Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-03 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 04. 06. 2010 00:07:27 je Carl Johnson napisal(a): I just thought of another way to improve the ondemand driver slightly. There is a file called up_threshold in the /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/ directory. This file defaults to 80 meaning that the cpu use was 80% over the

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-03 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Wolodja -- thanks, that worked! My NIC now works, and I am in fact writing this e-mail from my Debian workstation! -PT On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Wolodja -- in looking at the instructions on the backports.org website, I > surmise that the instructions will downloa

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:02:15 -0400 (EDT), Jon Dowland wrote: > > Just how often is a total restore-from-backup required, I wonder? A total restore from backup could be for one of two purposes: (1) To restore a machine in case of a hard drive failure. Replace the bad drive with a good drive and

Re: I cannot write file onto samba share

2010-06-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 03:43:03PM +0200, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > I cannot figured out what happening. I have a smbfs mount through I > share a network disk. On this, I can create files or directories, but > I cannot write any file. In other words: > > WORKS > r...@svista:~# mkdir -v /mnt/usb-mo

Re: SCIM, anthy, and French

2010-06-03 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 14:42, Hendrik Boom wrote: > All I really want is for circumflex, > apostrophe, backward apostrophe, quote, and perhaps comma to turn into > dead keys so I can put accents on letters. > > Any other ideas? I think what you really need is one of the US international keyboar

Re: Debian Testing / During the installation / Partition Disks / Ext3 failed

2010-06-03 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Frederic Robert [100603 22:12 +] > Hello, > > During the installation, Debian Testing, there is an error message "The ext3 > file system creation in partition #3 of IDE1 master (hda) failed. What tells the output of the respective bluescreen? Elimar -- We all know Linux is great... i

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/03/2010 05:53 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Ralph Katz: >> On 06/03/2010 01:45 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> Which IDE controller? The controller I had problems with was: >>> >>> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller >>> (rev 03) >> Where would I find it? > >

Amazing price for China trip

2010-06-03 Thread My Discovery Tour
Invitation Of China Educational Trips-Summer 2010 Presented by Sino-North America International Educational Program Dear Principals and Educators: On behalf of the Sino-North America International Educational Program organizing committee, I am pleased to invite you and your fellow teachers to

Debian Testing / During the installation / Partition Disks / Ext3 failed

2010-06-03 Thread Frederic Robert
Hello, During the installation, Debian Testing, there is an error message "The ext3 file system creation in partition #3 of IDE1 master (hda) failed. -- Frederic Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-03 Thread Carl Johnson
Klistvud writes: > Dne, 02. 06. 2010 18:56:48 je Carl Johnson napisal(a): > >> used. You also might want to look at the 'conservative' governor. It >> will decrease speed slower, but it also increases speed slower. > > I tried it out and on my system it actually performs even worse than > the

Re: display limited to 1/4 of monitor after upgrade to sid, 2.6.32, grub 2

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 04:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-03 22:49 +0200, Kent West wrote: When I boot 2.6.32 using grub2, my display is only in the top left quadrant of my monitor, leaving a huge unusable border around the right and bottom of my viewable area, and leaving my viewable area too

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ralph Katz: > On 06/03/2010 01:45 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> Which IDE controller? The controller I had problems with was: >> >> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller >> (rev 03) > > Where would I find it? Just run lspci. > You think those errors could

Re: display limited to 1/4 of monitor after upgrade to sid, 2.6.32, grub 2

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 04:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-03 22:49 +0200, Kent West wrote: When I boot 2.6.32 using grub2, my display is only in the top left quadrant of my monitor, leaving a huge unusable border around the right and bottom of my viewable area, and leaving my viewable area too

Re: Looking for a .fodt validator

2010-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:23:58 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I found an .odf validator online at http://opendocumentfellowship.com/ > validator (upload a file and it tells you if it likes it), but it > doesn't handle fodt. It complains it hasn't been compressed and > packaged as a .zip file. Now su

Re: SCIM, anthy, and French

2010-06-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 14 May 2010 08:56:00 +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > Le Fri, 14 May 2010 02:31:58 + (UTC), Hendrik Boom > a écrit : > >> I'm using scim, anthy > [...] >> I'd like also the be able to switch in a French input method > [...] >> But I can't figure out how to set that up. (currently runni

Re: display limited to 1/4 of monitor after upgrade to sid, 2.6.32, grub 2

2010-06-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-03 22:49 +0200, Kent West wrote: > When I boot 2.6.32 using grub2, my display is only in the top left > quadrant of my monitor, leaving a huge unusable border around the > right and bottom of my viewable area, and leaving my viewable area too > small to be very usable. It's like the res

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-03 22:36 +0200, Kent West wrote: > In the grub screen where you select which kernel to boot, I pressed > "e" to edit the kernel line of my choice, then went to the "linux" > line that had things like /quiet and ro and root=UUIDblahblahblah and > added "video=1024x768", then pressed Ctrl

display limited to 1/4 of monitor after upgrade to sid, 2.6.32, grub 2

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
When I boot 2.6.32 using grub2, my display is only in the top left quadrant of my monitor, leaving a huge unusable border around the right and bottom of my viewable area, and leaving my viewable area too small to be very usable. It's like the resolution is locked at something small, like 320x18

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 03:25 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-03 22:06 +0200, Kent West wrote: On 06/03/2010 02:35 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: You may try booting with the video=… option, e.g. video=1280x1024 or whatever your monitor's resolution is. Where would I put this line?

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/03/2010 01:45 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Ralph Katz: >> As mentioned in the original post, disk PASSED SMART tests, and computer >> is a P4. >> Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz single processor >> hda: UDMA/100 mode selected > > Which IDE controller? The controller I had problems with was:

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-03 22:06 +0200, Kent West wrote: > On 06/03/2010 02:35 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> You may try booting with the video=… option, e.g. video=1280x1024 or >> whatever your monitor's resolution is. >> > > Where would I put this line? Append it to the kernel command line. I don't use grub2,

Looking for a .fodt validator

2010-06-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
I found an .odf validator online at http://opendocumentfellowship.com/ validator (upload a file and it tells you if it likes it), but it doesn't handle fodt. It complains it hasn't been compressed and packaged as a .zip file. Now surely it's *less* work to check .fodt, because you don'thave to

mkfs hasn't required library

2010-06-03 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Sorry I put here, I don't know where to send it. please forward it ! I coudn't install the testing iso may 31st , because the mkfs hasn' required library *( libblkid.so version BLKID_2.17)* to create and format partition ( I tried ext2, ext3 and ext4 no one succeeds ). best regards

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 02:35 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-03 21:06 +0200, Kent West wrote: So I figured I'd push on to Sid/unstable, to see if maybe I'd get newer drivers that might solve this issue. How interesting.! Now when I reboot (into the newly installed 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP kernel,

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-03 21:06 +0200, Kent West wrote: > On 06/03/2010 12:01 PM, Kent West wrote: >> I've been running stable for the past half-year, but because I >> couldn't get my printer to work with the hplij in stable, decided to >> dist-upgrade to testing which has a version that supports my >> printe

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
On 06/03/2010 12:01 PM, Kent West wrote: I've been running stable for the past half-year, but because I couldn't get my printer to work with the hplij in stable, decided to dist-upgrade to testing which has a version that supports my printer. But when I dist-upgraded, my dual-monitor setup fre

Glob of Upgrades

2010-06-03 Thread Freeman
Anyone else notice an unusually large number of upgrades in squeezee over the past 24 hours? I had 6 or 7 12 hours ago and 352 this morning, the most I've seen at once. R-C bugs regarding testing have also leaped to 716 from the low 500's recently. No mentions in Debian Project News or the devel

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ralph Katz: > > As mentioned in the original post, disk PASSED SMART tests, and computer > is a P4. > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz single processor > hda: UDMA/100 mode selected Which IDE controller? The controller I had problems with was: 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/03/2010 12:48 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 21:24, Daniel Barclay > wrote: > > Ralph, > > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Ralph Katz: > > Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws > errors

Re: Differentiated writable permissions

2010-06-03 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 16:09, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > Yesterday someone asked me the possibility to create two users for FTP > access. One that had the ability to create any type of file and other > that could create any type of files except directories to avoid changing > the structu

dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-03 Thread Kent West
I've been running stable for the past half-year, but because I couldn't get my printer to work with the hplij in stable, decided to dist-upgrade to testing which has a version that supports my printer. But when I dist-upgraded, my dual-monitor setup freezes my computer. If I remove my /etc/X11

Re: Debian Squeeze: Untrusted application launcher

2010-06-03 Thread Ariel Laganá
That was it... Thank you! On 06/03/2010 01:47 PM, Erwan David wrote: Le Thu 3/06/2010, Ariel Laganá disait Hi everybody, I've recently upgraded to debian testing (squeeze) and I'm having some minor issues, that I hope someone can help me fix... The thing is due to a vulnerability in deskto

Re: Requesting Backports

2010-06-03 Thread thib
James Stuckey wrote: Is there an official way to request backports? Or, what is the easiest way to make packages for lenny when using squeeze? You'll probably get more valuable feedback there[1]. 1: http://lists.backports.org/mailman/listinfo -t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 21:24, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Ralph, > > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Ralph Katz: >> >>> Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors to >>> syslog. Do I have two bad disks or a more serious hardware problem? >>> >> >> Another option: it might be a kerne

Re: Debian Squeeze: Untrusted application launcher

2010-06-03 Thread Erwan David
Le Thu 3/06/2010, Ariel Laganá disait > Hi everybody, > > I've recently upgraded to debian testing (squeeze) and I'm having > some minor issues, that I hope someone can help me fix... > > The thing is due to a vulnerability in desktop shortcuts execution, > gnome has introduced in their latest v

Debian Squeeze: Untrusted application launcher

2010-06-03 Thread Ariel Laganá
Hi everybody, I've recently upgraded to debian testing (squeeze) and I'm having some minor issues, that I hope someone can help me fix... The thing is due to a vulnerability in desktop shortcuts execution, gnome has introduced in their latest versions the Untrusted Application Launcher which

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:01:35 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: > Yep, using the "area selection" does not work in list view mode, hope is resolved in latest GNOME release :-P >> >>> Thanks! Note that it does not work on the desktop. >> >> What exactly is not working on the

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/03/2010 10:28 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/01/2010 10:06 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: ... You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 2

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Stephan Seitz wrote: ... That's why the ISO date formats are numeric: As long as one uses [whatever the right name for our Arabic-digit-based decimal system is], one can read the ISO date format. Only if you know, it is ISO date format. Oh, also: Yes, but the ISO date format is fairly ea

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2010 10:28 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/01/2010 10:06 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: ... You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Ralph, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ralph Katz: Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors to syslog. Do I have two bad disks or a more serious hardware problem? Another option: it might be a kernel problem. I don't remember the specifics anymore, but on one of my systems I ha

Re: [OT] Bandwidth usage daemon recommendation

2010-06-03 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 05:34:44PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > Anyone have a recommendation for a lightweight daemon (I don't > need anything fancy like cacti) to monitor total bandwidth usage? > Give vnstat a try. It works well. $ apt-cache show vnstat Package: vnstat Priority:

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/01/2010 10:06 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: ... You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 0

Squid3 on Debian

2010-06-03 Thread cosme
Squid3 on Debian Alguien me puede sugerir algún buen manual para instalar y configurar el squid3 en Debian. Uso Debian Lenny Saludos Cosme -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-06-03 Thread Karl Vogel
Here are some good pages on sed and awk one-liners: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/sed-one-liners-explained-part-one/ Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing, Numbering and Text Conversion and Substitution Wed, 8 Oct 2008 03:00:00 -0400 http://www.catonmat.net/blog/sed-on

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Stephan Seitz wrote: On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:58:09AM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... That's why the ISO date formats are numeric: As long as one uses [whatever the right name for our Arabic-digit-based decimal system is], one can read the ISO date format. Only if you know, it is ISO da

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:12:35 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 06/03/2010 05:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] Yep, using the "area selection" does not work in list view mode >>> >>> What's "area sel

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:28:57 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: > >>> Click "shift" and select the first file, then the last, it will >>> highlight the files in between. >>> >>> To add more non-contiguous files, rel

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state [UPDATE]

2010-06-03 Thread Klistvud
To whom it may concern Running a task when the computer is idle and stopping the task when it's not idle what I've considered so far and either doesn't work or is too much hassle: *finger* - only yields tty usage (useless for tracking X usage) *w* - ditto *xscreensaver* w/ *xscreensaver-com

Re: Requesting Backports

2010-06-03 Thread Brent Clark
On 03/06/2010 15:24, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: James Stuckey : Or, what is the easiest way to make packages for lenny when using squeeze? Using apt pinning I dont know if im imagining things, but im seeing a trend of more and more people looking to squeeze and / or backports

Re: Booting from an SD card?

2010-06-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
From: Alan Chandler > Have you tried the unetbootin package. I have an little That may be the answer. It now dawns on me that the only times that I have actually booted from the SD on an eee were to boot install media, and it was using unetbootin. I will give it a try. -- Marc Shapir

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:12:35 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 06/03/2010 05:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] >>> >>> Yep, using the "area selection" does not work in list view mode >> >> What's "area selection"? >> > I guess he speaks about when you draw some area with your mou

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/03/2010 08:12 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > OK, that's what I thought. > > > OTOH, some GUI apps (Icedeove and Geeqie spring right to mind) are > programmed to interpret any click-drag as the beginning of a drag & drop. Yes, but there is habitually no interest in selectin

I cannot write file onto samba share

2010-06-03 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
I cannot figured out what happening. I have a smbfs mount through I share a network disk. On this, I can create files or directories, but I cannot write any file. In other words: WORKS r...@svista:~# mkdir -v /mnt/usb-modem/foo mkdir: created directory `/mnt/usb-modem/foo' WORKS r...@svista:~# to

[solved] Re: apt-pinning... and force "old" version.

2010-06-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Andrei Popescu : >On Mi, 02 iun 10, 12:29:14, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >> >> I expect the "2.5.5-0.blueline.0" postfix to be candidate, but >> $ apt-cache policy postfix >> Installé : (aucun) >> Candidat : 2.5.5-1.1 >>Table de version : >> 2.5.5-1.1 0 >>100 http

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread David Baron
I sometimes get this. The disks click-clack. Those messages. Usually rebooting after jiggling the cables fixes it. Maybe replace them. Also check the power supply. Working? Adequate? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Requesting Backports

2010-06-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 03:21:46PM +0200, James Stuckey wrote: >Is there an official way to request backports? Or, what is the easiest way >to make packages for lenny when using squeeze?� I'd just say send the package maintainers a friendly request, at @packages.debian.org. For backportin

Re: Best home media center in Lenny repos?

2010-06-03 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Klistvud schreef: Dne, 02. 06. 2010 10:53:57 je Klistvud napisal(a): According to http://technomosh.blogspot.com/2009/08/media-center-connectivity-with-nokia.html elisa has no connectivity with Nokia phones? Does that still hold true? Well, to answer to myself (since nobody else will): elisa

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2010 08:12 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/03/2010 05:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] Yep, using the "area selection" does not work in list view mode What's "area selection"? I guess he speaks about when you draw some area with your mouse and that this area delimi

Re: Requesting Backports

2010-06-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> James Stuckey : > Or, what is the easiest way > to make packages for lenny when using squeeze? Using apt pinning -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement +261 3456 000 19 -- To UNSUB

Requesting Backports

2010-06-03 Thread James Stuckey
Is there an official way to request backports? Or, what is the easiest way to make packages for lenny when using squeeze?

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/03/2010 05:23 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > Other key chords: > Shift-{Down|Up}Arrow > Shift-Page{Up|Down} > Shift-Ctrl-{Home|End} > Yes. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/03/2010 05:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: > [snip] >> >> Yep, using the "area selection" does not work in list view mode > > What's "area selection"? > I guess he speaks about when you draw some area with your mouse and that this area delimits some zone where some files are in. I

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:44:10AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Thanks, Steven. What I meant by `non-negligible influence' is that I >> executed the whole on my sqlite files, and that the FF process then >> goes faster for starting & closing. Yes, I'm going to put this

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2010 05:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] Yep, using the "area selection" does not work in list view mode What's "area selection"? -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2010 05:23 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, In a directory, using the `List' mode of Nautilus, how can I select `continuously' files from one to another? I.e. let's say that I have == file1 file2 . . . filen-2 filen-1 filen == I would like to select files from file1 to file filen-2. To do

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:44:10AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Thanks, Steven. What I meant by `non-negligible influence' is that I > executed the whole on my sqlite files, and that the FF process then > goes faster for starting & closing. Yes, I'm going to put this as a > cronjob. You might fi

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:28:57 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> Click "shift" and select the first file, then the last, it will >> highlight the files in between. >> >> To add more non-contiguous files, release the "Shift" key and press >> "Crtl" to select the desired files. >> >>

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:23:34 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> In a directory, using the `List' mode of Nautilus, how can I select >> `continuously' files from one to another? > > (...) > > Click "shift" and select the first file,

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:23:34 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > In a directory, using the `List' mode of Nautilus, how can I select > `continuously' files from one to another? (...) Click "shift" and select the first file, then the last, it will highlight the files in between. To add more non-con

Differentiated writable permissions

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! Yesterday someone asked me the possibility to create two users for FTP access. One that had the ability to create any type of file and other that could create any type of files except directories to avoid changing the structure of the access tree. As I'm using ProFTPd, I thought this coul

How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, In a directory, using the `List' mode of Nautilus, how can I select `continuously' files from one to another? I.e. let's say that I have == file1 file2 . . . filen-2 filen-1 filen == I would like to select files from file1 to file filen-2. To do this, I would like to select file1, to maintain

Re: Best home media center in Lenny repos?

2010-06-03 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 02. 06. 2010 10:53:57 je Klistvud napisal(a): According to http://technomosh.blogspot.com/2009/08/media-center-connectivity-with-nokia.html elisa has no connectivity with Nokia phones? Does that still hold true? Well, to answer to myself (since nobody else will): elisa requires 3d h

Re: nvidia again looking for howto

2010-06-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:51 AM, James Stuckey wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Mathieu Malaterre > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> > On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:34:53 +0200, Jonas Stein wrote: >> > >> >> There are many ways to get a nvidia vga device running

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 13:32 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Wolodja -- in looking at the instructions on the backports.org website, I > surmise that the instructions will download the new packages from the > backports.org website and then install the updated kernel and everything that > the updat

Re: nvidia again looking for howto

2010-06-03 Thread James Stuckey
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Mathieu Malaterre < mathieu.malate...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:34:53 +0200, Jonas Stein wrote: > > > >> There are many ways to get a nvidia vga device running in debian. But > >> wich one is the

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:28:52 +0200 Merciadri Luca wrote: Hello Merciadri, > I just found it. Well, it was in ~ but I had not found it some minutes > ago (don't ask me why). But We have a saying here; You can't see the wood for the trees. Which would fit that. Sometimes, no matter how hard y

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven wrote: > On Thu, June 3, 2010 11:15, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Steven wrote: >>> This might be what you are looking for: >>> http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/07/vacuum-your-firefox-databases-for-better-performance/ >>> Cleaning up firefox/iceweas

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Steven
On Thu, June 3, 2010 11:15, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Steven wrote: >> This might be what you are looking for: >> http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/07/vacuum-your-firefox-databases-for-better-performance/ >> Cleaning up firefox/iceweasel's internal databses helps a lot > It had some non-negligible infl

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:06:31 +0200 > Merciadri Luca wrote: > > Hello Merciadri, > > >> Where is this file? Neither in ~ nor in /etc/X11. According to the >> > > Mine's in ~. IDK why you're not finding it. Unless you missed the > leading point, making it a hidden file

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:03:17 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> *** >> ls -l $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/[your_profile].default | grep sqlite *** >> >> To chek how big are your "sqlite" files. You may need to "purge" them. > Thanks. Well, it seems to be grand time to make some thoro

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:06:31 +0200 Merciadri Luca wrote: Hello Merciadri, > Where is this file? Neither in ~ nor in /etc/X11. According to the Mine's in ~. IDK why you're not finding it. Unless you missed the leading point, making it a hidden file. I think that's unlikely, though. -- Rega

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Steven wrote: > On Thu, June 3, 2010 10:40, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have noticed that my Iceweasel takes more and more time to close. When >> closing it, I hear the HDD spinning, and some operations seem to be >> done. It always close, but, even with ONE (normal webpage associated

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:40:14 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> I have noticed that my Iceweasel takes more and more time to close. When >> closing it, I hear the HDD spinning, and some operations seem to be >> done. It always close

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 08:48:21 + (UTC) > Camaleón wrote: > > Hello Camaleón, > > >> To chek how big are your "sqlite" files. You may need to "purge" them. >> > > Won't help if Luca is suffering from; > > (firefox-bin:2788): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 08:48:21 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: Hello Camaleón, > To chek how big are your "sqlite" files. You may need to "purge" them. Won't help if Luca is suffering from; (firefox-bin:2788): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead Being written repeatedly to .xsession-errors.

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Steven
On Thu, June 3, 2010 10:40, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > I have noticed that my Iceweasel takes more and more time to close. When > closing it, I hear the HDD spinning, and some operations seem to be > done. It always close, but, even with ONE (normal webpage associated > with the) tab, it migh

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:40:14 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I have noticed that my Iceweasel takes more and more time to close. When > closing it, I hear the HDD spinning, and some operations seem to be > done. It always close, but, even with ONE (normal webpage associated > with the) tab, it migh

Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, I have noticed that my Iceweasel takes more and more time to close. When closing it, I hear the HDD spinning, and some operations seem to be done. It always close, but, even with ONE (normal webpage associated with the) tab, it might take ~10 secs. to close (GNOME keeps then asking me if I wan

linux-kbuild-2.6.32

2010-06-03 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Hello. I run in some problems. I need 2.6.32 kernel from backports to use DRBD + OCFS2, but as I see there is no linux-kbuild-2.6.32 in backports. It is because of this bug? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568165 Any friendly workarounds? May be home made\fixed packages? --

Re: nvidia again looking for howto

2010-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:44:36 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> I installed nvidia from Debian "non-free" repo by following these >> instructions: >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > > I think those instructions are deprecated.

Re: Missing .Jigdo and .Template File

2010-06-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Andrei Popescu wrote: >On Jo, 03 iun 10, 11:24:15, Hand Gun wrote: >> Namaste Suvatthi hotu, Salam Sejahtera. >> >> In http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/4.0_r9/i386/jigdo-cd/ >> >> there are missing .jigdo and .template file in list bellow : >> >> debian-40r9-i386-businesscard.jigdo >> d

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-03 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 03. 06. 2010 08:52:43 je Andrei Popescu napisal(a): According to the description 'sentinella' seems to be exactly what you need. It just showed up in unstable though and is a KDE program... Well, I was looking for something DE-agnostic, preferably a command-line tool, but thanx for the

Re: nvidia again looking for howto

2010-06-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:34:53 +0200, Jonas Stein wrote: > >> There are many ways to get a nvidia vga device running in debian. But >> wich one is the debian way? >> I tried different ways, bu i get different errormessages and >> graphicerrors. I wan

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-03 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 03. 06. 2010 03:33:38 je David Purton napisal(a): I don't know if I have done it in the most efficient way, but you're welcome to hack the code to do what you want - it is not complex code. Hey, thanx, David. Although I'm in no way capable of hacking the code -- or even understanding i