Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Terence
On 12 March 2010 12:05, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >>> If it works for Brussels, it should work everywhere on the continent. >> > I will add a comment. Thanks for this finding! > I use Forecastfox in Iceweasel. I have just opened the Add Ons window, and checked the Preferences box.

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-12 23:27, Mark Allums wrote: On 3/12/2010 12:11 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:58:08 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote: On 20100312_092355, Stephen Powell wrote: Paul, please provide the following information: (5) The contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log

[Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

2010-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
Since I stumbled onto this a couple of months ago, it's become indispensable! Highlight some text, right-click and a little b/w bull's eye appears. Mouse onto the bull's eye and a pop-up menu appears which lets you perform a multitude of tasks, like Googling it, searching Wikipedia, translati

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/12/2010 12:11 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:58:08 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote: On 20100312_092355, Stephen Powell wrote: Paul, please provide the following information: (5) The contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log There follows 858 lines of the above named

Re: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

2010-03-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100313_020002, thib wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: > >I believe a UUID is generated when the partition is "formatted", either with > >mkfs or mkswap. > > I confirm - just tried shrinking and growing back an extfs. UUID is > left untouched (as expected); that Mint article is BS or just > obs

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/12/2010 10:22 AM, John W Foster wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul E Condon To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: need help with xorg.conf Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:42:16 -0700 I have a cheap flat screen monitor on one of my computers. I works nicely, but not perfectly with Le

Re: liblua5.1-gtk-0 problem

2010-03-12 Thread Martin
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:34:55AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 04:25:05 +0100, Martin wrote: > I have no experience with lua, but your error messages seem to tell me > that the libraries cannot be loaded because they have undefined symbols > that the linker cannot find an

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-03-12 13:11:14, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:58:08 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote: ... > > (--) SAVAGE(0): probed videoram: 32768k > > Plenty of video RAM to do true color mode even at 1366x768 > resolution. > > 1366x768x24/1024 = 24588k; 1366x768x32/1024 = 32784k. >

Re: KDE and Squeeze

2010-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-12 19:52, lrhorer wrote: [snip] My servers are on a secure network, unaccessible from outside the network, and I almost never do anything that doesn't require root access on them, so I set them up with a chooser that has root as one of its selections defaulted in the KDM choos

Re: KDE and Squeeze

2010-03-12 Thread lrhorer
> I have been using kde4 for over a year. The only issues that I have > had are the lack of a couple of programs that haven't been ported from > kde3 to kde4 yet but I have managed with out them. You didn't explain > what your problems are with kde4 so I am going to have to guess here. > Yes the UI

Re: KDE and Squeeze

2010-03-12 Thread lrhorer
Cassiano Leal wrote: > On 9 March 2010 00:22, Sam Leon wrote: >> lrhorer wrote: >>> >>> I loaded up an embedded system with Debian recently.  I was having >>> problems relating to the older kernel in Lenny, so I want ahead and >>> installed Squeeze.  I got things working, but I was mortified with

Re: KDE and Squeeze

2010-03-12 Thread lrhorer
> I have replaced kpackage with "gdebi-kde", gdebi lets you install > local deb packages resolving and installing its dependencies. apt does > the same, but only for remote (http, ftp) located packages. > > I also use synaptic. I've used both somewhat extensively. I dislike synaptic. Kp

Re: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

2010-03-12 Thread thib
Stephen Powell wrote: I believe a UUID is generated when the partition is "formatted", either with mkfs or mkswap. I confirm - just tried shrinking and growing back an extfs. UUID is left untouched (as expected); that Mint article is BS or just obsolete. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: mpg123 does not play

2010-03-12 Thread thib
Ron Johnson wrote: This is odd-looking. $ apt-file search output_alsa.la mpg123: /usr/lib/mpg123/output_alsa.la Wow, yup. If someone has the time to investigate, I'm quite sure the file to look at is mpg123-1.4.3/libltdl/ltdl.c. The lib defines the heuristics to find and load the modules;

Re: liblua5.1-gtk-0 problem

2010-03-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 04:25:05 +0100, Martin wrote: > I have installed Gtk binding for Lua > liblua5.1-gtk-dev > liblua5.1-gtk-0 > from Lenny DVDs. I also have Lua interpreter and dev libraries > lua5.1 > liblua5.1-0 > liblua5.1-0-dev > > When I try to run example program this is the error: > >

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 14:12:37 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:18:30 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: [...] > > If after running "sudo update-usbids.sh" the device name is still not > > shown, is that a sign that the driver is not properly installed? > > As others (Florian) have explain

Re: mpg123 does not play

2010-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-12 10:13, Curt Howland wrote: On Friday 12 March 2010, Ron Johnson was heard to say: strace? $ strace mpg123 [snip] chdir("/usr/lib/mpg123")= 0 open("/lib/output_alsa.la", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) This is odd-looking. $ apt-file s

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:36:27AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:11:14PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > [...] > > > > OK, we learn a lot from the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. > > > > Your Integrated graphics card is > > > > > (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 5333:8d04:1462:390

Re: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

2010-03-12 Thread Cousin Stanley
> > I personally don't like the use of UUIDS by the installer > and I change them back to their traditional names. > I'm also not a uuid fan and find that using disk labels in /etc/fstab a la /dev/disk/by-label as an alternative has worked well for me -- Stanley C.

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:36:27 -0500 (EST), Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I just wanted to say this is just a fantastic explanation of the log > file. nice job. Well, there was other stuff in the log that I skipped over because it wasn't relevant to the problem. But thanks. I am grateful to those

[SOLVED] need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:36:07 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote: > Wow! Thanks. You're welcome. I'm glad I could help. > But I need more help. See below. > ... > The log file that you examined was for the Squeeze installation, which > had no file named /etc/X11/xorg.conf. So, at first, I was wond

Re: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

2010-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:21:14 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: (...) >> Maybe there is a good comparison chart about all these methods that >> list their "pros" and "cons" :-? > Not a chart, but yes references to why uuid ... : > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364441 > http://bugs.debian

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Wayne
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:11:14PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: [...] OK, we learn a lot from the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. Your Integrated graphics card is (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 5333:8d04:1462:3908 S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266] rev 0, Mem @ 0xe100/52

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:11:14PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: [...] > > OK, we learn a lot from the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. > > Your Integrated graphics card is > > > (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 5333:8d04:1462:3908 S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 > > KM266/KL266] rev 0, Mem @ 0xe100/524288, 0xd8

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Paul E Condon
Wow! Thanks. But I need more help. See below. On 20100312_131114, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:58:08 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote: > > On 20100312_092355, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> > >> Paul, please provide the following information: > >> > >> (1) Make and model of your co

Re: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

2010-03-12 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:27:55 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > (...) > >> I'm looking for reliable information on how UUIDs are generated, and how >> their uses is intended within Squeeze, so that I can puzzle out what I >> might be doing wrong

Re: pen drive without format and can not find it

2010-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:57:44 -0430, Germana Oliveira wrote: > I have a pen drive and recently my debian can not find it because > suddenly lose its format, so debian does not recognize it, don't even > mount it. Maybe it's damaged or just died. How you tried to attach it into another computer?

Re: pen drive without format and can not find it

2010-03-12 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:57:44 -0430 Germana Oliveira wrote: > Hi!! > > I have a pen drive and recently my debian can not find it because suddenly > lose its format, so debian does not recognize it, don't even mount it. > With dmesg it says the pen drive is in sda but > #ls /dev/sda or /dev/sda1

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:18:30 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: > > No, it only means that this combination of vendor ID 104f (WB > > Electronics) and device ID 0006 (Infinity Smart) is not listed in your > > /var/lib/usbutils/usb.ids file. You can run "update-usbids" to get the > > newest version. The con

Re: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

2010-03-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:27:55 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote: > > I'm working on a computer that I am trying to make dual-boot into both > Lenny and Squeeze. As some are already aware, squeeze rewrites > /etc/fstab to replace devices like /dev/hda2 with a UUID for the > device that is a long compu

Re: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

2010-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:27:55 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: (...) > I'm looking for reliable information on how UUIDs are generated, and how > their uses is intended within Squeeze, so that I can puzzle out what I > might be doing wrong. There a FAQ about UUID here. While focused on Linux Mint, I t

Re: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

2010-03-12 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm working on a computer that I am trying to make dual-boot into both > Lenny and Squeeze. As some are already aware, squeeze rewrites > /etc/fstab to replace devices like /dev/hda2 with a UUID for the > device that is a long computer g

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Well, once you compile a driver, you have to load it, which is done by > modprobe. Removing is modprobe -r. man modprobe and man lsmod are a good > start. > Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not r

question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

2010-03-12 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm working on a computer that I am trying to make dual-boot into both Lenny and Squeeze. As some are already aware, squeeze rewrites /etc/fstab to replace devices like /dev/hda2 with a UUID for the device that is a long computer generated string. I know very little about UUIDs but I suppose they

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
Dotan Cohen wrote: Yes, we installed the Linux modules on the devices as instructed on that page, but when connecting them to the Linux box there are no '/dev/usb/tts/0' or '/dev/ttyusb0'. And you , of course, modprobe'd them? No :) I've never had to install drivers before, everyt

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> Yes, we installed the Linux modules on the devices as instructed on >> that page, but when connecting them to the Linux box there are no >> '/dev/usb/tts/0' or '/dev/ttyusb0'. > > And you , of course, modprobe'd them? > No :) I've never had to install drivers before, everything has "just worked

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
Dotan Cohen wrote: So you did what is specified in here : http://www.infinityusb.com/default.asp?show=supportdetail&ProductID=12&SupportID=27 Right? Yes, we installed the Linux modules on the devices as instructed on that page, but when connecting them to the Linux box there are no '/dev/

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:58:08 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100312_092355, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> Paul, please provide the following information: >> >> (1) Make and model of your computer > Compaq Presario S3200NX (sn MX31028632) >> (2) Make and model of your video card >

Re: Virtualbox-3.1

2010-03-12 Thread James Brown
Frank J Niertit wrote: > Hi > > First of all let me thank you for a great system. You have made my > life a lot better. But there is always a but. I cannot load > Virtualbox-3.1. I am reliant on it in order to run Windows on top of > Debian in an office environment. I cannot get people to use just

Re: Keyboard is beeping when holding Shift for long

2010-03-12 Thread Martin
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 02:16:57AM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote: > Martin wrote: >> I have Lenny 5.0.4 from DVD. >> I am using blackbox window manager and bbkeys. >> >> I am mostly working in xterm, screen (end emacs under screen). >> As I am working with some program it often happens that I 'forget'

Re: mpg123 does not play

2010-03-12 Thread Martin
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 06:25:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-11 16:59, Martin wrote: >> On Lenny installed from DVD set mpg123 will not play an >> mp3 music. It complains as follow: > > Did you build mpg123 from source? No, mpg123 is also from Debian's official DVD. Martin -- To U

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
> So you did what is specified in here : > http://www.infinityusb.com/default.asp?show=supportdetail&ProductID=12&SupportID=27 > Right? > Yes, we installed the Linux modules on the devices as instructed on that page, but when connecting them to the Linux box there are no '/dev/usb/tts/0' or '/dev/

pen drive without format and can not find it

2010-03-12 Thread Germana Oliveira
Hi!! I have a pen drive and recently my debian can not find it because suddenly lose its format, so debian does not recognize it, don't even mount it. With dmesg it says the pen drive is in sda but #ls /dev/sda or /dev/sda1 does not exist in /dev ¿? How can i find my pen drive so i can form

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
John W Foster wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul E Condon To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: need help with xorg.conf Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:42:16 -0700 I have a cheap flat screen monitor on one of my computers. I works nicely, but not perfectly with Lenny. But in a much inf

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread John W Foster
-Original Message- From: Paul E Condon To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: need help with xorg.conf Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:42:16 -0700 I have a cheap flat screen monitor on one of my computers. I works nicely, but not perfectly with Lenny. But in a much inferior way when I switch

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100312_102211, John W Foster wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Paul E Condon > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Hi Paul: > I read thru the install log from xorg & it looks like everything is > doing as it should. I am wondering if this new flat screen is a > letterbox shaped scr

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
Dotan Cohen wrote: Please detail. I am trying to use this device with the drivers and software from the same site: http://www.infinityusb.com/default.asp?show=productsdetail&ProductID=12 When I run the ntfytool it tells me that it cannot find the device. So you did what is specified

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:18:30 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> No, it only means that this combination of vendor ID 104f (WB >> Electronics) and device ID 0006 (Infinity Smart) is not listed in your >> /var/lib/usbutils/usb.ids file. You can run "update-usbids" to get the >> newest version. The content

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Please detail. > I am trying to use this device with the drivers and software from the same site: http://www.infinityusb.com/default.asp?show=productsdetail&ProductID=12 When I run the ntfytool it tells me that it cannot find the device. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com

Re: mpg123 does not play

2010-03-12 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 March 2010, Ron Johnson was heard to say: > strace? $ strace mpg123 Downloads/2008-10-05_041_thanks_for_the_inflationary_depression.mp3 execve("/usr/bin/mpg123", ["mpg123", "Downloads/2008-10-05_041_thanks_"...], [/* 31 vars */]) = 0

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
Dotan Cohen wrote: Are you able to use the device? No, but I am not sure if the problem is with the device drivers or with the software that I am trying to use to operate it. Please detail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Are you able to use the device? > No, but I am not sure if the problem is with the device drivers or with the software that I am trying to use to operate it. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all

Re: China Netcom SIP

2010-03-12 Thread Chris Davies
randall wrote: > i'm setting up some SIP phones in China and we have a broadband > connection with China Netcom. > there seems to be some filtering going on by the ISP, does anybody have > experience with China Netcom and knows if there are any restrictions > concerning the connection type? If i

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
Dotan Cohen wrote: No, it only means that this combination of vendor ID 104f (WB Electronics) and device ID 0006 (Infinity Smart) is not listed in your /var/lib/usbutils/usb.ids file. You can run "update-usbids" to get the newest version. The contents of the usb.ids have no influence on the proce

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
> No, it only means that this combination of vendor ID 104f (WB > Electronics) and device ID 0006 (Infinity Smart) is not listed in your > /var/lib/usbutils/usb.ids file. You can run "update-usbids" to get the > newest version. The contents of the usb.ids have no influence on the > process by which

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Paul E Condon
More information On 20100312_092355, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:42:16 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > I have a cheap flat screen monitor on one of my computers. I works > > nicely, but not perfectly with Lenny. But in a much inferior way when > > I switch to Squeeze.

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:13:04 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: Hello Camaleón, > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:35:16 +, Brad Rogers wrote: > > IM(admittedly limted)E, if X doesn't get the resolution right, xrandr > > won't be able to detect it any better. > To be sincere, nowadays that X in "dinamically"

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100312_092355, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:42:16 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > I have a cheap flat screen monitor on one of my computers. I works > > nicely, but not perfectly with Lenny. But in a much inferior way when > > I switch to Squeeze. > > > > In parti

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:42:16 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote: > > I have a cheap flat screen monitor on one of my computers. I works > nicely, but not perfectly with Lenny. But in a much inferior way when > I switch to Squeeze. > > In particular: > > The screen is 1366x768 according to the user

Re: Is there DVD with non-free

2010-03-12 Thread John Hasler
Martin writes: > Does anybody produce a DVD with packages that are not included in > official DVD set released by Debian? The problem is that non-free includes packages with all sorts of wacky licenses including some that such a DVD would violate. A distributor would have to vet every non-free pa

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:35:16 +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:54:49 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > Hello Camaleón, > >> I would try first to get the recommended resolution (1366x...@60) by >> using "xrandr" on-the-fly to test things: > > IM(admittedly limted)E, if X doesn't g

Re: mpg123 does not play

2010-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-12 06:58, Curt Howland wrote: On Friday 12 March 2010, Martin was heard to say: On Lenny installed from DVD set mpg123 will not play an mp3 music. It complains as follow: $ mpg123 Aerodrom-Digni\ me\ visoko.mp3 [module.c:110] error: Failed to open module alsa: file not found Mar

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:39:11 -0500 (EST), Clive McBarton wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> If you can't figure out how to make grub use the "list of sectors" >> method, I once again suggest that you switch to lilo. > > The whole point is to make the system secure. So let's look at lilo's > secur

Re: mpg123 does not play

2010-03-12 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 March 2010, Martin was heard to say: > On Lenny installed from DVD set mpg123 will not play an > mp3 music. It complains as follow: > > $ mpg123 Aerodrom-Digni\ me\ visoko.mp3 > [module.c:110] error: Failed to open module alsa: file not

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:54:49 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: Hello Camaleón, > I would try first to get the recommended resolution (1366x...@60) by > using "xrandr" on-the-fly to test things: IM(admittedly limted)E, if X doesn't get the resolution right, xrandr won't be able to detect it any bette

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:37:58 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> If it works for Brussels, it should work everywhere on the continent. >> I'd file a wishlist bug at gnome.org, to see what They say. >> > > There is a bug report for that... opened since 2.004 :-) > > *** > Bug

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-12 05:31, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Camaleón wrote: >>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:06:15 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: >>> >>> Camaleón wrote: >>> > For Provo, indeed, there is expanded information. > That is what I precisely do, bu

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:31:06 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> Camaleón wrote: >> > > >>> Maybe you need another applet/desklet/widget that can handle your >>> location forectasts :-? >>> >>> >> Maybe. Anyway, it is not normal. That is a problem, as I am onl

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:37:58 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > If it works for Brussels, it should work everywhere on the continent. > I'd file a wishlist bug at gnome.org, to see what They say. There is a bug report for that... opened since 2.004 :-) *** Bug 147719 - Forecast for other Regions of th

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:31:06 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Maybe you need another applet/desklet/widget that can handle your >> location forectasts :-? >> > Maybe. Anyway, it is not normal. That is a problem, as I am only > concerned with the weather in my country. Note tha

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread steinm
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:06:15PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:06:21 +0100, Stuckey wrote: > > > > > Works fine in Poland. > > > > >>> Nice to hear this. I do not even have the `Forecast' tab in my applet! > >>> >

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-12 05:31, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:06:15 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: For Provo, indeed, there is expanded information. That is what I precisely do, but it `only' shows me City, Last update, Condition, Sky, T

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-12 05:16, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-12 05:01, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] For what town/city? Does www.weather.com show the forecast? For sure. Simply visit http://www.weather.com/weather/today/Liege+Belgium+BEXX0011?lswe=liege&from=

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:06:15 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> Camaleón wrote: >> > > >>> For Provo, indeed, there is expanded information. >>> >>> >> That is what I precisely do, but it `only' shows me City, Last update, >> Condition, Sky, Temperature, Feel

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:06:15 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> For Provo, indeed, there is expanded information. >> > That is what I precisely do, but it `only' shows me City, Last update, > Condition, Sky, Temperature, Feels like, Dew point, Relative humidity, > Wind, Pressure

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-12 05:01, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] >>> For what town/city? Does www.weather.com show the forecast? >>> >> For sure. Simply visit >> http://www.weather.com/weather/today/Liege+Belgium+BEXX0011?lswe=liege&from=searchbox_localwx >> >> .

Re: disable shutdown in System menu in gnome (not splash screen)

2010-03-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
Maria McKinley wrote: Hello all, I cannot believe how difficult this is to figure out. In Debian Lenny, Shut Down appears in the System menu in the top panel by default, for all users. In Debian Squeeze, this does not appear to be the case. I have looked in every gnome configuration file and

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-12 05:01, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] For what town/city? Does www.weather.com show the forecast? For sure. Simply visit http://www.weather.com/weather/today/Liege+Belgium+BEXX0011?lswe=liege&from=searchbox_localwx . I do not understand. It's obvious, real

Re: Getting no reply from this mailing list

2010-03-12 Thread Lisi
On Friday 12 March 2010 02:30:01 S.D.A. wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 02:28:45PM +, Lisi uttered: > > On Thursday 11 March 2010 13:04:03 Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:51:26AM -0500, S.D.A. wrote: > > > > I doubt it. GMail recognizes e-mail from the owner of the account a

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:06:21 +0100, Stuckey wrote: > > Works fine in Poland. >>> Nice to hear this. I do not even have the `Forecast' tab in my applet! >>> > > >> I don't either, but I would like to. Does anyone know how to get it? >>

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-12 01:54, Terence wrote: >> On 11 March 2010 23:41, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> (Let's get this back on the list!) >> >> If you want weather forecasts (in Europe or anywhere else) try: >> >> http://www.accuweather.com >> >> These people give an excellent services and for

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Merciadri Luca
John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:54:37 + > Terence dijo: > > >> On 11 March 2010 23:41, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> (Let's get this back on the list!) >>> >> If you want weather forecasts (in Europe or anywhere else) try: >> >> http://www.accuweather.com >> >> Th

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: > (Let's get this back on the list!) > > On 2010-03-11 17:29, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 2010-03-11 15:37, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, From http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/16726.html, it appears to be possible to show the weather

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:06:21 +0100, Stuckey wrote: >>> Works fine in Poland. >>> >>> >> Nice to hear this. I do not even have the `Forecast' tab in my applet! > I don't either, but I would like to. Does anyone know how to get it? You have to "right-click" on the applet and select "Details" to di

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-12 03:31, daniele wrote: On 03/12/10 07:42, Paul E Condon wrote: I have a cheap flat screen monitor on one of my computers. I works nicely, but not perfectly with Lenny. But in a much inferior way when I switch to Squeeze. In particular: The screen is 1366x768 according to the user

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:42:16 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: (...) > The screen is 1366x768 according to the user manual that came with it. > Under Lenny, X chooses to run it at 1280x768 which is OK, but Under > Squeeze, X chooses 1024x768 which makes things that should be circle > into broad elipse

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-12 01:54, Terence wrote: On 11 March 2010 23:41, Ron Johnson wrote: (Let's get this back on the list!) If you want weather forecasts (in Europe or anywhere else) try: http://www.accuweather.com These people give an excellent services and forecasts geared to your local address and

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread daniele
On 03/12/10 07:42, Paul E Condon wrote: I have a cheap flat screen monitor on one of my computers. I works nicely, but not perfectly with Lenny. But in a much inferior way when I switch to Squeeze. In particular: The screen is 1366x768 according to the user manual that came with it. Under Lenny

Re: Virtualbox-3.1

2010-03-12 Thread Johann Spies
Frank, Download the spesific package from the website (http://www.virtualbox.org). Then 'sudo dpkg -i And run it (VirtualBox). Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4599 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, thes

Re: Weather forecast through applet not available in Europe?

2010-03-12 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:54:37 + Terence dijo: >On 11 March 2010 23:41, Ron Johnson wrote: >> (Let's get this back on the list!) > >If you want weather forecasts (in Europe or anywhere else) try: > >http://www.accuweather.com > >These people give an excellent services and forecasts geared to y