Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark Allums put forth on 3/8/2010 1:05 AM: > On 3/8/2010 12:43 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Look into XFS for desktop use. You may be surprised at what is has to >> offer. I'm not saying jump right in, but at least do a little reading >> and >> see if it might be worth just testing for your use

how are debconf and dpkg-deb related?

2010-03-07 Thread vikram
hi, I am studying the Debian package management system. I am having trouble figuring out how debconf and dpkg-deb are related. Heres how i understand the package management system: dpkg-deb does the actual installation/removal of packages dpkg is a frontend to dpkg-deb apt is front end t

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/8/2010 12:43 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Look into XFS for desktop use. You may be surprised at what is has to offer. I'm not saying jump right in, but at least do a little reading and see if it might be worth just testing for your uses. Okay. However, why doesn't Debian install it by de

Re: [Taking off-list] Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/8/2010 12:47 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-07 23:21, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 3/7/2010 9:18 PM: Hans Reiser is a Bad Man, ergo any code that Hans Reiser writes is Bad? That's so illogical, it makes ma think you're a Republicrat. For an educated man you make man

[Taking off-list] Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-07 23:21, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 3/7/2010 9:18 PM: Hans Reiser is a Bad Man, ergo any code that Hans Reiser writes is Bad? That's so illogical, it makes ma think you're a Republicrat. For an educated man you make many assumptions, many incorrectly. I didn't

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark Allums put forth on 3/7/2010 9:05 PM: > Well, you undoubtedly have more experience than I with servers. JFS is > dying. XFS *is not* suitable for desktops, you are correct. I don't know if it is or isn't suitable for desktops. It was the default FS on Irix desktop workstations for over a

Re: Emacs24?

2010-03-07 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2010-03-08 00:33 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > Yes, it's a real shame. We're also still waiting for Debian to put > Emacs-24 in unstable at least, so we can grab the source and release > it. But we've been waiting for so long that we're losing hope. We may > end up having to write the code ou

editing grub in lenny to boot from ext4 partition

2010-03-07 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Assuming Debian Lenny's installer will detect a Ubuntu 10.04 (daily build) partition in my PC (debian = /dev/sda1, ubuntu = /dev/sda3), i installed Lenny on sda1 but Ubuntu entry does not show up on GRUB. # grub-install -v grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97) so i proceed to edit grub taking example from

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/7/2010 10:40 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 22:07 -0600, Mark Allums wrote: Oh, and Virtualbox was originally based on QEMU, and there is still a lot of QEMU code in it. Interesting - does that pose any issues for the non-OSE Virtualbox, w.r.t. QEMU being GPL? Richard

Re: Emacs24?

2010-03-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Anyone know when emacs24 will be in Debian squeeze? The latest they > have is emacs23 :( Yes, it's a real shame. We're also still waiting for Debian to put Emacs-24 in unstable at least, so we can grab the source and release it. But we've been waiting for so long that we're losing hope. We may

Re: emacs transient-mark-mode

2010-03-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> When I set mark with C-SAPCE and then move cursor with > C-f C-b M-f M-b C-n C-p there is blue backgroun and > transient-mark-mode work as I am used to. But if I move > cursors with arrow keys or when I use C-x C-x to exchange > cursor and mark transient-mark-mode disapears. Doesn't sound like

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 3/7/2010 9:18 PM: > Hans Reiser is a Bad Man, ergo any code that Hans Reiser writes is Bad? > > That's so illogical, it makes ma think you're a Republicrat. For an educated man you make many assumptions, many incorrectly. I didn't say the code was bad because Reiser is

Questions (was Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros ...)

2010-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-07 22:10, Mark wrote: I was just looking at the stats for this thread: 38 total replies (not counting the spinoff/individual replies), of which three were directly helpful responses (thank you Aioanei, Theirry and Bob) which led me to more specific Googling, which led to my ultimate

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-07 Thread Richard Hector
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 22:07 -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > Oh, and Virtualbox was originally based on QEMU, and there is still a > lot of QEMU code in it. Interesting - does that pose any issues for the non-OSE Virtualbox, w.r.t. QEMU being GPL? Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: [OT] Ron

2010-03-07 Thread Chris
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:32:20 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-07 21:25, Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:19:32 -0600 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> Thanks. I was AWOL for 5-6 months, though. > > > > Sure were. And Doug's gone, Andrew and Paul appear but > > infreq

Re: Bash "read" command: want to preload some data

2010-03-07 Thread A. Costa
Bash isn't strictly needed, plain Bourne shell works, using parameter substitution man sh | grep -A 2 -i "parameter:-" ${parameter:-word} Use Default Values. If parameter is unset or null, the expansion of word is substituted. Otherwise, the value of parameter is

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/7/2010 10:10 PM, Mark wrote: I was just looking at the stats for this thread: 38 total replies (not counting the spinoff/individual replies), of which three were directly helpful responses (thank you Aioanei, Theirry and Bob) which led me to more specific Googling, which led to my ultimate s

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/4/2010 6:41 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 3/4/2010 4:49 PM, Martin Kraus wrote: Hi. I have been wondering what is the difference between qemu and qemu-kvm packages for kvm virtualization. Manual page in qemu packages shows, that it should be able to work with kvm. Uncle google is silent about t

Re: MySQL upgrade failed PLEASE HELP!!!

2010-03-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 15:22:01 -0500 (EST), Oscar Corte wrote: > > Just today I upgraded my Debian Lenny Server, many packages > were upgraded succesfully, but MySQL server wich is not working anymore. > > What can I do to restore MySQL server? > > Error messages shown are these: > > Starting MySQL

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Mark
I was just looking at the stats for this thread: 38 total replies (not counting the spinoff/individual replies), of which three were directly helpful responses (thank you Aioanei, Theirry and Bob) which led me to more specific Googling, which led to my ultimate solution. Have we lost our way a bit

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/7/2010 9:58 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 3/4/2010 6:41 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 3/4/2010 4:49 PM, Martin Kraus wrote: Hi. I have been wondering what is the difference between qemu and qemu-kvm packages for kvm virtualization. Manual page in qemu packages shows, that it should be able to work

Re: Heads up for NVIDIA users

2010-03-07 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 3/5/2010 3:11 PM, Mark Allums wrote: >> >> On 3/5/2010 2:20 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>> On 2010-03-05 20:49 +0100, Jason Filippou wrote: >>> I don't see this mentioned anywhere in the latest posts so I thought I'd post it: The

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/4/2010 6:41 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 3/4/2010 4:49 PM, Martin Kraus wrote: Hi. I have been wondering what is the difference between qemu and qemu-kvm packages for kvm virtualization. Manual page in qemu packages shows, that it should be able to work with kvm. Uncle google is silent about t

Re: Heads up for NVIDIA users

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/5/2010 3:11 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 3/5/2010 2:20 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-03-05 20:49 +0100, Jason Filippou wrote: I don't see this mentioned anywhere in the latest posts so I thought I'd post it: The latest proprietary linux driver on the NVIDIA website (195.36.08, URL: http://

Re: [OT] Ron

2010-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-07 21:25, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:19:32 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: ... Thanks. I was AWOL for 5-6 months, though. Sure were. And Doug's gone, Andrew and Paul appear but infrequently ... The "problem" is that Debian is just too stable for my limited needs. -- Ron

Re: [OT] Ron

2010-03-07 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:19:32 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: ... > Thanks. I was AWOL for 5-6 months, though. Sure were. And Doug's gone, Andrew and Paul appear but infrequently ... Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote ac

Re: [OT] Ron

2010-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-07 20:43, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:30:03 -0600 Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 3/7/2010 1:33 AM: AKA /argumentum ad Hitlerum/. Hitler was a vegetarian, so vegetarianism is wrong. It's probably very safe to say you just lost any respect you had on this

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-07 20:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 3/7/2010 1:33 AM: AKA /argumentum ad Hitlerum/. Hitler was a vegetarian, so vegetarianism is wrong. It's probably very safe to say you just lost any respect you had on this list by using a Hitler analogy. The analogy wasn't

Re: Rer: Two Lenny problems

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/7/2010 8:58 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: r (3) try to get a proprietary nVidia driver for Lenny to work with your card. There are proprietary drivers available. From reading the list, people either swear by them or swear at them. When they work, they generally work really well, but they brea

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/7/2010 8:46 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Mark Allums put forth on 3/7/2010 6:17 PM: ReiserFS is okay. *Was* okay. I wouldn't use it *now*.But I find it curious that your chosen alternative is XFS. I find it interesting that you find my choice "curious", given that you avoid the two o

Re: Rer: Two Lenny problems

2010-03-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 07:08:32 -0500 (EST), Cecil Knutson wrote: > > I did nothing about your last email because I didn't see it until after I > had made the last change, but, yes, the last Lenny install was to the 8400 > with a different audio card. Now the 8400 has Windows 7 Ultimate on it >

OT by now: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/7/2010 7:40 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-07 19:21, Richard Hector wrote: On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 18:42 -0600, Mark Allums wrote: If you are decommissioning, there is no substitute for an electric drill. What, just drill a hole in it? That will only affect a small part of the disk. I

Re: [SOLVED] Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Richard Hector put forth on 3/7/2010 7:21 PM: > On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 18:42 -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > >> If you are decommissioning, there is no substitute for an electric drill. > > What, just drill a hole in it? That will only affect a small part of the > disk. > > I think our sysadmin team

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark Allums put forth on 3/7/2010 6:17 PM: > ReiserFS is okay. *Was* okay. I wouldn't use it *now*.But I find > it curious that your chosen alternative is XFS. > > Mark Allums > > > Ext4 is usable, provided one doesn't ever need to rescue. Current live > CDs don't support it well (or md

[OT] Ron

2010-03-07 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:30:03 -0600 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Ron Johnson put forth on 3/7/2010 1:33 AM: > > > AKA /argumentum ad Hitlerum/. Hitler was a vegetarian, so vegetarianism > > is wrong. > > It's probably very safe to say you just lost any respect you had on this > list by using a Hitler

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 3/7/2010 1:33 AM: > AKA /argumentum ad Hitlerum/. Hitler was a vegetarian, so vegetarianism > is wrong. It's probably very safe to say you just lost any respect you had on this list by using a Hitler analogy. The analogy wasn't even relevant to boot. Hitler didn't creat

Re: TIA is ... (was Re: MySQL upgrade failed PLEASE HELP!!!)

2010-03-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 19:46:55 -0500 (EST), Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Extra message to say thanks, and to put SOLVED in the subject, and to explain > exactly how you solved the problem using the various answers you got, is not > a > lost time by any mean. (Shame on me: I don't all way spend the tim

Re: [SOLVED] Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-07 19:21, Richard Hector wrote: On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 18:42 -0600, Mark Allums wrote: If you are decommissioning, there is no substitute for an electric drill. What, just drill a hole in it? That will only affect a small part of the disk. I think our sysadmin team has a large log-

Re: [SOLVED] Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Richard Hector
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 18:42 -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > If you are decommissioning, there is no substitute for an electric drill. What, just drill a hole in it? That will only affect a small part of the disk. I think our sysadmin team has a large log-splitting axe - much more satisfying :-) I'd

exFAT is... (was Re: Vfat or NTFS?)

2010-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-07 18:50, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] exFAT would be highly useful, especially on removable drives, if there were good support on Linux. (There are those who object merely on the grounds of not using anything to do do with Microsoft, but in that case, we wouldn't use vFAT or NTFS, e

Re: [SOLVED] Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread thib
Mark Allums wrote: > If you are re-installing, zeros don't matter (with exception already > noted of ReiserFS). Of course. > If you are decommissioning, there is no substitute for an electric drill. Well, depends on who you're defending against. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: Emacs24?

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/7/2010 4:51 PM, Zachary Uram wrote: Anyone know when emacs24 will be in Debian squeeze? The latest they have is emacs23 :( What is so desirable about v.24? Mark Allums (a confirmed vi man) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Vfat or NTFS?

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/7/2010 12:50 PM, Russell Gadd wrote: I've been using Vfat for data partitions which I can access from both Linux and Windows (multibooted). Recently I added another hard drive formatted NTFS and have had no trouble getting Lenny to use it. I am wondering now whether to convert my Vfat parti

Re: [SOLVED] Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/7/2010 11:27 AM, thib wrote: Just to drop my two cents, since no one did before: Merely zeroing is not enough [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence If you are re-installing, zeros don't matter (with exception already noted of ReiserFS). If you are decommissioning, ther

Re: Emacs24?

2010-03-07 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 05:51:00PM -0500, Zachary Uram wrote: > Anyone know when emacs24 will be in Debian squeeze? The latest they > have is emacs23 :( > Emacs 23.1 is the current release and it is in squeeze. A slightly higher version of 23.1 is in sid. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/6/2010 11:20 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 3/6/2010 9:11 PM: If you are going to put reiserfs on a block device, it is not overly cautious to erase the block device, to avoid (reiserfsck --rebuild-tree) from performing necromancy. One more reason not to use

Re: Vfat or NTFS?

2010-03-07 Thread Sebastian Weisgerber
The 4 Gig max filesize of vfat makes it unusable for me. I used ntfs-3g for more than a year on 4 different HDD, all around 1 TB and had no problems with stability, data loss or any problems at all. Performance is ok, but not very fast. I got rates of max. 15 MByte/s on Encrypted USB 2.0 Truecry

Emacs24?

2010-03-07 Thread Zachary Uram
Anyone know when emacs24 will be in Debian squeeze? The latest they have is emacs23 :( Zach <>< http://www.fidei.org ><> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian

Re: Vfat or NTFS?

2010-03-07 Thread thib
Probably not the case, but if by any chance you only want to read it from Linux, consider the kernel driver[1] which should be faster than ntfs-3g. [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob_plain;f=Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt;hb=HEAD -thib -- To UNSU

[solved] Missing pages in new farm wiki

2010-03-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 01:20:43PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > However, when I log in as WikiAdmin, I don't seem to *be* superuser. > I don't see the SystemAdmin link on the nav bar, even though I've got: Turns out the new version of moinmoin doesn't set up certain pages by default anymore. I

Re: problems with gstreamer

2010-03-07 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Marcelo Chiapparini skrev: Recently I upgraded OO and something happens with the gstreamer library. Now, aptitude tries to uninstall a bunch of packages. Hi, Here are my attempts at comments. The ordering is arbitrary. 1) All packages that are marked {u} have been auto-installed to satis

DANIEL GONZALEZ would like to connect with you on Yahoo!

2010-03-07 Thread DANIEL GONZALEZ
Title: Connect with Friends and Family on Yahoo!

Missing pages in new farm wiki

2010-03-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I have a working wiki, and today I added a second instance. I updated /etc/moin/farmconfig.py and added a new domain instance with a superuser. However, when I log in as WikiAdmin, I don't seem to *be* superuser. I don't see the SystemAdmin link on the nav bar, even though I've got: superuser

modsecurity and moin-moin

2010-03-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm having a problem with modsecurity and moin-moin. The following rule is preventing wiki pages with the word '/etc' from posting. I'd like to find a way to disable this rule for just the wiki (e.g. not for the whole site) but am not sure how to do that in a granular way. It seems like a generall

Re: Vfat or NTFS?

2010-03-07 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Freeman wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 07:20:04PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:50:12PM +, Russell Gadd wrote: > > > > > > Should I go NTFS now for my data files? (keeping the main Lenny root > > > filesystem on an ext3 partition)

gnome-ppp error is now a kernel failure?

2010-03-07 Thread twixt
Follow up: When the wvdial error occurs, a popup window tells me the kernel failed. I should mention that I installed Debian 5.03 yesterday from 5 DVDs. I intend to report this to kerneloops.org, but without a Net connection, everything gets relayed through my Windows machine. Attached is what w

Re: Vfat or NTFS?

2010-03-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Roger Leigh [Sun, Mar 07 2010, 07:20:04PM]: > > I am wondering now whether to convert my Vfat partitions to NTFS as there > > are some advantages. For example I recently forgot about the 4GB file > > restriction of Vfat when trying to download a DVD iso - it got to 4GB then > > gave up

Re: Instability in Iceweasel

2010-03-07 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:41:56 +0100 Javier Barroso wrote: > Hi, > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:19:12 + > > Alan Chandler wrote: > > > >> Has anyone else noticed an instability in Iceweasel recently. > >> Sometimes, when I close a tab, it just exits

problems with gstreamer

2010-03-07 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Dear Debiannes, I am running Lenny, with openoffice from backports. Recentrly I upgraded OO and something happens with the gstreamer library. Cheese, rhythmbox and totem where uninstalled. Now, when I try to reinstall cheese for example, aptitude tries to uninstall a bunch of packages. Please, loo

Re: ssh

2010-03-07 Thread consul tores
2010/3/6 Tzafrir Cohen : > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 03:36:10AM -0800, consul tores wrote: >> hello >> >> If i do # ssh from Lenny against Slackware or OpenBSD, then i get only >> 1 key, but if i do # ssh from Lenny to Lenny, then i receive 2 keys! >> It happens when i am outside of my lan which has

Re: Vfat or NTFS?

2010-03-07 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 07:20:04PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:50:12PM +, Russell Gadd wrote: > > > > Should I go NTFS now for my data files? (keeping the main Lenny root > > filesystem on an ext3 partition). > > Just my experience but: > > 1) VFAT is a terrible f

Re: perl/bash question - html link out of text

2010-03-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 07 March 2010 11:07:56 Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > I don't know how to modify the: > > sed -r 's,.*(http://[^ \"$]+).*,\1,' > > command, to not just: > $ echo "test string http://somewhere.uk/ test" | sed -r 's,.*(http://[^ > \"$]+).*,\1,' > http://somewhere.uk/";>http://somewhere.uk/ > > r

Re: Vfat or NTFS?

2010-03-07 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:50:12PM +, Russell Gadd wrote: > I've been using Vfat for data partitions which I can access from both Linux > and Windows (multibooted). Recently I added another hard drive formatted > NTFS and have had no trouble getting Lenny to use it. > > I am wondering now whet

Re: [SOLVED] Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Odd
thib wrote: Just to drop my two cents, since no one did before: Merely zeroing is not enough [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence And if you see the notes: http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/overwritten-data-guttman.html "Since writing the above, I have noticed a comment attribut

Vfat or NTFS?

2010-03-07 Thread Russell Gadd
I've been using Vfat for data partitions which I can access from both Linux and Windows (multibooted). Recently I added another hard drive formatted NTFS and have had no trouble getting Lenny to use it. I am wondering now whether to convert my Vfat partitions to NTFS as there are some advantages.

Re: this table in html how

2010-03-07 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 07 March 2010 19:02:13 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Sunday 07 March 2010 12:26:01 Adrian Levi wrote: > > On 7 March 2010 21:19, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > > > I get to correct you back :-) > > Yes!! > > > If your going to specify cols then the percentages need to match ;-) > > > > Adr

Re: this table in html how

2010-03-07 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 07 March 2010 12:26:01 Adrian Levi wrote: > On 7 March 2010 21:19, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > I get to correct you back :-) Yes!! > If your going to specify cols then the percentages need to match ;-) > > Adrian > This will be better (using php): Choice of the number of rows Choic

Re: Monitor Resolution issues

2010-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:03:58 +1000, Linux User wrote: > I have a BenQ 20" G2220HD series monitor, and I was wondering if anyone > knows what I can put in the Xorg.conf file. I've just switched from > Debian to Kubuntu briefly for reasons that would take time to explain. > Debian Lenny 5.0.4 sets a

Re: [SOLVED] Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread thib
Just to drop my two cents, since no one did before: Merely zeroing is not enough [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:

gnome-ppp error

2010-03-07 Thread twixt
I can connect to my ISP through my phone modem using gnome-ppp, but then I get this error message: --> Sending: (password) Entering PPP mode. Async interface address is unnumbered (FastEthernet2/0/0) Your IP address is 0.0.0.0. MTU is 1500 bytes Header compression is on. --> Looks like a welcome

Dual monitor setup and xrandr

2010-03-07 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi all, I have an ATI Radeon HD4850 graphics card with two DVI outputs, and I recently got a second monitor. While both monitors are detected, I'm having trouble getting a twin screen setup working without extra tweaking after X starts up. I've attached the output of "xrandr -q" and my xorg.conf

Re: extracting vector graphics from a PDF

2010-03-07 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 08:59:23 -0500, I wrote: > >> Can anyone tell me how to extract a vector graphics image from a PDF? > > On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:06:33 +0100, mathieu.malate...@gmail.com replied: > >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pdf2svg.html

Re: perl/bash question - html link out of text

2010-03-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:12:39AM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:07:56PM +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > > I don't know how to modify the: > > > > sed -r 's,.*(http://[^ \"$]+).*,\1,' > > > > command, to not just: > > $ echo "test string http://somewhere.uk/ test" | sed -

Re: perl/bash question - html link out of text

2010-03-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:07:56PM +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > I don't know how to modify the: > > sed -r 's,.*(http://[^ \"$]+).*,\1,' > > command, to not just: > $ echo "test string http://somewhere.uk/ test" | sed -r 's,.*(http://[^ > \"$]+).*,\1,' > http://somewhere.uk/";>http://somewhere.u

Re: this table in html how

2010-03-07 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
thank you! :) On v, 2010-03-07 at 11:50 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:51:12 +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > > > http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/7735/tablehow.png > > > > i just can't write this table in html code.. :\ > > > > how can i make it? > > *** > > > cell1 > cell2 >

perl/bash question - html link out of text

2010-03-07 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
I don't know how to modify the: sed -r 's,.*(http://[^ \"$]+).*,\1,' command, to not just: $ echo "test string http://somewhere.uk/ test" | sed -r 's,.*(http://[^ \"$]+).*,\1,' http://somewhere.uk/";>http://somewhere.uk/ rather output this: test string http://somewhere.uk/";>http://somewhere.uk/

Re: extracting vector graphics from a PDF

2010-03-07 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 07. 03. 2010 17:46:04 je Steve Kleene napisal(a): Thanks to both of you. You're welcome. -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: extracting vector graphics from a PDF

2010-03-07 Thread Steve Kleene
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 08:59:23 -0500, I wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to extract a vector graphics image from a PDF? On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:06:33 +0100, mathieu.malate...@gmail.com replied: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pdf2svg.html > You'll get the whole page (including text fonts) as vectori

Re: Install failed un ASUS RS300-E6/PS4 server

2010-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:14:24 +0100, Sam Przyswa wrote: > Camaleón a écrit : >> I would follow the Debian's installer advice and try to manually load >> the driver by issuing "modprobe": >> >> 5.4.1.2. How to investigate and maybe solve issues >> http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/amd64/ch0

Re: Install failed un ASUS RS300-E6/PS4 server

2010-03-07 Thread Sam Przyswa
Camaleón a écrit : On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:24:16 +0100, Sam Przyswa wrote: I installed lot of Debian on lot of machines/servers but it's the first time I have a problem with a rack-mount server ASUS RS300-E6/PS4. The Debian installer (5.04) begin, I select language, keyboard, then it failed

Re: extracting vector graphics from a PDF

2010-03-07 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 07. 03. 2010 14:59:23 je Steve Kleene napisal(a): The PDF was created with LaTeX, so I'm pretty sure the image was incorporated as vector graphics (PS or EPS). I am aware of pdfimages from the poppler-utils package, but it only handles raster graphics. I'm not familiar with "vector g

Re: Install failed un ASUS RS300-E6/PS4 server

2010-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:24:16 +0100, Sam Przyswa wrote: > I installed lot of Debian on lot of machines/servers but it's the first > time I have a problem with a rack-mount server ASUS RS300-E6/PS4. The > Debian installer (5.04) begin, I select language, keyboard, then it > failed to find CDROM. Whe

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4b93556d.8070...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >On 2010-03-06 21:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <4b92a531.6090...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 2010-03-06 09:41, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <20100306015538.gp11...@wasteland.homelinux.net>, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Mark

Re: extracting vector graphics from a PDF

2010-03-07 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to extract a vector graphics image from a PDF? > > The PDF was created with LaTeX, so I'm pretty sure the image was incorporated > as vector graphics (PS or EPS).  I am aware of pdfimages from the > poppler-utils package,

Re: logrotate

2010-03-07 Thread Laurent Guignard
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:12:18 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to scp or rsync the files to a remote host older than > 15 days in the logrotate config and than delete it on localhost older > than 15 days, so that at a time only 15 days of logs are available on > localhost. >

extracting vector graphics from a PDF

2010-03-07 Thread Steve Kleene
Can anyone tell me how to extract a vector graphics image from a PDF? The PDF was created with LaTeX, so I'm pretty sure the image was incorporated as vector graphics (PS or EPS). I am aware of pdfimages from the poppler-utils package, but it only handles raster graphics. I'd prefer to do this f

Re: this table in html how

2010-03-07 Thread Tim Clewlow
I just had to - its probably a disorder :-D http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> body { margin:0px; } .left_column_50 { width:50%; float:left; text-align:center; margin:0px; } .right_column_50 { width:50%; float:right; text-align:center; margin:0px; } .left_column_

Re: this table in html how

2010-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:51:12 +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/7735/tablehow.png > > i just can't write this table in html code.. :\ > > how can i make it? *** cell1 cell2 cell3 cell4 cell5 *** CSS no included ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: [SOLVED] Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 03/07/2010 04:23 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: What *can* exist, maybe, are residual *fragments* (blocks or sectors, since the original inodes and index structures were wiped away by the mkfs) which a clever forensic technician could maybe piece back together, So, zeroing out the partition is a reas

Re: this table in html how

2010-03-07 Thread Adrian Levi
On 7 March 2010 21:19, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Oup: > More like that: 50% 50% 33% 33% 33% I get to correct you back :-) If your going to specify cols then the percentages need to match ;-) Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost

Re: this table in html how

2010-03-07 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 07 March 2010 11:56:10 Adrian Levi wrote: > On 7 March 2010 20:51, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > > http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/7735/tablehow.png > > > > i just can't write this table in html code.. :\ > > > > how can i make it? > > > > > > > > > > > Have no idea about standa

Re: this table in html how

2010-03-07 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 07 March 2010 11:56:10 Adrian Levi wrote: > On 7 March 2010 20:51, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > > http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/7735/tablehow.png > > > > i just can't write this table in html code.. :\ > > > > how can i make it? > > > > > > > > > > > Have no idea about standa

Re: this table in html how

2010-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-07 04:56, Adrian Levi wrote: On 7 March 2010 20:51, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/7735/tablehow.png i just can't write this table in html code.. :\ how can i make it? Have no idea about standards compliance but it should render properly.

Re: this table in html how

2010-03-07 Thread Adrian Levi
On 7 March 2010 20:51, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/7735/tablehow.png > > i just can't write this table in html code.. :\ > > how can i make it? Have no idea about standards compliance but it should render properly. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid

this table in html how

2010-03-07 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/7735/tablehow.png i just can't write this table in html code.. :\ how can i make it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Resume broke after upgrading Squeeze in my T61

2010-03-07 Thread Muurim ki Perttu
Hi, Resuming stopped working in my Lenovo T61 when I dist-upgraded last tuesday. It was a biggish upgrade since I hadn't done upgrading for more than a week so unfortunately there are several possible reasons :| Symptoms: screen stays black after resume. Network and bluetooth leds come on and e

Re: SOLVED aumix not working

2010-03-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Martin [Sun, Mar 07 2010, 05:01:19AM]: > On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 03:03:30PM -0800, Freeman wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 08:55:52PM +0100, MList wrote: > > > Why is aumix failing and how can I fix it? > > > > > > > Have you read: > > > > Debian specific notes for the aumix packa