replacing hardware raid with software raid

2010-05-06 Thread Andreas Sachs
Hi, i created a raid-5 array with a LSI MegaRaid 150-6 controller (i used 4 sata drives). Is it possible to use the array without the hardware raid controller with linux software raid/ mdadm? I think a read something about that, but i can't find it anymore. Mdadm does not autodetect the array.

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-06 Thread godo
On 05/07/2010 05:20 AM, T o n g wrote: Hi, Having upgraded iceweasel, I am no longer able to call firefox or mozilla from command line any more. I don't mind firefox is called iceweasel or whatever in Debian, but entirely stopping me from starting firefox is something I don't feel comfortable.

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-07 05:20 +0200, T o n g wrote: > Having upgraded iceweasel, I am no longer able to call firefox or mozilla > from command line any more. I don't mind firefox is called iceweasel or > whatever in Debian, but entirely stopping me from starting firefox is > something I don't feel comfor

Re: Gnome 2.30 icons (was: Has Iceweasel adopted Chrome's icons?)

2010-05-06 Thread Freeman
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 05:49:11PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 14:43 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > You could try downloading the 2.28 icons and placing them under > > ~/.icons/gnome. Hopefully they will override the system-wide 2.30 icons. > > Thanks for the suggestion. I found the

Re: [Semi-OT] Accessing gmail from Python

2010-05-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/06/2010 09:01 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: I already know how to use the "regular" POP3 class, which I use on a semi-regular basis for examining/zapping mails which fetchmail barfs on. I've Googled my fingers off, but there are no hints as to what the keyfile and certfile are. mayb

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-06 Thread Gergely 'Dinchamion' Fazekas
While in certain situations it might be uncomfortable, but I use Chrome and didn't really encounter any problems. But I agree that it would be easier to integrate the default browser as a variable, that could be called on by applications, instead of calling on a specific one. However, I su

Re: network setup question

2010-05-06 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Thanks to all who replied.  I'm starting to zero in on this now. > > A few more details: > [snip] > > on server 1: > eth0: inet addr:207.154.13.48  Bcast:207.154.13.63  Mask:255.255.255.224 > (first netblock) > server1:/home/milesf# route >

Re: Linux Zimbra front ends - was Re: Kde 3.5 ... (Maybe OT)

2010-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,06.May.10, 22:36:43, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > For a web client, it is outstanding, but it still has serious > limitations to be an Outlook replacement and we are looking to replace > many thousands of Outlook installations with this project. We need to > offer them a near replacement

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-06 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 07 May 2010 03:20:07 +, T o n g wrote: > Having upgraded iceweasel, I am no longer able to call firefox or > mozilla from command line any more. I don't mind firefox is called > iceweasel or whatever in Debian, but entirely stopping me from starting > firefox is something I don't feel

no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-06 Thread T o n g
Hi, Having upgraded iceweasel, I am no longer able to call firefox or mozilla from command line any more. I don't mind firefox is called iceweasel or whatever in Debian, but entirely stopping me from starting firefox is something I don't feel comfortable. Please comment. PS: $ apt-cache pol

Linux Zimbra front ends - was Re: Kde 3.5 ... (Maybe OT)

2010-05-06 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 07:43 +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote: > On Thu, 06 May 2010 22:08:05 -0400 > "John A. Sullivan III" wrote: > > > I even hesitate with testing but we are so desperate to > > make Kontact work with Zimbra that we would take a chance - John > > Er.. why not use Zimbra's own clie

Re: Kde 3.5 ... (Maybe OT)

2010-05-06 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Thu, 06 May 2010 22:08:05 -0400 "John A. Sullivan III" wrote: > I even hesitate with testing but we are so desperate to > make Kontact work with Zimbra that we would take a chance - John Er.. why not use Zimbra's own client ? it available for Linux as well and it works best with Zimbra server

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 16:52 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 16:38, John A. Sullivan III > wrote: > >> > > >> > >> Fixed for KDE 4.5: > >> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172766 > > > > Is 4.5 or even 4.4 even making into Squeeze? > > 4.4 is in Sid now, and we aren't fro

Re: [Semi-OT] Accessing gmail from Python

2010-05-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
> > >> > I already know how to use the "regular" POP3 class, which I use on a > semi-regular basis for examining/zapping mails which fetchmail barfs on. > I've Googled my fingers off, but there are no hints as to what the keyfile > and certfile are. > > maybe this link can help http://www.andrews-

Re: [Semi-OT] Accessing gmail from Python

2010-05-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/06/2010 07:19 PM, Cousin Stanley wrote: Does anyone have an example of how to do this? You might start by python import smtplib import email help( smtplib ) help( email ) The newsgroup comp.lang.python can be very helpful especiall

Re: Suggestion/Question for the approx apt(itutde) proxy daemon

2010-05-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100505_184737, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hi Eric, > > I just started using approx. I'm really impressed. It's a great > piece of work. Thanks! > > Here's a question: Is it permissible/possible to have two (or more) > different mirrors listed as servers for the same set of archives? > > for e

Re: [Semi-OT] Accessing gmail from Python

2010-05-06 Thread Cousin Stanley
> Does anyone have an example of how to do this? > You might start by python import smtplib import email help( smtplib ) help( email ) The newsgroup comp.lang.python can be very helpful especially if you've done a bit of prior research into y

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 16:38, John A. Sullivan III wrote: >> > >> >> Fixed for KDE 4.5: >> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172766 > > Is 4.5 or even 4.4 even making into Squeeze? 4.4 is in Sid now, and we aren't frozen or anything, so I don't know why it wouldn't be in Squeeze. For future v

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread John A. Sullivan III
> > > > Fixed for KDE 4.5: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172766 Is 4.5 or even 4.4 even making into Squeeze? I was under the impression it was not. We are having an unbelievable nightmare getting any Linux email client to work well as a full (mail/calendar/contacts) front end to Zimbra.

Re: FW: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-06 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 6 May 2010 23:31:15 +0300 Alexander Batischev wrote: > > These days, the init.d script dependencies in Squeeze are quite > > complete, so complete that it is actually possible to run all the > > init.d scripts in parallell based on these dependencies.  If you want > > to test your Squeeze

Re: [Semi-OT] Accessing gmail from Python

2010-05-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/06/2010 03:34 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Does anyone have an example of how to do this? Google hasn't helped, specifically at telling me what the keyfile and certfile should be. Google *did*, though, help me with fetchmail, so now I ha

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Facundo Aguilera
El Jueves 06 Mayo 2010 18:01:42 Nate Bargmann escribió: > * On 2010 06 May 09:45 -0500, Facundo Aguilera wrote: > > El Jueves 06 Mayo 2010 10:22:09 Nate Bargmann escribi?: > > > I'm tired of typing this time and again: > > > > > > No speaker beep in Konsole--dev says, "Too bad." > > > > Konsole

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 06 May 16:27 -0500, Facundo Aguilera wrote: > El Jueves 06 Mayo 2010 18:01:42 Nate Bargmann escribió: > > * On 2010 06 May 09:45 -0500, Facundo Aguilera wrote: > > > El Jueves 06 Mayo 2010 10:22:09 Nate Bargmann escribi?: > > > > I'm tired of typing this time and again: > > > > > > > >

Re: gnome panel tray icons transparancy

2010-05-06 Thread Steven
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 07:24 +, Camaleón wrote: > (...) > > A quick test: drop/move the non-transparent icons anywhere in the panel > but "notification-tray" to check if they keep transparency or still show > with a solid background. > > > I'll have another look on Thursday, will post if I

Re: Newsreaders (was: Re: How to flush cache of certain disk?)

2010-05-06 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Camale?n wrote: I am using a separate application for newsreader ("Pan²"). I'm very happy with Mutt but as per Pan, I could not say the same :-). I find it a bit memory hog (48 MiB) and the version I am running has an annoying bug that makes me appear like I am writing from

Re: FW: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-06 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On Thu, May 6 at 23:11, Andrei Popescu penned: > - Forwarded message from Petter Reinholdtsen > - > > Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 21:11:56 +0200 From: Petter Reinholdtsen > To: debian-de...@lists.debian.org Subject: > Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing > Orga

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 06 May 09:45 -0500, Facundo Aguilera wrote: > El Jueves 06 Mayo 2010 10:22:09 Nate Bargmann escribi?: > > > > > I'm tired of typing this time and again: > > > > No speaker beep in Konsole--dev says, "Too bad." > > > > Konsole -> settings -> notifications -> bell in current session -

Re: [Semi-OT] Accessing gmail from Python

2010-05-06 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > Does anyone have an example of how to do this?  Google hasn't helped, > specifically at telling me what the keyfile and certfile should be. > > Google *did*, though, help me with fetchmail, so now I have the relevant pem > files. > > $ dir .cert

Re: list not upgraded packages

2010-05-06 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:23 AM, T o n g wrote: > > I was able to see a list of not upgraded packages, but not now: > % aptitude upgrade > Resolving dependencies... > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. > Ne

Re: FW: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-06 Thread Alexander Batischev
> These days, the init.d script dependencies in Squeeze are quite > complete, so complete that it is actually possible to run all the > init.d scripts in parallell based on these dependencies.  If you want > to test your Squeeze system, make sure dependency based boot > sequencing is enabled, and a

Re: merge alternate pages from two PDF files in to one

2010-05-06 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Thu,06.May.10, 15:48:17, H.S. wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> Can somebody describe how to merge two PDF files into one so that odd >>> pages are from the first file and the even ones are from the second? I >>> am looking at pdftk, but it is not obvious to me if

Re: Re: Password messed up

2010-05-06 Thread Don
So review your "/var/log/syslog", "/var/log/auth.log" and "~/.xession- errors", there should be something in there saying why the login fails :-? What desktop are you using (GNOME, KDE...)? Greetings, -- Camaleón (Sorry for the delay, but unavoidable) I am using KDE4 desktop. Reviewing the

Re: DVD Paranoia?

2010-05-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/06/2010 11:57 AM, markus reichelt wrote: * Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/01/2010 04:50 AM, markus reichelt wrote: * Ron Johnson wrote: The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old "movie" DVD-Rs and they're all at some point failing. Try another drive (best would be a dvd bur

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 18:14, Dotan Cohen wrote: > System Settings -> Input and Output > RightClick -> New -> Global Shortcut -> Command It's called "Input Actions". But yes, this works. Still, the current way things are done are less than ideal. Thus: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23661

[Semi-OT] Accessing gmail from Python

2010-05-06 Thread Ron Johnson
Does anyone have an example of how to do this? Google hasn't helped, specifically at telling me what the keyfile and certfile should be. Google *did*, though, help me with fetchmail, so now I have the relevant pem files. $ dir .certs/ total 48 drwxr-xr-x 2 me me 4096 2010-05-06 15:13:16

FW: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
- Forwarded message from Petter Reinholdtsen - Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 21:11:56 +0200 From: Petter Reinholdtsen To: debian-de...@lists.debian.org Subject: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing Organization: University of Oslo, Norway User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gn

Re: Newsreaders (was: Re: How to flush cache of certain disk?)

2010-05-06 Thread Freeman
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 04:26:43PM +, Camaleón wrote: ... > > Yeah, that's exactly what I'm intended to do: switch to mutt. What news > > reader do you mean? Is it some kind of plugin for mutt, or is it > > separate application at all? Excuse me for offtop, you can answer > > privately if yo

Re: merge alternate pages from two PDF files in to one

2010-05-06 Thread H.S.
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,06.May.10, 15:48:17, H.S. wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Can somebody describe how to merge two PDF files into one so that odd >> pages are from the first file and the even ones are from the second? I >> am looking at pdftk, but it is not obvious to me if or how it can do thi

Re: Aliases with `-'

2010-05-06 Thread Merciadri Luca
Sven Joachim wrote: > Syntax highlighting in Emacs' shell-script-mode leaves much to be > desired, so this is not really a bad sign. Does it work if you leave > out the apostrophes? > It worked anyway. But emacs confused me. Sorry! -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

Re: Aliases with `-'

2010-05-06 Thread Merciadri Luca
Alexander Batischev wrote: > Small note about highlighting — if you add quotes, emacs (and vim, and > any other editor with syntax highlighting as well) thinks that it's a > string and highlight it. If alias name isn't highlighted that doesn't > mean that it won't work. So don't think about highlig

Re: merge alternate pages from two PDF files in to one

2010-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,06.May.10, 15:48:17, H.S. wrote: > Hello. > > Can somebody describe how to merge two PDF files into one so that odd > pages are from the first file and the even ones are from the second? I > am looking at pdftk, but it is not obvious to me if or how it can do this. pdftk can split split an

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 21:27, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Mine is in Hebrew, but there should be a "View" menu, then "Previews". Click > it! Funny, never noticed that. The setting is not persistant over all directories, though. > Settings -> Dolphin Settings -> Editable Address Bar (again, > transla

vmware server and 2.6.33

2010-05-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Following the established ritual of having to change the vmware server to be able to run under a new kernel (2.6.33), I installed 2.6.33.3 from kernel.org and followed the directions from user NeBot here: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/257472 and that worked. Furthermore I added to

merge alternate pages from two PDF files in to one

2010-05-06 Thread H.S.
Hello. Can somebody describe how to merge two PDF files into one so that odd pages are from the first file and the even ones are from the second? I am looking at pdftk, but it is not obvious to me if or how it can do this. Thanks. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corre

Re: How to stop Firefox from displaying large favicon?

2010-05-06 Thread John Hasler
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > What it does have, though, is a special kind of security certificate > that displays the name of the company (in green background, at least > in the default theme). What it seems to actually have is a bit of Javascript that sticks some crap in the address bar. Nothi

Re: md does a monthly resync?? (was Re: Questions about RAID 6)

2010-05-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Ter, 04 Mai 2010, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: martin f krafft wrote: RAID is not a backup solution, it's an availability measure. But as data availability goes up by using RAID doesn't the need for backing up that same data go down? Or is this just semantics? RAI

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Either I am too stupid or both dolphin and konqui stopped showing > previews of picture files instead of the generic "image" icon. > Mine is in Hebrew, but there should be a "View" menu, then "Previews". Click it! > Also, dolphin cycles between address bar and weird-apple-esque > click-bars. E

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 19:19, Patricia Fraser wrote: > The thing I miss most in KDE4 is: pausing the cursor over a music > file in Konq File previews, good point! Either I am too stupid or both dolphin and konqui stopped showing previews of picture files instead of the generic "image" icon. Al

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 6 May 2010 20:19, Patricia Fraser wrote: > Hi Dotan, > >> This is what I'd like to know! It is very subjective, but KDE 3 was >> very intuitive in some aspects. Tell me what is not intuitive in KDE >> 4.4 and I will file the bugs. Thanks, this is an important one! I >> agree that many things ar

Re: Lost the auto-upgrade applet

2010-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 May 2010 19:06:21 +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > When I first installed debian, I got an auto-updater that would > periodically offer me the chance to upgrade based on what was out of > date. This has stopped appearing now, how do I get it back? I'm using > Gnome and it appeared in the n

Lost the auto-upgrade applet

2010-05-06 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, When I first installed debian, I got an auto-updater that would periodically offer me the chance to upgrade based on what was out of date. This has stopped appearing now, how do I get it back? I'm using Gnome and it appeared in the notification window by the clock. Thanks! Jim

Re: Aliases with `-'

2010-05-06 Thread Alexander Batischev
Small note about highlighting — if you add quotes, emacs (and vim, and any other editor with syntax highlighting as well) thinks that it's a string and highlight it. If alias name isn't highlighted that doesn't mean that it won't work. So don't think about highlighting — everything works ;) Since

Re: Aliases with `-'

2010-05-06 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 07:31:28PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I would like to define an alias with some `-' characters into it, in my > .bashrc. For example, if `this-is-my-alias' is my alias, I would use > > == > alias 'this-is-my-alias'='some command to achieve' > == Hello, It does work he

Re: Aliases with `-'

2010-05-06 Thread Alexander Batischev
On 6 May 2010 20:31, Merciadri Luca wrote: > It simply does not work. Why? I tried without `'' but emacs then stops > highlighting the word, which is no good sign. Thanks. Don't mind about highlighting — alias defined in away like that: $ alias hello-world="echo 'hello world'" will work. Tested

Re: Aliases with `-'

2010-05-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-06 19:31 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I would like to define an alias with some `-' characters into it, in my > .bashrc. For example, if `this-is-my-alias' is my alias, I would use > > == > alias 'this-is-my-alias'='some command to achieve' > == > > It simply does not work. Why? Don'

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Patricia Fraser
Hi Dotan, > This is what I'd like to know! It is very subjective, but KDE 3 was > very intuitive in some aspects. Tell me what is not intuitive in KDE > 4.4 and I will file the bugs. Thanks, this is an important one! I > agree that many things are _not_ intuitive. The thing I miss most in KDE4 is

TOra with Oracle support (was: Re: Kde 3.5 ...)

2010-05-06 Thread Cassiano Leal
On 6 May 2010 14:06, deloptes wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> >> Yes, KDE 4 seems to be much better for the average Joe. But that is >> the reason that power users suffer at the moment! A.Joe already has >> Gnome... >> >> > > Exactly! OK, I'll look forward to test this weekend. > Main issue for m

Re: Current through USB bus

2010-05-06 Thread Merciadri Luca
Thanks for all your answers about the current through USB bus. That answered (to) my question. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: Ope

Aliases with `-'

2010-05-06 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, I would like to define an alias with some `-' characters into it, in my .bashrc. For example, if `this-is-my-alias' is my alias, I would use == alias 'this-is-my-alias'='some command to achieve' == It simply does not work. Why? I tried without `'' but emacs then stops highlighting the word,

Re: How to schedule for a repeated task?

2010-05-06 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 08:48:48AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote: > I tried as the followings : > #autoexpect -c > > #telnet 172.16.17.160 > ->command1 > ->logout > #exit > It has produced an script named 'script.exp' . When I run this script , I > see automatic telnet to the VxWorks remote node and

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> You still have gnustep, xfce, lxde, no using any or simply never upgrade. > > I have looked at all those, in addition to KDE 4 and Gnome.  None appeals to > me.  Each has something that I strongly dislike or does not have something > that I like and use a lot. Please tell me what KDE 4.4 is mis

Re: Current through USB bus

2010-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 May 2010 13:00:19 -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> How can I know how much current goes through each USB port for its >> related device(s)? Thanks. > > Try lsusb -v > > There will be a MaxPower listed for the device Nice! :-) st

Re: Current through USB bus

2010-05-06 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, How can I know how much current goes through each USB port for its related device(s)? Thanks. Try lsusb -v There will be a MaxPower listed for the device -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread deloptes
Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Yes, KDE 4 seems to be much better for the average Joe. But that is > the reason that power users suffer at the moment! A.Joe already has > Gnome... > > Exactly! OK, I'll look forward to test this weekend. Main issue for me is tora with oracle, but also a bunch of other

Re: Current through USB bus

2010-05-06 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/06/2010 07:51 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, How can I know how much current goes through each USB port for its related device(s)? Thanks. You can use a voltmeter; after all, it's working with electricity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Current through USB bus

2010-05-06 Thread Ryan Manikowski
On 5/6/2010 1:02 PM, markus reichelt wrote: > * Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> How can I know how much current goes through each USB port for its >> related device(s)? Thanks. >> > Via software: zero chance. > Check the manufacturer website and obtain a copy of the manual for your moth

Re: How to stop Firefox from displaying large favicon?

2010-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 May 2010 11:15:30 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Camaleón wrote the following on 05/06/2010 10:58 AM: >> It works fine here (icewasel and lenny). >> >> browser.chrome.favicons → false browser.chrome.site_icons → false >> >> And after restarting the browser, no more favicons. >> >

Re: list not upgraded packages

2010-05-06 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> T o n g : >% aptitude upgrade >Resolving dependencies... >No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. >0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. >How can I know which packages are not upgraded? apt-get upgrade tells and prompt you. apt-get is no more worse

Re: Current through USB bus

2010-05-06 Thread markus reichelt
* Merciadri Luca wrote: > How can I know how much current goes through each USB port for its > related device(s)? Thanks. Via software: zero chance. You need to measure the current directly at the port in question while the device attached to it is in use. How that is done exactly is up to you.

Re: How to stop Firefox from displaying large favicon?

2010-05-06 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > I have looked for ways to fix this problem several times in the passed few > months and have had no success. > > Recently several companies have started displaying a large favicon in the > address bar when you go to their site. In several ca

Re: DVD Paranoia?

2010-05-06 Thread markus reichelt
* Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/01/2010 04:50 AM, markus reichelt wrote: > >* Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >>The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old "movie" > >>DVD-Rs and they're all at some point failing. > > > >Try another drive (best would be a dvd burner). > > > >Apart from that, yo

Current through USB bus

2010-05-06 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, How can I know how much current goes through each USB port for its related device(s)? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description:

Re: Gnome 2.30 icons (was: Has Iceweasel adopted Chrome's icons?)

2010-05-06 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 14:43 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > You could try downloading the 2.28 icons and placing them under > ~/.icons/gnome. Hopefully they will override the system-wide 2.30 icons. Thanks for the suggestion. I found the old icons at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-icon-t

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 06 May 2010 07:59:44 Ana Guerrero wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 03:17:43AM -0300, Jorge Gonçalves wrote: > > Hello! > > > > First, thank you for the great distro that is Debian, one of the best. > > > > I would like to suggest you some way so that the users keep on using > > the good

DIF G4E620-N MB

2010-05-06 Thread David Baron
Considering getting one of these because it has ISA slots (maybe the only P4/DDR board around that has them!). Businesses buy them to keep legacy HW. Are there any Debian issues with these boards? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Redirect stdout without clobbering?

2010-05-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
> The double > (>>) operator? > Yes! > I'd also recommend that you check out tee and tee -a. > Nice, that's not what I need here, but I do have use for it in a script that's been giving me trouble if it will output to a shell variable. Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-wh

Re: Redirect stdout without clobbering?

2010-05-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 6 May 2010 19:31, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Quoting Dotan Cohen : > >> Is there a way to redirect stdout to a file without clobbering its >> possibly-existing contents? Rather, the output should be appended to >> the end of the file. Thanks. > >  use ">>" instead of ">". > > rday > > Great, th

Re: Redirect stdout without clobbering?

2010-05-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Quoting Dotan Cohen : Is there a way to redirect stdout to a file without clobbering its possibly-existing contents? Rather, the output should be appended to the end of the file. Thanks. use ">>" instead of ">". rday -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Redirect stdout without clobbering?

2010-05-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 07:26:30PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is there a way to redirect stdout to a file without clobbering its > possibly-existing contents? Rather, the output should be appended to > the end of the file. Thanks. The double > (>>) operator? I'd also recommend that you check out

Re: How to stop Firefox from displaying large favicon?

2010-05-06 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Thu, 06 May 2010 11:15:30 -0500 Dennis Wicks wrote: > > Well, thanks for the reply, but that doesn't help in my > case. Try the following URL and see what you get. > >https://www.busey.com/home/home > > Thanks! > Dennis On Chrome, it doesnt show any favicon. On Firefox 3.5.9, it d

Re: How to stop Firefox from displaying large favicon?

2010-05-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:15:30AM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > >It works fine here (icewasel and lenny). > > > >browser.chrome.favicons → false > >browser.chrome.site_icons → false > > > >And after restarting the browser, no more favicons. > > > > Well, thanks for the reply, but that doesn't

Newsreaders (was: Re: How to flush cache of certain disk?)

2010-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 May 2010 19:04:48 +0300, Alexander Batischev wrote: > On 6 May 2010 18:53, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Mmm, I still fail to see your point for performing a "sync" operation. >> Umount won't allow the device to be unmounted if it's busy (writing/ >> reading data) so it's a single and safe

Re: How to stop Firefox from displaying large favicon?

2010-05-06 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qui, 06 Mai 2010, Dennis Wicks wrote: Well, thanks for the reply, but that doesn't help in my case. Try the following URL and see what you get. https://www.busey.com/home/home I had never seen a favicon that wasn't the standard size. And with Firefox 3.6.3, even this site has a st

Redirect stdout without clobbering?

2010-05-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
Is there a way to redirect stdout to a file without clobbering its possibly-existing contents? Rather, the output should be appended to the end of the file. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 18:22, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Can you try with rekonq or even Firefox? Firefox is a real memory pig. Iceweasel does not have these issues, but then I almost never use it so the test pool is a _lot_ smaller. Never tried rekonq, I can do so tonight. > Try running "top > top.

grub-pc should add resume as kernel/boot-option to make hibernate work

2010-05-06 Thread Darshaka Pathirana
Hi! I was just about to file a bug against grub-pc but I wanted to hear your opinion first. I've installed Debian/Squeeze with the standard+desktop+notebook-option (whats the name of this menu btw? tasksel?). So Gnome got installed and everything runs fine. The only thing which did not work out

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> What browser? > > Konqui. Is there any other browser on earth? ;) > And yes, this is true for both KHTML & Webkit. > Can you try with rekonq or even Firefox? Firefox is a real memory pig. >> What does top show? > > Nothing I could see as the system is locked up during that time. > Try runnin

Re: How to stop Firefox from displaying large favicon?

2010-05-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Camaleón wrote the following on 05/06/2010 10:58 AM: On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:40:15 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: (...) Anyway, can anyone tell me how to get rid of these eyesores? I have already set browser.chrome.favicons and browser.chrome.site_icons to false and browser.chrome.image_icons.max_s

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 18:14, Dotan Cohen wrote: > It works! I will give this way a try at home. Promise :) Richard PS: If I forget, please nag. PPS: Thanks for caring about these issues so much. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 18:08, Dotan Cohen wrote: > What browser? Konqui. Is there any other browser on earth? ;) And yes, this is true for both KHTML & Webkit. > Is it only on specific sites? While some sites seem to trigger it more often, this happens with all sites. > Flash? Not if I can

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I dare anyone to create a new application hotkey without using google ;) > Why this feature can not be accessed from System Settings directly > is beyond me. And I mean _creating_, not editing existing ones. > My system is in Hebrew, so this is translated: System Settings -> Keyboard and Mouse

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
> On a Phenom X2 with 4 GiB RAM and a pretty new GFX card whose name > I don't remember, I get random hangs while doing nothing more than light > surfing with some minimal background activity. What browser? Is it only on specific sites? Flash? Heavy Javascript or even Java? What does top show? Ca

Re: How to flush cache of certain disk?

2010-05-06 Thread Alexander Batischev
On 6 May 2010 18:53, Camaleón wrote: >>> I never do that way. I always first "umount" the device and then, I >>> remove the stick, but not the reverse. Removable media has to be done >>> that way, to prevent data loss or flash drive damage, or that is what >>> manufacturers say :-? >> >> Of course,

Re: How to stop Firefox from displaying large favicon?

2010-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:40:15 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: (...) > Anyway, can anyone tell me how to get rid of these eyesores? I have > already set browser.chrome.favicons and browser.chrome.site_icons to > false and browser.chrome.image_icons.max_size to 0, but no difference! It works fine here (

Re: How to flush cache of certain disk?

2010-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 May 2010 18:04:41 +0300, Alexander Batischev wrote: (...) >> I never do that way. I always first "umount" the device and then, I >> remove the stick, but not the reverse. Removable media has to be done >> that way, to prevent data loss or flash drive damage, or that is what >> manufact

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 15:22, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Other things that just don't seem inuitive *for me* that were in KDE > 3.5. I dare anyone to create a new application hotkey without using google ;) Why this feature can not be accessed from System Settings directly is beyond me. And I mean _c

How to stop Firefox from displaying large favicon?

2010-05-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have looked for ways to fix this problem several times in the passed few months and have had no success. Recently several companies have started displaying a large favicon in the address bar when you go to their site. In several cases it takes up over half of the space in the a

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 14:59, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Please, let me know what KDE 4 is missing for you. KDE 4.4 has only a > handful of regressions from KDE 3.5.10, and they are not dealbreakers. > Some of those are addressed in KDE 4.5. Not missing as such, but there is one thing which annoys me

Re: More acroread printing problems

2010-05-06 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 15:54 +0200, deloptes wrote: > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > PageSize=24x36 -p PageRegion=A4 > > so you mean from cups or from AcroRead it's setting the option -p > PageRegion=A4 by default? acroread is setting -o PageRegion=(whatever the ppd default is) (sorry about the

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Do you know when 4.5 will be out and stable? The guys from kde seem to drop > really stable in their x.5 branches :-) > August, I think. > I am also not planning moving to kde4 unless I'm sure it's working for me. I > have a lot of custom software and I'm not sure it's working. I'll have to > t

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