Re: Arrow keys won't scroll history in squeeze konsole/bash

2010-08-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-08-12 00:09 +0200, James Zuelow wrote: > After an `aptitude full-upgrade` on a Squeeze system last Monday I've > lost the use of the arrow keys to browse my history in konsole. > > If I switch to one of the VTs (ctrl-alt-F1, etc.) the keys work fine, > and my history is present. However w

Re: Evolution Backup ??

2010-08-11 Thread Aniruddha
When the plugin isn't available, you can manually backup evolution: Step 1: Shutdown evolution and gconftool-2: $gconftool-2 --shutdown $evolution --force-shutdown Step 2: Create an archive with the data and configuration files: Note: To completely save the Evolution data and configuration, you n

iceweasel and its missing libraries.

2010-08-11 Thread jeremy jozwik
iceweasel has been very slow for me loading mail sites such as mail.yahoo.com and gmail.com. running in the terminal i get a load of errors: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libdirectfb-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file o

RE: emacs in etch vs. unicode

2010-08-11 Thread Gero Putzar
> -Original Message- > From: jida...@jidanni.org [mailto:jida...@jidanni.org] > Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2010 7:37 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: emacs in etch vs. unicode > > Help, how can I see other than \233\233 bytecode when using emacs -nw > with this old version of

Re: Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders Part 2 of 2

2010-08-11 Thread Nuno Magalhães
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Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders Part 2 of 2

2010-08-11 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
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Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders Part 1 of 2

2010-08-11 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
My Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10750083982 Scanned documents in the (currently 40) photo albums of my Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10750083982#!/profile.php?id=10750083982&v=photos

Testing Only

2010-08-11 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
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Arrow keys won't scroll history in squeeze konsole/bash

2010-08-11 Thread James Zuelow
After an `aptitude full-upgrade` on a Squeeze system last Monday I've lost the use of the arrow keys to browse my history in konsole. If I switch to one of the VTs (ctrl-alt-F1, etc.) the keys work fine, and my history is present. However within konsole they don't work anymore. Shift+up arrow

Re: No Consoles???

2010-08-11 Thread Wayne Topa
On 08/10/2010 10:48 AM, John W Foster wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:49 -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 06 aug 10, 14:07:43, John W Foster wrote: Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue with NO CONSOLES

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephen Powell wrote: > (1) I believe that "aptitude install linux-source-x.x.xx", as with any > package installation, requires root privileges. Yes, but that isn't the only way to get the source. There are many ways of getting linux kernel source that don't involve installing packages. > (2) B

Re: I was told to "MSN" somebody

2010-08-11 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Angus Hedger on 2010-08-11 06:09:39, in Message-Id > I would recommend pidgin if you just need the basics of msn (it does > support file transfer though), or amsn if you need more advanced stuff > such as webcam support, there are also tons of web based msn clients > [1] if you wish, > [1

Re: I was told to "MSN" somebody

2010-08-11 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 04:13:42AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > I was told to "MSN" somebody. So which MSN replacement program do you > folks recommend of > $ apt-cache search MSN | wc -l > 53 > given that I don't use KDE etc. but just nodm. Bitlbee. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O

RE: Wifi GNOME network manager version into KUbuntu, Debian "pinning method, etc. ; jor debian

2010-08-11 Thread James Zuelow
Original Message From: Bob McGowan [mailto:bob_mcgo...@symantec.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:06 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Wifi GNOME network manager version into KUbuntu, Debian "pinning method, etc. ; jor debian > On 08/07/2010 11:44 AM, giovanni_re wro

Re: Block size recommendations

2010-08-11 Thread Bob McGowan
On 08/11/2010 09:45 AM, Bill wrote: > Hi folks, > > What's a good block size to use with tar? ie -b --blocking factor > > In a hard disk to hard disk and DVD backup scheme, the term > block size gets used in at least six different ways. There are > the blocks on the source hard disk - in this ca

Re: Wifi GNOME network manager version into KUbuntu, Debian "pinning method, etc. ; jor debian

2010-08-11 Thread Bob McGowan
On 08/07/2010 11:44 AM, giovanni_re wrote: > KUbuntu 10.4, > > = > Failing to get wifi to connect to access point. It can see APs, but > fails to get dhcp via command mode, & fails connect with wicd. > > = > It has been suggested (on KUbuntu list?) to remove the KU network > manager package, & t

Re: Block size recommendations

2010-08-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1281545100.2833.297.ca...@zefram.soho.lan>, Bill wrote: >On the source disk fdisk -l reveals cylinders of 16065 x 512B >for a total of 8225280 bytes. If using LBA, like the fast majority of drives now, this means very little. These "cylinders" don't correspond to any meaningful property of t

Do NOT Reply To SPAM On The List

2010-08-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Do not reply to SPAM on the list. It makes it harder for the spam filters to recognize it. If you simply *must* reply, (and no, comedic value no matter how high is not a must) do *NOT* quote said SPAM. That confuses even the content-based filters, since you have two messages with similar text

Block size recommendations

2010-08-11 Thread Bill
Hi folks, What's a good block size to use with tar? ie -b --blocking factor In a hard disk to hard disk and DVD backup scheme, the term block size gets used in at least six different ways. There are the blocks on the source hard disk - in this case 512B in size (at least until next year when th

Re: Gnome automount

2010-08-11 Thread Vincenzo Tibullo
2010/8/11 James Allsopp : > Hi, > How do I stop gnome automounting a usb hard drive? I ideally need an option, > to ask me if I want to mount the drive. This is very annoying when I need to > manually mount the drive as read only, as I'm trying to recover data from > it. > > Done some googling on t

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:43:04 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Machlas wrote: > > A less religious explanation, from Greg Kroah-Hartman, author of The > Linux Kernel in a Nutshell, and well-known kernel hacker. > > "This warning is the most important thing to remember while working through > the > steps in th

Re: Should I submit a new bug ?

2010-08-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/11/2010 04:20 AM, Damiens ROBERT wrote: > Hi, > > I installed the package python-urlgrabber. > > It is supposed to contain the file keepalive.py (the README.Debian is > mentionning it) but a dpkg --listfiles python-urlgrabber doesn't show > t

rtmp redirection at gateway

2010-08-11 Thread Tapas Mishra
Hi, I have multiple video streaming servers running on some machines internally on LAN. which serve the request on LAN as rtmp://site1.mydomain.com rtmp://site2.mydomain.com rtmp://site3.mydomain.com rtmp://site4.mydomain.com Now I have to bring them to internet. I want these streaming servers

Re: Gnome automount

2010-08-11 Thread Erwan David
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:56:55AM CEST, James Allsopp said: > Hi, > How do I stop gnome automounting a usb hard drive? I ideally need an option, > to > ask me if I want to mount the drive. This is very annoying when I need to > manually mount the drive as read only, as I'm trying to recover dat

Re: Gnome automount

2010-08-11 Thread Camaleón
El 2010-08-11 a las 12:03 +0100, James Allsopp escribió: (resending to the list) > On 11 August 2010 11:57, Camaleón wrote: > (...) > > Yep, that "combo" ("gnome-volume-manager" and "gconf") could work. > > > > Open gconf editor and browse to "apps/nautilus/preferences/", uncheck > > "[ ] medi

Re: Lenny XDM won't start X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious mode (not 1777) or is not a directory, aborting.

2010-08-11 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Siju George writes: > X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious mode (not 1777) or is not a > directory, aborting. I googled for this and found "Problem gefunden, das Gruppen-SUID-Bit war für /tmp gesetzt. :-/" from http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user.german/browse_thread/thread/a03476dee2

Re: I was told to "MSN" somebody

2010-08-11 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:13 PM, wrote: > I was told to "MSN" somebody. So which MSN replacement program do you > folks recommend of > $ apt-cache search MSN | wc -l > 53 > given that I don't use KDE etc. but just nodm. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > wi

Re: Gnome automount

2010-08-11 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:56:55 +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > How do I stop gnome automounting a usb hard drive? I ideally need an > option, to ask me if I want to mount the drive. This is very annoying > when I need to manually mount the drive as read only, as I'm trying to > recover data from it. >

Re: Cannot get 1366x768 screen above 1024x768, & man xrandr inconsistancy

2010-08-11 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:50:53 +1000, Brett Mahar wrote: (...) > Somehow I am not able to get the "maximum" above 1024x768. Anyone have > any ideas where I should be looking? You should look -definitely- at Xorg log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log). Better yet, upload its whole content to an online service

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-11 Thread Alexander Samad
[snip] >> What do I need to do :) >> > > Maybe this will help... > > The "make headers_install" command exports the kernel's header files in a > form suitable for use by userspace programs. > > The kernel header files can be generated from the kernel sources. > > Define INSTALL_HDR_PATH= for outpu

Re: Re (n): finding the ip address for dns, nslookup & etc.

2010-08-11 Thread Alan Chandler
On 11/08/10 00:18, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: [pi.shawcable.net] It's your ISP's search domain. OK, but if a system has an address for a working nameserver, what is the value or significance of the search domain? I think it uses this to turn an unqualified name in to a qualified one so if (in t

Gnome automount

2010-08-11 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, How do I stop gnome automounting a usb hard drive? I ideally need an option, to ask me if I want to mount the drive. This is very annoying when I need to manually mount the drive as read only, as I'm trying to recover data from it. Done some googling on this, and gnome-volume-manager and gconf

Huawei E220 on NetworkManager

2010-08-11 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
Hello, has anyone out there been able to get NetworkManager to bring up a 3G connection on a Huawei E220 (portuguese operator Vodafone). I have never been able to achieve this. Now I migrated from Lenny to Squeeze (fresh install) and still no luck. I tried a Globetroter 3G modem (portuguese oper

Re: aptitude update Connection refused?

2010-08-11 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:01:31AM +0200, Eric KOM wrote: > Good morning! > > Please, when I try to update my sources.list of one of my machine, I > receive this message error: > [skipped] How is it now? I can log in to your mirror by FTP and in MOTD it says that they have limit of 500 users at

Should I submit a new bug ?

2010-08-11 Thread Damiens ROBERT
Hi, I installed the package python-urlgrabber. It is supposed to contain the file keepalive.py (the README.Debian is mentionning it) but a dpkg --listfiles python-urlgrabber doesn't show that file. I would like to know if it is normal or if I should submit a new bug. Kind regards, Damiens

Re: Evolution Backup ??

2010-08-11 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 15:44 -0500, John W Foster wrote: > Anyone know the best way to completely back up Evolutions files mail, > contacts etc. There does not seem to be a way built in. Will gladly be > proven wrong. I, lost all my files 2 times in the last few years & its a > PITA. > John The "Fi

Re: No Sound Through Video Capture Card

2010-08-11 Thread Scarletdown
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Thomas Amm wrote: > > Having done exactly what you are describing with A/V output from VJing > machines using a BT878 myself, I'd suppose you: > > - just forget XAWTV for capturing > - get mencoder, ffmpeg and probably some H264 stuff like GPAC for web > streaming