Re: How to keep debian current??

2010-05-14 Thread RyanJB
>If you want the latest I'd run either testing >or unstable. I have both stable >and unstable installed. >Most of the time I run unstable. So considering that, the extra debian iso have practically no use since later I'll be upgrading packets from sid anyway?? Any clarifications? Thanks, RJB -

Re: How to keep debian current??

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/15/2010 01:14 AM, Alan Ianson wrote: On Fri May 14 2010 09:48:47 pm RyanJB wrote: Hi, With the latest apps keep pouring in, is there any way to keep debian in the "cutting edge"? I mean, how to keep debian as updated as, say, ubuntu or even sidux?? You know, latest iceweasel, openoffice,

Re: How to keep debian current??

2010-05-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri May 14 2010 09:48:47 pm RyanJB wrote: > Hi, > > With the latest apps keep pouring in, is there any way to keep debian in > the "cutting edge"? I mean, how to keep debian as updated as, say, ubuntu > or even sidux?? You know, latest iceweasel, openoffice, gnome, etc. Maybe > using unstable or

Re: Programming question

2010-05-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 20:32 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 18:34, Alexander Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > I was wondering if it is possible to decode this javascript from the > > command line > > > > > > var serializer = new Serializer() > > serializer.deserialize('B64ENCe30=

How to keep debian current??

2010-05-14 Thread RyanJB
Hi, With the latest apps keep pouring in, is there any way to keep debian in the "cutting edge"? I mean, how to keep debian as updated as, say, ubuntu or even sidux?? You know, latest iceweasel, openoffice, gnome, etc. Maybe using unstable or experimental repo? I'm sure there's many ways to do

Re: Updraiding or reinstalling?

2010-05-14 Thread Zoran Kolic
> Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new > iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release.. > Currently still using lenny. I found it the best was to know previously what was the purpose of the node and what would you want it to do in the

Re: Updrading or reinstalling?

2010-05-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ryanjonath...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, Just one question, Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release.. Currently still using lenny. As a KDE user I currently know of one bug (it has been r

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 21:47 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/14/2010 09:20 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > [snip] > > > > I would disagree. It was quite enlightening to see one of our clients > > work in a highly paperless way. They received FAXes via email as pdfs, > > open them in Acrobat,

Re: Programming question

2010-05-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 18:34, Alexander Samad wrote: > Hi > > I was wondering if it is possible to decode this javascript from the > command line > > > var serializer = new Serializer() > serializer.deserialize('B64ENCe30=') > > can't find any reference on how serialize works and can't find any >

Re: Updrading or reinstalling?

2010-05-14 Thread B. Alexander
IMHO, Debian seems to have the best record of successful upgrades. I run Sid on several of my boxes, which means it is in a constant state of upgrade. On my workstation, with a very eclectic mix of software, I have only started over from scratch twice in the last 10 years...Once in 2000 and once in

Re: Updrading or reinstalling?

2010-05-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri May 14 2010 07:25:34 pm ryanjonath...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi there, > > Just one question, > > Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new > iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release.. > Currently still using lenny. I don't think there

Re: Programming question

2010-05-14 Thread David Parker
- Original Message - From: Alexander Samad Date: Friday, May 14, 2010 9:35 pm Subject: Programming question To: Debian User List > Hi > > I was wondering if it is possible to decode this javascript from the > command line > > > var serializer = new Serializer() > serializer.deserializ

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 09:20 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: [snip] I would disagree. It was quite enlightening to see one of our clients work in a highly paperless way. They received FAXes via email as pdfs, open them in Acrobat, deskew, ocr to grab text for other documents based on those faxes, make

Re: Updrading or reinstalling?

2010-05-14 Thread 刘宇辉
On 15 May 2010 10:25, wrote: > Hi there, > > Just one question, > > Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new > iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release.. > Currently still using lenny. > > If i were you , I'd like to reinstall the Debia

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread ryanjonathanb
>In fact, >they are desperately trying to move away >from Windows and Acrobat is the >major stumbling block - John Hi, Considering that acrobat has been there for (more than) a few years, it'll be hard to dislodge them from the majority of users.. Any thoughts on this?? RJB Sent from my BlackBe

Updrading or reinstalling?

2010-05-14 Thread ryanjonathanb
Hi there, Just one question, Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release.. Currently still using lenny. Thanks RJB Sent from my BlackBerry® powered by Sinyal Kuat INDOSAT

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 21:52 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > There are many situations where the user has the PDF file but lacks the > > original document, and if you want to perform any modification in that > > file, we (linux users) are stuck :-/ > > But in the Free Software world, we usually

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> There are many situations where the user has the PDF file but lacks the > original document, and if you want to perform any modification in that > file, we (linux users) are stuck :-/ But in the Free Software world, we usually consider that not having the course is a problem in itself. Being

Programming question

2010-05-14 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi I was wondering if it is possible to decode this javascript from the command line var serializer = new Serializer() serializer.deserialize('B64ENCe30=') can't find any reference on how serialize works and can't find any cmdline tools to help Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Fwd: interesting installation problem - ordering of package initialization routines

2010-05-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi, I've just come across an interesting problem that highlights an interesting not-quite-but. The short form (the longer form follow below): - just installed xen (for virtualization) and DRBD (for disk replication in support of high availability) -- xen virtual machines run "on top of" DRB

Samba PDC, LDAP con Cluster

2010-05-14 Thread cosme
Samba PDC, LDAP con Cluster Tengo instalado un controlador de dominio con Samba PDC OpenLDAP PAM/NSS, he buscado alguna configuracion para agregar un BDC pero nada. Me han dicho que una mejor opcion sería agregar un cluster ya que tiene más ventajas además de equilibrar las cargas. Alguna

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Celejar, Am 2010-05-14 18:27:56, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > No idea where you get your 'facts' from: > > "On May 1, 2008, Adobe dropped its licensing restrictions on the SWF > format specifications, as part of the Open Screen Project." > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWF#History >

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Stefan Monnier, Am 2010-05-14 15:22:41, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Actually, I'd be interested to know what are those other 999. > AFAIK Javascript and Flash are the only games in town. And in some > areas (e.g. modern furniture companies come to mind), Flash-based > websites is the

Re: executable won't execute

2010-05-14 Thread Andrew Reid
On Thursday 13 May 2010 20:36:41 Kent West wrote: > I'm trying to start a daemon for Maple v 14, but when I try to run it, > the system complains that the file doesn't exist. What's up? > > wes...@]goshen.acu.edu]:/usr/local/Maple_Network_Tools/FLEXlm/11.7:> ls -lh > total 2.8M > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Eduardo M KALINOWSKI, Am 2010-05-14 16:04:37, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > On Sex, 14 Mai 2010, Mark Allums wrote: > >On 5/14/2010 1:39 PM, Celejar wrote: > >>- there are serious sites that require Flash. > > > >Yes, what a pity! Sad... > > ... especially because most of the time the

RE: Any file details on an executable binary file?

2010-05-14 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: vi...@sheridanc.on.ca >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: RE: Any file details on an executable binary file? >Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 11:02:42 -0400 > >> >>Hello list, >> >>I was wondering if anyone could suggest a package or means to look >at any or

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Mark Allums, Am 2010-05-14 07:39:47, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Flash may not be a priority, sense it performs two functions. One, > it acts as the standard web video player. Two, it tries to be a > standard web programming interface and SDK. > > The former is becoming mooted by th

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Steve Fishpaste, Am 2010-05-14 18:48:21, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > There are some printers that use GNU/FLOSS to you know. 8) Got to be > careful being so inclusive. There are many uses for PDFs other than > for archival purposes. Printers for example take PDFs and often need to 'edi

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Camaleón, Am 2010-05-14 21:39:38, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > You must be kidding. Or at least you must be unaware about the existence > of pdftk toolkit, iTex and gnupdf library, xournal or pdfedit, a set of > applications and frameworks available in this "GNU/Linux world", intended

Re: PDF grief - was Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello John A. Sullivan III, Am 2010-05-14 15:47:01, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 14:24 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > But, but, but... you're not *supposed* to edit PDF files! > That may have been the original idea but creativity finds ingenious ways > to use tools in way

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Steve Fishpaste
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 04:18:51PM -0400, Stefan Monnier uttered: > > Look at PDF. PDF became a ISO/IEC standard but we (at linux) still lack > > for a PDF editor that can compete with Acrobat Professional. > > In the GNU/Linux world, being able to edit PDF files is not considered > as a worthwh

Re: PDF grief - was Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello John A. Sullivan III, Am 2010-05-14 15:43:09, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Yes, exactly. We are hoping that, as we build our business and become > cash positive, a part of our profits can be used to shore up those areas > where FOSS is still weak as a desktop solution. We have just pu

Re: PDF grief - was Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello John A. Sullivan III, Am 2010-05-14 07:14:18, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > That comment really strikes home. We are working on a potential major > Windows desktop replacement project. The two things that are absolutely > killing us are email and a viable substitute for Acrobat Standar

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 15 May 2010 00:03:20 +0200 Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Celejar, > > Am 2010-05-13 19:31:47, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > > I always thought that the reason for all the trouble with Flash on > > Linux is that Flash was a closed standard. If the spec is published, > > why are the

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Camaleón, Am 2010-05-14 19:06:06, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > What I wanted to say is that in the event I had to choose a format for > delivering my work, I -for sure- wouldn't go for Flash, although Adobe > claims is "open". > > OTOH, as many others have pointed out, Flash format m

Re: sync and collect clashing

2010-05-14 Thread Alexander Samad
Thought I would close this off, seems like I had my rrdplugin set to high it was continually writting to the disk and thus.. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Alexander Samad wrote: > Hi > > changing subject and resending, any one seen collectd stopping sync happening > ? > > Alex > > On Sun, May

Re: Is acroread blind, or ps2pdf dangerous?

2010-05-14 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Op 14-05-10 19:22, Merciadri Luca schreef: > Yes, but the problem with evince is that it is a basic PDF reader. > Acrobat reader includes many completely unimportant functionalities, but > an important functionality as the automatic refresh is not implemented > in it, when it is implemented in very

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Celejar, Am 2010-05-13 19:31:47, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > I always thought that the reason for all the trouble with Flash on > Linux is that Flash was a closed standard. If the spec is published, > why are the FLOSS players so far behind Adobe's player? Is it just > that difficult

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 14 May 2010 16:18:51 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Look at PDF. PDF became a ISO/IEC standard but we (at linux) still lack >> for a PDF editor that can compete with Acrobat Professional. > > In the GNU/Linux world, being able to edit PDF files is not considered > as a worthwhile featur

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 14 May 2010 14:26:32 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/14/2010 09:58 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> O.k. here is what I was looking for: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWF#Licensing >> >> > Which I mentioned very early in this thread... Sorry then. I didn't notice. Greetings, -- Camaleón

Re: executable won't execute

2010-05-14 Thread Kent West
Alexey Salmin wrote: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: wes...@]goshen.acu.edu]:/usr/local/Maple_Network_Tools/FLEXlm/11.7:> ldd lmgrd /usr/bin/ldd: line 117: ./lmgrd: No such file or directory Not amd64, ok :) Try to use ldd on that binary and c

Re: Aptitude From Testing

2010-05-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 May 2010 14:56:28 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-05-14 21:36 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Typing 'aptitude-curses' is a little annoying. I'm assuming the rename > > is because of work on aptitude-gtk and aptitude-qt. If so, wouldn't > > using the alternatives system for an

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Look at PDF. PDF became a ISO/IEC standard but we (at linux) still lack > for a PDF editor that can compete with Acrobat Professional. In the GNU/Linux world, being able to edit PDF files is not considered as a worthwhile feature. Better edit the file in some other format, and only use PDF fo

Re: executable won't execute

2010-05-14 Thread Alexey Salmin
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: >> >> I'm trying to start a daemon for Maple v 14, but when I try to run it, >> the system complains that the file doesn't exist. What's up? >> >> wes...@]goshen.acu.edu]:/usr/local/Maple_Network_Tools/FLEXlm/11.7:> ls >> -lh >>

Re: Aptitude From Testing

2010-05-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-14 21:50 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 14 May 2010 14:36:44 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> Does it annoy anyone else that the 'aptitude' package no longer provides an >> 'aptitude' binary? >> >> Typing 'aptitude-curses' is a little annoying. I'm assuming the renam

Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?

2010-05-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Ron Johnson on 14/05/10 20:46, wrote: On 05/14/2010 10:04 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] Isn't this what SNMP was designed for? There was probably a lot more that it was designed for. Plus one of the first things to appear in google: "Despite its acronym, SNMP is not exactly simple! In fact,

Re: Aptitude From Testing

2010-05-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 May 2010 14:50:07 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I initially installed 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 on this system, but have since > upgraded to 0.6.1.5-3. Is there a good way for me to establish an > alternative that will not mess up on the next upgrade? Or, is this > problem supposedly fi

Re: executable won't execute

2010-05-14 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I'm trying to start a daemon for Maple v 14, but when I try to run it, the system complains that the file doesn't exist. What's up? wes...@]goshen.acu.edu]:/usr/local/Maple_Network_Tools/FLEXlm/11.7:> ls -lh total 2.8M lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff6 2010-05-13 16:04 lmcksum -> lmu

Re: Aptitude From Testing

2010-05-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-14 21:36 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Does it annoy anyone else that the 'aptitude' package no longer provides an > 'aptitude' binary? Not me: , | % readlink -f =aptitude | /usr/bin/aptitude-curses ` > Typing 'aptitude-curses' is a little annoying. I'm assuming th

Re: Aptitude From Testing

2010-05-14 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/14/2010 2:36 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Does it annoy anyone else that the 'aptitude' package no longer provides an 'aptitude' binary? Yes, that kind of thing bugs me to no end. I think a package should give me what I expect. (Within reason.) MAA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Aptitude From Testing

2010-05-14 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 14 May 2010 14:36:44 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > Does it annoy anyone else that the 'aptitude' package no longer provides an > 'aptitude' binary? > > Typing 'aptitude-curses' is a little annoying. I'm assuming the rename is > because of work on aptitude-gtk and aptitude-qt

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob McGowan writes: > On 05/14/2010 10:52 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: >> > ---removed on purpose--- >>> (find $dir -type f -exec sed -i -e "s/$regexp//" {} \;) for all files in a >>> directory. >> Thanks both. (@A

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McClain writes: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:04:42PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> I have many text files (actually .tex files) which contain some >> sequence or regexp (it depends on the files) that I would like to >> remove. Is there a comma

Re: Aptitude From Testing

2010-05-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 May 2010 14:36:44 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Does it annoy anyone else that the 'aptitude' package no longer provides an > 'aptitude' binary? > > Typing 'aptitude-curses' is a little annoying. I'm assuming the rename is > because of work on aptitude-gtk and aptitude-qt. If so,

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/14/2010 2:22 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: I always perceived a lack of interest. Few people really want to work on it, it seems. I root for Gnash, but I go ahead and use Adobe's non-free player. As long as you use adobe's player, you're not really rooting for Gnash. It comes down to optio

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:22, Stefan Monnier wrote: >Javascript are real threats, because even if you use a Free Software > implementation of the language, the code run in each web-page will > usually be 100% proprietary. Oh come on. You might as well complain that the HTML of most web pages do

Re: PDF grief - was Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 14:24 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/14/2010 01:40 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:31 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 05/14/2010 06:14 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > >>> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:52 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>> > Look

Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 10:04 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] Isn't this what SNMP was designed for? There was probably a lot more that it was designed for. Plus one of the first things to appear in google: "Despite its acronym, SNMP is not exactly simple! In fact, it never ceases to amaze me how much of

Re: PDF grief - was Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 14:22 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 14 May 2010 13:40:35 John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:31 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 05/14/2010 06:14 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:52 +, Camaleón wrote

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
Thanks for this really complete answer. I really appreciated it. Thanks for your investment in it. I learnt a lot thanks to it. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 14 May 2010 12:52:45 Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: >> >>> On Friday 14 May 2010 12:04:42

Aptitude From Testing

2010-05-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Does it annoy anyone else that the 'aptitude' package no longer provides an 'aptitude' binary? Typing 'aptitude-curses' is a little annoying. I'm assuming the rename is because of work on aptitude-gtk and aptitude-qt. If so, wouldn't using the alternatives system for an 'aptitude' symlink mak

Huh?? (was Re: Flash is open?)

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 02:22 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: [snip] But in either case, for users who care about their Freedom, both Flash and Javascript are real threats, because even if you use a Free Software implementation of the language, the code run in each web-page will usually be 100% proprietary.

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 09:58 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2010 15:45:36 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: Can we (we=people) make our own Flash implementation by using Adobe Flash specs? Yes. "Developers are now free to implement what is documented

Re: PDF grief - was Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 01:40 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:31 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/14/2010 06:14 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:52 +, Camaleón wrote: Look at PDF. PDF became a ISO/IEC standard but we (at linux) still lack for a PDF ed

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I always perceived a lack of interest. Few people really want to work > on it, it seems. I root for Gnash, but I go ahead and use Adobe's > non-free player. As long as you use adobe's player, you're not really rooting for Gnash. > The former is becoming mooted by the advent of HTML5. The lat

Re: PDF grief - was Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 May 2010 13:40:35 John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:31 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 05/14/2010 06:14 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:52 +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> Look at PDF. PDF became a ISO/IEC standard but we (at linux) sti

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 May 2010 12:52:45 Merciadri Luca wrote: > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: > > On Friday 14 May 2010 12:04:42 Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> I have many text files (actually .tex files) which contain some > >> sequence or regexp (it depends on the files) that I would like to > >> remove.

Re: MD subsystem is not loaded

2010-05-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, When I install a kernel I get "MD subsystem is not loaded" as a warning: ... See that is exactly the trouble with rolling ur own kernel. I never set RAID options. Which? Good question. So I made an "educated guess" (what?) and set: h...@debian:/hda10/backup.f

Re: Is acroread blind, or ps2pdf dangerous?

2010-05-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
My recommendation is to stay way from acroread which handles this use-case very poorly. Stefan "who happens to use pdflatex instead but that makes no difference in this regard anyway" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 14 May 2010 20:39:58 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 14 May 2010 15:45:36 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: >> >>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> Oh, no, but... If W3C does not trust "Flash" technology to be

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Sex, 14 Mai 2010, Mark Allums wrote: On 5/14/2010 1:39 PM, Celejar wrote: - there are serious sites that require Flash. Yes, what a pity! Sad... ... especially because most of the time the same funcionality could be achieve without Flash. -- All people are born alike -- except Repu

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> If you have other i386 machines around, it may be convenient for you to >>> keep the same architecture so you can share the download bandwidth of >>> Debian updates, and things like that. > On the other hand, now might be a good time to begin the migration to the > future. 32-bits will be arou

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> The 64-bit vs 32-bit argument is multi-faceted. It gets much deeper than >>> just addressing more than 3GB of RAM: >>> * twice the transfer width on the bus >> Nope, no difference on the bus. Most accesses will be >> cache-line-sized anyway at that level. > You're kidding, right? Not at all

Re: gtk-recordMyDesktop

2010-05-14 Thread godo
I thought I was already using the latest widget gtk tool kit. Any ideas? Huh, can't remember where and when (Sqeeze or Sid) but I was also have problem with .py. I think it was solved with some update, really can't remember. Can you maybe try apt-get dist-upgrade? Maybe fix something. --

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/14/2010 1:39 PM, Celejar wrote: - there are serious sites that require Flash. Yes, what a pity! Sad... -- 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/4bed9

Re: PDF grief - was Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 07:51 -0400, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:14:18AM -0400, John A. Sullivan III uttered: > > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:52 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > > > Look at PDF. PDF became a ISO/IEC standard but we (at linux) still lack > > > for a PDF editor that

Re: PDF grief - was Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:31 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/14/2010 06:14 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:52 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> Look at PDF. PDF became a ISO/IEC standard but we (at linux) still lack > >> for a PDF editor that can compete with Acrobat Pr

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2010 15:45:36 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Oh, no, but... If W3C does not trust "Flash" technology to be included >>> as one of their recommended standards, why should I?

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Celejar
[Thanks to everyone who responded.] On Fri, 14 May 2010 07:39:47 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > On 5/13/2010 6:31 PM, Celejar wrote: > > Adobe claims that they publish the Flash specs: > > http://www.adobe.com/choice/openmarkets.html > > > > I always thought that the reason for all the trouble with

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
On 05/14/2010 10:52 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: > ---removed on purpose--- >> (find $dir -type f -exec sed -i -e "s/$regexp//" {} \;) for all files in a >> directory. > Thanks both. (@Andrei: it was in the content of the file, sorry not to > have specified it bef

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Mike McClain
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:04:42PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I have many text files (actually .tex files) which contain some > sequence or regexp (it depends on the files) that I would like to > remove. Is there a commandline/GUI for doing this massive edit? > Look at sed's -i switch or Perl.

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I for one want to get my money out of my hardware. If >> you don't want a 64-bit system, then why did you pay for it? > +1 Very few people pay for 64bit and most of those who pay are the same who used to pay for GHz rather than for performance (read: Pentium 4). Stefan -- To UNSUBS

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
Bob McGowan wrote: > On 05/14/2010 10:37 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> On Friday 14 May 2010 12:04:42 Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >>> I have many text files (actually .tex files) which contain some >>> sequence or regexp (it depends on the files) that I would like to >>> remove. Is th

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
On 05/14/2010 10:37 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 14 May 2010 12:04:42 Merciadri Luca wrote: >> I have many text files (actually .tex files) which contain some >> sequence or regexp (it depends on the files) that I would like to >> remove. Is there a commandline/GUI for doing this m

Re: FileZilla won't keep preferences in memory through sessions

2010-05-14 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 14 May 2010 19:41:19 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> Have you set the default option under "Options/Transfers/Action if the >> file already exists" to "Uploads → Overwrite file"? ;-) > No. Now that I have done it, it works as expected. But did I have to set > this if

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: > On Friday 14 May 2010 12:04:42 Merciadri Luca wrote: >> I have many text files (actually .tex files) which contain some >> sequence or regexp (it depends on the files) that I would like to >> remove. Is there a comm

Re: FileZilla won't keep preferences in memory through sessions

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
Merciadri Luca wrote: > No. Now that I have done it, it works as expected. But did I have > to set this if I had already checked the box in the appearing window > many times? Please add `why' between `But' and `did'. Sorry -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I

Re: FileZilla won't keep preferences in memory through sessions

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Fri, 14 May 2010 19:02:10 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> When uploading files with FileZilla through SFTP, I often overwrite >> files because I have modified them locally, and I want them to be >> updated on my website too. >

Re: Any file details on an executable binary file?

2010-05-14 Thread John Hasler
Anand Sivaram writes: > I was wondering if anyone could suggest a package or means to look at > any or all of the information from a given executable binary file: Try readelf, from the binutils package. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,14.May.10, 20:32:11, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,14.May.10, 19:04:42, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have many text files (actually .tex files) which contain some > > sequence or regexp (it depends on the files) that I would like to > > remove. Is there a commandline/GUI for doi

RE: Any file details on an executable binary file?

2010-05-14 Thread Mike Viau
> On Fri, 14 May 2010 22:22:01 +0530 < aspn...@gmail.com > wrote: > > Also you could try and analyze the output of the following > readelf -a > > ldd > strings > For example most of the > files compiled with g++ has a dependability on libstdc++.so.6 > Wow the output of readelf -a was really

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 May 2010 12:04:42 Merciadri Luca wrote: > I have many text files (actually .tex files) which contain some > sequence or regexp (it depends on the files) that I would like to > remove. Is there a commandline/GUI for doing this massive edit? (sed -i -e "s/$regexp//" "$file") for a singl

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,14.May.10, 19:04:42, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > I have many text files (actually .tex files) which contain some > sequence or regexp (it depends on the files) that I would like to > remove. Is there a commandline/GUI for doing this massive edit? You need 'find'. If that sequence or re

VLC will lag when reading local videos, whatever the codec

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When watching videos locally, with VLC, it often lags at some parts of the videos, and the following kinds of messages are displayed at the console: == [some time] main video output error: picture [hexadecimal ref.] refcount is -1 overflow in spe

Re: FileZilla won't keep preferences in memory through sessions

2010-05-14 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 14 May 2010 19:02:10 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > When uploading files with FileZilla through SFTP, I often overwrite > files because I have modified them locally, and I want them to be > updated on my website too. > > Nice, but FileZilla asks me, at each session, if I want to replace t

Re: Is acroread blind, or ps2pdf dangerous?

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
Yes, but the problem with evince is that it is a basic PDF reader. Acrobat reader includes many completely unimportant functionalities, but an important functionality as the automatic refresh is not implemented in it, when it is implemented in very simple PDF readers, such as evince. Andrei Popesc

Re: Is acroread blind, or ps2pdf dangerous?

2010-05-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,14.May.10, 15:32:13, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > > I find it interesting that Acroread's behavior is different in Linux. > > The programmers of the Linux version seem to be aware of *nix standard > > practice. This is a good thing, I think. > I totally agree with you. I was so suprised that

FileZilla won't keep preferences in memory through sessions

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When uploading files with FileZilla through SFTP, I often overwrite files because I have modified them locally, and I want them to be updated on my website too. Nice, but FileZilla asks me, at each session, if I want to replace the file on the se

Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have many text files (actually .tex files) which contain some sequence or regexp (it depends on the files) that I would like to remove. Is there a commandline/GUI for doing this massive edit? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.

Re: Any file details on an executable binary file?

2010-05-14 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 20:32, Mike Viau wrote: > Hello list, > > I was wondering if anyone could suggest a package or means to look at any > or all of the information from a given executable binary file: > > - What compiler compiled it > > - What (source) language was it compiled from > > - Wha

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