:07:48 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Ola a todos, rodo Lenny num notebook Compaq 2510p. O teclado e' um >>> teclado americano qwerty. Como faco para a

Re: network-manager not connecting automatically anymore

2010-02-11 Thread godo
Felix H. Dahlke wrote: Hi, As of late, I'm not connected to my wired network after booting, and still not when logging into GNOME. eth0 exists and is up, but doesn't have an IP. I used to be connected right after booting. Sadly, I can't tell which version of network-manager I was using then. It

Re: Suggestions for VoIP software on lenny please

2010-02-11 Thread Henning Follmann
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:35:38PM +, George wrote: > I'm away from home right now and need VoIP to communicate with my > loved ones. Skype works, but it's a CPU hog, has an awful GUI, it > messes up with the soundcard, it's extremely buggy and thus a pain to > use. I've tried Gizmo, which sort

Re: dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:13:11 -0500 (EST), Leonardo Canducci wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> First thing to check: Is the activity light on the drive flashing on >> and off at regular intervals?  On my system, it's on for about 0.5 >> seconds, then off for about 0.5 seconds, just like clockwork. >

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-11 Thread Scott
Apologies that this won't be properly threaded, but I just got my subscription problems solved. I am the OP on this thread, and have read the replies in the archive. Looking at the bash manual I see that, for a login shell, /etc/profile is sourced, and then ~/.bash_profile, whereas for an interact

Re: Substitute for KShowMail?

2010-02-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:31:26 +, Camaleón wrote: > I am looking for a good replacement of KShowMail (a pop/imap mail > checker with advanced functions -the ability of deleting and reading > e-mails is a must). > > Right now I'm using "mail-notification" (in a GNOME environment) but is > rather

Re: Suggestions for VoIP software on lenny please

2010-02-11 Thread Michel
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:35 PM, George wrote: > I'm away from home right now and need VoIP to communicate with my > loved ones. Skype works, but it's a CPU hog, has an awful GUI, it > messes up with the soundcard, it's extremely buggy and thus a pain to > use. I've tried Gizmo, which sorta works

Suggestions for VoIP software on lenny please

2010-02-11 Thread George
I'm away from home right now and need VoIP to communicate with my loved ones. Skype works, but it's a CPU hog, has an awful GUI, it messes up with the soundcard, it's extremely buggy and thus a pain to use. I've tried Gizmo, which sorta works but it's unusable because the sound is horrible, to the

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-02-11 Thread Rémi Moyen
2010/2/11 John Hasler : > Rémi Moyen writes: >> aptitude man page is not helpful, I haven't found this in the online >> doc either... Did I miss a "complete" doc (apart from the code >> itself!) ? > > > Package: aptitude-doc-en If it contains the same thing as, for example, http://algebraicthunk.n

Re: Search engine for documentation indexing?

2010-02-11 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:23:06 -0800 Ian Zimmerman wrote: ... > Well, but I'm not running a typical desktop, at least not if by that is > meant a Gnome or KDE stacked system. The fact that recoll is bound to a > particular GUI is definitely a disadvantage. So no orphaning omega > please! :-) Re

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-02-11 Thread John Hasler
Rémi Moyen writes: > aptitude man page is not helpful, I haven't found this in the online > doc either... Did I miss a "complete" doc (apart from the code > itself!) ? Package: aptitude-doc-en Priority: optional Section: doc Installed-Size: 1468 Maintainer: Daniel Burrows Architecture: all Sourc

network-manager not connecting automatically anymore

2010-02-11 Thread Felix H. Dahlke
Hi, As of late, I'm not connected to my wired network after booting, and still not when logging into GNOME. eth0 exists and is up, but doesn't have an IP. I used to be connected right after booting. Sadly, I can't tell which version of network-manager I was using then. It's 0.7.999-2 now. Restar

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:47:56PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > An author of technical documentation should never rely on > the ability of the reader to pick up on the subtle one > character difference of $ or # in a command line example. The subtlty of the difference depends on the length of you

Re: teclado qwerty e carateres especiais do portugues

2010-02-11 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> Muito obrigado pela dica. Funcionou muito bem. Com o dpkg-reconfigure eu > também não consegui modificar o mapa do teclado. Sem querer abusar (muito) > da tua paciência, como coloco a instrução no script de start-up (como defino > um script desse tipo?) Usa o ficheiro ~/.Xsession, com "setxkbmap

Re: Personal keylogger?

2010-02-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 9 February 2010 20:57, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-02-09 04:08:47, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> It looks like LKL doesn't work. Although it runs, it does not produce >> an output file. In online forums I see much mention of other people >> who cannot get it to work, yet no solutions. It might be that I

Re: Personal keylogger?

2010-02-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Just for the record: > > http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=keylogger > Thanks, Camaleón, I will go through those tools. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list ma

Re: Personal keylogger?

2010-02-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 9 February 2010 12:55, Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:40:09AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> I am having a hard time finding one! I will continue googling, if I >> come up with anything then I will update the thread for the sake of >> future archive diggers. > > Maybe xkey [1]

Re: Duda entre LVM y CLVM

2010-02-11 Thread Angel L. Mateo
On 10/02/10 14:53, Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:24:01 -0500 (EST), Angel L. Mateo wrote: Hola, Voy a montar un conjunto de servidores de virtualización. Las máquinas virtuales las voy a tener en un almacenamiento compartido (iscsi) dentro de volúmenes LVM. En principio,

Re: teclado qwerty e carateres especiais do portugues

2010-02-11 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
2010/2/10 Anthony Baldwin > --- El mié 10-feb-10, Fabricio Cannini escribió: > > > 11:07:48 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > Ola a todos, > > > > > > rodo Lenny num notebook Compaq 2510p. O teclado e' um > > teclado americano > > > qwerty. Como faco para ativar os acentos e a c > > cidilha? deve

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-02-11 Thread Rémi Moyen
2010/2/11 Sven Joachim : > On 2010-02-11 08:30 +0100, Guy Marcenac wrote: > >> What is the meaning of [-107] in the status output of aptitude ? >> Current status: 0 updates [-107] > > It means that there are 107 less than before, i.e. you have just > upgraded 107 packages. I take the opportunity o

Re: dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-11 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2010/2/11 Stephen Powell : > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:03:25 -0500 (EST), Leonardo Canducci wrote: >> >> Maybe a little off-topic: hardware issue with lenny. >> >> I've just replaced a broken LG dvd burner on my parents pc with an >> ASUS drw-22b2s (IDE interface) and it works fine except it cannot re

Re: dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-11 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2010/2/11 : > The new drive has an audio cable to connect it to the audio card? It has the usual thin analog audio cable connected to the motherboard as all IDE drives. AFAIK SATA drives don't have this cable anymore but they work anyway... I guess digital audio goes through data cable. -- Leona

Re: Aptitude status output meaning

2010-02-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-11 08:30 +0100, Guy Marcenac wrote: > What is the meaning of [-107] in the status output of aptitude ? > Current status: 0 updates [-107] It means that there are 107 less than before, i.e. you have just upgraded 107 packages. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis