Re: bandwidth measurement by process

2010-05-08 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:38, Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a tool that will measure bandwidth used by a specific > process. I'd like some sort of utility or wrapper that will answer > questions like "How much data did my network backup job push over the > wire?" > > There are many too

bandwidth measurement by process

2010-05-08 Thread Celejar
Hi, I'm looking for a tool that will measure bandwidth used by a specific process. I'd like some sort of utility or wrapper that will answer questions like "How much data did my network backup job push over the wire?" There are many tools that measure by interface / TCP port, etc, but the only th

GeForce 8400 GS: Xorg -configure fails

2010-05-08 Thread Akira Kitada
Hi, I'm trying to set up X and I tried 'Xorg -configure' but it failed with errors below. I run Sid on a home-brew machine built on a GA-EP45-DS5 Motherboard and my monitor is BenQ FP222W. I tried Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD to see how it works on the same box and it just worked without any troubles. Is

Re: Shutdown problem -- cron job related

2010-05-08 Thread Zoran Kolic
> At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the system. > Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting everything > and will now halt, goodby, I get: > process running pstree (or something like that) > shutdown aborted > At this point, the system (or at

Re: Shutdown problem -- cron job related?

2010-05-08 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 01:22, David Baron wrote: > At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the > system. > Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting > everything > and will now halt, goodby, I get: > > process running pstree (or something like that

Re: [Semi-OT] Accessing gmail from Python

2010-05-08 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Follow-up to my message above: Sorry, I take it all back. Looks like Gmail is the one and only Google service that you can't access through the GData API. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: help for a new user

2010-05-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, 9 May 2010, Alexander Batischev wrote: On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 02:02:01PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: What is an internet key and did you mean to publish it for all the world to read? Internet key is modern kind of modem. It uses mobile phone network to access. Key looks just like us

Re: [Semi-OT] Accessing gmail from Python

2010-05-08 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:34 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 fet

Re: Blank page after every page when printing PDFs with evince - Debian Lenny, CUPS, HP Paintjet (pj)

2010-05-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:59:33 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:27:35 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> I have noticed that when printing multi-page PDF files from evince on >> the GNOME desktop, using CUPS under Debian Lenny, I get a blank page >> after every page. > > It does

Re: pdftk or related: how to make a bookmark for every inserted PDF?

2010-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 08 May 2010 23:29:24 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> PDF manipulation is still very limited in Linux so don't expect the >> same manageability and easiness of Acrobat Professional or such >> programs here :-) > Mmh okay, but what I want looks basic, doesn't it? No pr

Re: Hptalx is buggy once calculator is plugged and linked

2010-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 08 May 2010 22:18:05 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> Can you see the "Awaiting Server Cmd." message in calculator's display? > Pointing this out is a good thing, but I had already tested this. > Actually, since I installed many programs in Spanish, my calculator is >

Re: help for a new user

2010-05-08 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 9.5.2010 0:13, Alexander Batischev wrote: > On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 02:02:01PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: >> What is an internet key and did you mean to publish it for all the world >> to read? > Internet key is modern kind of modem. It uses mobile phone network to access. > Key looks just

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-08 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 08 May 2010 20:35:47 consul tores wrote: > > Dotan Cohen > > Who are you in reality? Do you really think that i am going to obey your > orders? :-) Well said! And is there not a list rule that replies should go only to the list unless a copy is specifically requested? I find having

Re: pdftk or related: how to make a bookmark for every inserted PDF?

2010-05-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > PDF manipulation is still very limited in Linux so don't expect the same > manageability and easiness of Acrobat Professional or such programs > here :-) Mmh okay, but what I want looks basic, doesn't it? No problem. > That said

Re: help for a new user

2010-05-08 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 02:02:01PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > What is an internet key and did you mean to publish it for all the world > to read? Internet key is modern kind of modem. It uses mobile phone network to access. Key looks just like usual USB pendrive, but it have place for SIM ca

Re: help for a new user

2010-05-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 8 May 2010, daniele tavella wrote: I'm new on Debian. I use Ubuntu 9.04, an I found it easy. I would like use Debian, but for internet connection I use an internet key Huawey E169, and Debian 5.04 can't manage it. What is an internet key and did you mean to publish it for all the world

NIS: /etc/nsswitch seems (a bit) ignored from /usr/bin/passwd

2010-05-08 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, I have a real strange problem. We have a NIS system with Debian Lenny clients and LDAP as second system, but LDAP is not the problem here. I want, that the user have to use the passwd command (cause of cracklib support via pam). Here some facts on one client: /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd: file

Re: Automated recording of IP-Radio Streams

2010-05-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Nick Lidakis, Am 2010-05-08 15:48:17, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 09:13:12PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Hello *, > > > > can someone suggest me a LIGHT commandline tool, with which I can record > > HTTP IP-Radio (MP3 and OGG) Streams and cut it automati

Re: help for a new user

2010-05-08 Thread Alexander Batischev
Hi! On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 09:40:52PM +0200, daniele tavella wrote: > I'm new on Debian. I use Ubuntu 9.04, an I found it easy. I would like > use Debian, but for internet connection I use an internet key Huawey > E169, and Debian 5.04 can't manage it. > I'm not good on computer, but I hope someo

Re: help for a new user

2010-05-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
daniele tavella wrote: > I'm new on Debian. I use Ubuntu 9.04, an I found it easy. I would like > use Debian, Ok. > but for internet connection I use an internet key Huawey > E169, and Debian 5.04 can't manage it. > It looks like it is `Huawei E169' Did you read/try * http://ubuntuforums.org/a

Re: Hptalx is buggy once calculator is plugged and linked

2010-05-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > Before pressing "Connect" be sure your calculator is setup as described > here: > > http://hptalx.sourceforge.net/manual.shtml#AEN171 > > Can you see the "Awaiting Server Cmd." message in calculator's > display? Pointing this out

Shutdown problem -- cron job related?

2010-05-08 Thread David Baron
At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the system. Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting everything and will now halt, goodby, I get: process running pstree (or something like that) shutdown aborted At this point, the system (or at least any

Re: pdftk or related: how to make a bookmark for every inserted PDF?

2010-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 08 May 2010 20:36:21 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I have a list of n PDFs. I want them to appear in this order: PDF1, > PDF2, ..., PDFn in a big PDF file. Let's call this PDFb. (...) > I then need to append some new PDFs at the end of PDFb, without loosing > the bookmarks, and appendin

help for a new user

2010-05-08 Thread daniele tavella
I'm new on Debian. I use Ubuntu 9.04, an I found it easy. I would like use Debian, but for internet connection I use an internet key Huawey E169, and Debian 5.04 can't manage it. I'm not good on computer, but I hope someone helps me. Thanks a lot, Daniele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Automated recording of IP-Radio Streams

2010-05-08 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 09:13:12PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello *, > > can someone suggest me a LIGHT commandline tool, with which I can record > HTTP IP-Radio (MP3 and OGG) Streams and cut it automaticaly in pieces of > 60 minutes? > > Currently I do this with wget but it is the last c

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-08 Thread consul tores
2010/5/8 Dotan Cohen : > On 8 May 2010 15:32, consul tores wrote: >> the windows are absolutely useless, i can not >> use many, they have all kind of useless information; > What useless information? I'd like to fix that if you will be more specific. Who are you figuring out you are, man? >> the

Automated recording of IP-Radio Streams

2010-05-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello *, can someone suggest me a LIGHT commandline tool, with which I can record HTTP IP-Radio (MP3 and OGG) Streams and cut it automaticaly in pieces of 60 minutes? Currently I do this with wget but it is the last crap, because I can not cut exactly without loss between two cuts. Thanks, Greet

pdftk or related: how to make a bookmark for every inserted PDF?

2010-05-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a list of n PDFs. I want them to appear in this order: PDF1, PDF2, ..., PDFn in a big PDF file. Let's call this PDFb. I do not want to apply some special background, etc., or permissions when putting them all into PDFb. As n is sufficientl

Re: Copy/Paste .ps/.pdf often gives a `snippets' icon

2010-05-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Sat, 08 May 2010 16:09:14 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> When copying and pasting a .ps or a .pdf file, or a serie of such files, >> the resulting (i.e. pasted) files' icon is often the `snippets' one, >> i.e. the one which d

Re: Resources for learning Linux

2010-05-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 08 May 2010 08:54:29 -0400 (EDT), Girish Kulkarni wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:37:53 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: >> My favorite free on-line reference for general Linux knowledge is >> currently the original edition of "The Linux Cookbook", by Michael >> Stutz. Here is the link: >

Re: Copy/Paste .ps/.pdf often gives a `snippets' icon

2010-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 08 May 2010 16:09:14 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > When copying and pasting a .ps or a .pdf file, or a serie of such files, > the resulting (i.e. pasted) files' icon is often the `snippets' one, > i.e. the one which designates a broken/corrupted file. However, when > right-clicking on the

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-08 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
And now to the list. Goran, my apologies Op 08-05-10 06:49, godo schreef: > > >> >> Please do not judge KDE4 by not being a copy of KDE 3.5. If that was the >> >> case, there would be no point in making a new version anyway. The >> >> important question is whether KDE lacks functionality that shou

Re: How to schedule for a repeated task?

2010-05-08 Thread Kevin Ross
On 5/7/2010 11:10 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: node? Before? I'd really need to look at the script you are using, the one produced by the autoexpect session, but you could try either sending an extra `exit' string or sending a control-C (send \003) Take a look here¹ for more ASC

Re: Hptalx is buggy once calculator is plugged and linked

2010-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 May 2010 23:29:10 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> How about...? >> >> 1/ Pressing "O.K", instead "save", it will keep your settings only for >> the current session but it just to test if it works :-? > Impossible without modifying .hptalx, as the application direc

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-08 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat May 8 2010 08:25:07 Dotan Cohen wrote: > So long as you are not loading Qt3 libraries in addition to the Qt4 > libraries, KDE 4 is lighter on RAM than KDE 3. You can really feel it, > too. Note that many Debian KDE 3.5 installations include both QT3 and QT4, e.g. to support kdebluetooth or

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 8 May 2010 15:32, consul tores wrote: > the windows are absolutely useless, i can not > use many, they have all kind of useless information; What useless information? I'd like to fix that if you will be more specific. > the menu, needs 3 > times more clicks than 3.5; Can you be more specifi

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I'm sorry, maybe I'm to new to all this stuff and to old fashioned but isn't > the point in new version make her free of bugs, faster, lighter etc.? Whats > happened to KISS? > > When I was on Windows I hate so much when in every new version everything > was different and I was losing days to fin

Re: Procmail: re-sort all messages

2010-05-08 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 02:30:06PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > You can invoke procmail by piping an email to it. > > find $LOCAL_MAIL_DIR -type f | while read mail; do procmail < "$mail"; done That's it! Thank you very much! Thank you Monique Y. Mudama and Chris Bannister for nice hints, too — no

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> The unexpected forced downgrade from KDE 3.5 to 4 in Sid actually > ended up being a good thing for me. (the loss of the ability to have a > different background for each desktop was a KDE showstopper.  So the > forced downgrade prompted me to actually take a serious look at other > desktop envir

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> No - that is the problem!!  I loved KDE 3.5.x and have become quite slick with > it.  KDE 4 is different.  I don't like it.  If I have to, in effect, change > DE, and go through the learning curve again, there is no reason why it would > have to be to KDE 4. This is a very valid point that seems

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 08:58:59AM +0100, Lisi wrote: > I have not evaded the question. I have pointed out that I prefer things that > are functional to things that are showy. In that case you might want to consider fvwm? -- "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." --

Re: Configuring X for second monitor running free-driver.

2010-05-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. Could You please help me with my X server config. I'm trying to use only external monitor connected to a laptop and all is fine except that I have no 3D-support and also mplayer when playing movies shows it only in full screen mode and refuses to show it in its win

Re: X starting but nothing shows on the screen

2010-05-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote: Hello, I have a strange problem. If X is started from gdm at bootup or with /etc/init.d/gdm start then it starts (I know this since it beeps when it is up and running) but nothing shows on the screen. The same thing happens when I use startx and I have icewm in my .

Copy/Paste .ps/.pdf often gives a `snippets' icon

2010-05-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, When copying and pasting a .ps or a .pdf file, or a serie of such files, the resulting (i.e. pasted) files' icon is often the `snippets' one, i.e. the one which designates a broken/corrupted file. However, when right-clicking on the files, their content appears as the icon, i.e. the `snippets'

Re: Procmail: re-sort all messages

2010-05-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:38:51PM +0300, Alexander Batischev wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed fetchmail → procmail → mutt → msmtp chain and want > to configure procmail properly. Of course, I can't write all the rules > in the right way from scratch, so there must be some testing. The only >

Re: Is Firefox/Iceweasel leaking?

2010-05-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Girish Kulkarni writes: > On Fri, 07 May 2010 19:58:26 +0200 Merciadri Luca wrote: >> I noticed on many computers with Debian, whatever the kernel >> (2.6.xx, xx >= 26), that, once ``too much'' tabs have been opened, >> Firefox/Iceweasel becomes slug

Re: Resources for learning Linux

2010-05-08 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:37:53 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: > My favorite free on-line reference for general Linux knowledge is > currently the original edition of "The Linux Cookbook", by Michael > Stutz. Here is the link: > >http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_toc.html > > There is a great

Re: Is Firefox/Iceweasel leaking?

2010-05-08 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Fri, 07 May 2010 19:58:26 +0200 Merciadri Luca wrote: > I noticed on many computers with Debian, whatever the kernel > (2.6.xx, xx >= 26), that, once ``too much'' tabs have been opened, > Firefox/Iceweasel becomes sluggish, slower and slower, and often > stalls after some time. I also noticed th

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-08 Thread consul tores
2010/5/7 godo : > >> Please do not judge KDE4 by not being a copy of KDE 3.5. If that was the >> case, there would be no point in making a new version anyway. The >> important question is whether KDE lacks functionality that should be >> there (this includes, but is not limited to, functionality pr

X starting but nothing shows on the screen

2010-05-08 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Hello, I have a strange problem. If X is started from gdm at bootup or with /etc/init.d/gdm start then it starts (I know this since it beeps when it is up and running) but nothing shows on the screen. The same thing happens when I use startx and I have icewm in my .xinitrc. But if I have no .xinit

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

2010-05-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
Phil Requirements wrote: > On 2010-05-07 23:52:47 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 05/07/2010 09:48 PM, Phil Requirements wrote: >> >>> On 2010-05-07 18:19:44 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >>> Rob Owens wrote: > Avidemux can do it also. It's a GUI, but I think

Re: Is Firefox/Iceweasel leaking?

2010-05-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
Kelly Clowers wrote: > I dunno. I myself have never had serious memory problems with Mozilla > or Firefox. In old versions of Mozilla (~0.9-1.7) and FF 1 and 2 there where > definite limits to how many tabs I could open without crashing. With current > versions, though, I can run over a hundred tab

Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-08 Thread Lisi
Sorry, list - sent to me privately again, and messing up my email client! -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Kde 3.5 ... Date: Friday 07 May 2010 From: Lisi To: Dotan Cohen On Friday 07 May 2010 17:17:52 you wrote: > On 7 May 2010 11:56, Lisi wrote: > > On Thursday 06 May 2