Re: Eye Candy Window Manager

On 08/26/2010 12:07 PM, Jangita wrote: > Hello List, > > When it comes to graphics and linux, is there a Eye Candy window > manager out there; for me if I'm to go GUI and I have a powerful > graphics card humming under the hood; I'd like something that looks > nice, shadows, transparent well drawn

Eye Candy Window Manager

Hello List, When it comes to graphics and linux, is there a Eye Candy window manager out there; for me if I'm to go GUI and I have a powerful graphics card humming under the hood; I'd like something that looks nice, shadows, transparent well drawn icons, widgets and all. Any thoughts? -- Jan

Re: Debian updates worth to follow as a normal user

On Mi, 25 aug 10, 21:49:28, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Where is the recommended place to read about Debian updates that would > affect end users? weather.debian.net Unstable is sunny right now for amd64, but if you go into details you'll see that a lot of apt-related packages are uninstallable.

Re: synaptic got problem when auto updating today

On Mi, 25 aug 10, 21:18:56, Qi Qi wrote: > Joe writes: > > Thanks, Joe. > > If they had decided to get rid of synaptic or aptitude, what would > substitute its, do you know? Nobody is trying to get rid of aptitude or synaptic. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and de

Re: subversion-tools/svnmerge update?

On Mi, 25 aug 10, 11:18:24, Jeppe Øland wrote: > Hi there, > > It seems the svnmerge tool included in the subversion-tools package is > pretty ancient. > Whats the correct procedure to request an update? Do you mean stable/lenny/5.0 ? No new versions are included in a stable release (that's why

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

On Mi, 25 aug 10, 19:48:19, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Aaron -- > > I'll be glad to, if you will help me. > > Right now I don't reply because I don't get individual messages from the > listserv, I get the digest. Thus I'm sending a new message with the "Re: > " subject every time. Also, I am usin

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

Aaron -- I'll be glad to, if you will help me. Right now I don't reply because I don't get individual messages from the listserv, I get the digest. Thus I'm sending a new message with the "Re: " subject every time. Also, I am using gmail (don't know if that matters). Is there some way to confi

expand (1) not useful enough. How about expandest?

Hello. I often create spreadsheet in spreadsheet software (gnumeric, oocalc) and save as Tab-separated value, convert to text format, send it as plain text in email body. Because I hate to require the other person to use spreadsheet software if I just want to present a simple table of less than 5 c

Re: synaptic got problem when auto updating today

Joe writes: Thanks, Joe. If they had decided to get rid of synaptic or aptitude, what would substitute its, do you know? > On 25/08/10 03:25, Qi Qi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> When I updated my sid debian today, it automatically removed the >> synaptic. I tried to reinstall it, but it indicated as a

Re: Debian updates worth to follow as a normal user

s. keeling wrote: > T o n g : >> >> Where is the recommended place to read about Debian updates that would >> affect end users? >> >> For example, the recent massive update on the sid repo side, I know it >> is > > I think it's about this time that some jerk pipes up and says > production m

Re: Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...

> Maybe use lsb_release, and grep /etc/apt/sources.list as a fallback > method? Yep, sounds like a plan. Thanks, // Oliver -- --- DDKWizard and DDKBUILD: Trunk (potentially unstable) version:

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:06:09PM +, s. keeling wrote: > Nick Lidakis : > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:13:08AM +0200, Thomas Amm wrote: > > > Am 24.06.2010 20:06, schrieb Nick Lidakis: > > > > > > > > I figured, these days, getting to a 2d desktop with a 2 year old > > > > video card would n

Re: Mailing list protocol

On 08/25/2010 10:52 AM, Gary Roach wrote: > This is kind of an embarrassing question considering I have been > subscribed to this list for several years. What is the protocol for a > reply. Though I have bumbled through the process in the past, I am not > sure how it should really be done. I search

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

On 08/25/2010 01:09 PM, T o n g wrote: > I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it OK to > do so? Yes. However, aptitude is a much more powerful program. Check my blog post on the many reasons to use aptitude over apt: http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/

Re: Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...

On 08/25/2010 05:03 PM, Oliver Schneider wrote: Hi again, Can you look in /etc/issue (or maybe /etc/debian_version)? As a matter of fact that was my first naive method. It does work for Debian (unless changed by someone), but on Ubuntu this always contains the same string as far as I saw "s

Re: Mailing list protocol

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:55:39 -0400 Christopher Judd wrote: ... > In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first and > then Sylpheed, too. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secur

Re: Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...

Hi again, > Can you look in /etc/issue (or maybe /etc/debian_version)? As a matter of fact that was my first naive method. It does work for Debian (unless changed by someone), but on Ubuntu this always contains the same string as far as I saw "squeeze/sid". However, it could be that I'm on to s

Re: cron: different job different mail

On 08/25/2010 12:12 PM, T o n g wrote: Hi, I know I can set MAIL in cron jobs so as to define where the cron execution log will send to. but, I'm wondering if it is possible to set different email destinations for different cron jobs. Thanks You could put a different file for each email add

Re: cron: different job different mail

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:12:21PM +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I know I can set MAIL in cron jobs so as to define where the cron > execution log will send to. but, > > I'm wondering if it is possible to set different email destinations for > different cron jobs. I wonder how direct and ele

Re: Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...

On 08/25/2010 04:47 PM, Oliver Schneider wrote: Is something on the lines of: cat /etc/apt/sources.list|grep '^deb '|grep 'http://security\.'|head -n 1|grep -o 'debian|ubuntu' a safe idea or does it already make too many assumptions? Otherwise, what methods do you use to tell them apart fr

Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...

Is something on the lines of: cat /etc/apt/sources.list|grep '^deb '|grep 'http://security\.'|head -n 1|grep -o 'debian|ubuntu' a safe idea or does it already make too many assumptions? Otherwise, what methods do you use to tell them apart from the shell? Thanks, // Oliver --

Re: Debian updates worth to follow as a normal user

T o n g : > > Where is the recommended place to read about Debian updates that would > affect end users? > > For example, the recent massive update on the sid repo side, I know it is I think it's about this time that some jerk pipes up and says production machines serving users should be ru

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

T o n g : > > I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it > OK to do so? I've not read your link. Joey Hess wrote a long critique in here a couple of years ago, saying essentially yes. aptitude (I thimk) logs more of its actions than does apt-get, but other than that,

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

Nick Lidakis : > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:13:08AM +0200, Thomas Amm wrote: > > Am 24.06.2010 20:06, schrieb Nick Lidakis: > > > > > > I figured, these days, getting to a 2d desktop with a 2 year old > > > video card would not cause a machine to lock hard. Although,I am > > > on unstable. You pa

Re: Mailing list protocol

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:55:39 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: > On Wednesday 25 August 2010 14:58:07 Camaleón wrote: > >> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:52:33 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> > If I reply to , how does my reply get >> > included with the correct snippets of other messages. Or

Re: howto automatically install documentation

green writes: > But there are some -doc packages that are not recommended. Should > this go in policy somewhere? Some -doc packages (such as glibc-doc-reference) are quite large and of interest only to developers. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: synaptic got problem when auto updating today

On 25/08/10 03:25, Qi Qi wrote: Hi, When I updated my sid debian today, it automatically removed the synaptic. I tried to reinstall it, but it indicated as a broken package. Is it only happening to my debian sid, or it's an issue somehow? Most of us don't use synaptic, or at least, not for u

Re: Mailing list protocol

On Wednesday 25 August 2010 14:58:07 Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:52:33 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > > (...) > > > If I reply to , how does my reply get > > included with the correct snippets of other messages. Or is this my > > responsibility to cut and paste relevent sections. > >

Re: howto automatically install documentation

Le 25/08/2010 à 21:42, green a écrit : > Some of the -doc packages are recommended by their parent packages, so > installing recommends works for those. But there are some -doc packages that > are not recommended. yes, but names of doc packages are mostly "pkgname-doc", except several where it

Re: Whats up with Squeeze??

John W Foster wrote: My last update, yesterday removed synaptic & aptitude from my systems as part of the process. I tried again this morning & it also had removed dselect. I reinstalled dselect but aptitude & synaptic neither one will install due to unmet dependencies. This is a first for me aft

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:21 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:16:44 -0400, Anticept . wrote: > >>> I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it OK >>> to do so? >>> >>> I read [1] that it is not a good idea. Please comment. >>> . . . >>> >> There is no reason that

Re: howto automatically install documentation

Jordan Metzmeier wrote at 2010-08-25 08:19 -0500: > For the majority of packages, this is already the case. There are > exceptions, when packages have large amounts of documentation they can > be split into a separate -doc package (eg. aptitude-doc-en). AFAIK, > there is no easy to way to handle au

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:16:44 -0400, Anticept . wrote: >> I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it OK >> to do so? >> >> I read [1] that it is not a good idea. Please comment. >> . . . >> > There is no reason that these two can't be mixed. Aptitude, however, > keeps track

Re: Remote host identification has changed!

Thanks for the reply. On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:58:18 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > is it >> possible that I keep both the old RSA host key and add the new one? >> because for the time being, I need them both. > > If the key has changed then the old key is no more. You might as well > remove it, sin

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:09 PM, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it OK to > do so? > > I read [1] that it is not a good idea. > Please comment. > thanks > > [1] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/mixing-apt-*-and- > aptitude-

cron: different job different mail

Hi, I know I can set MAIL in cron jobs so as to define where the cron execution log will send to. but, I'm wondering if it is possible to set different email destinations for different cron jobs. Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://x

Re: Mailing list protocol

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:52:33 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: (...) > If I reply to , how does my reply get > included with the correct snippets of other messages. Or is this my > responsibility to cut and paste relevent sections. I guess you'll have to manually delete the extra quoting, at least until

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:13:08AM +0200, Thomas Amm wrote: > Am 24.06.2010 20:06, schrieb Nick Lidakis: > > > > I figured, these days, getting to a 2d desktop with a 2 year old video card > > would not cause a machine to lock hard. Although,I am on unstable. You pays > > your money > > and you t

Re: how to rotate ogg/theora video 90 degrees? (having to reencode is ok)

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:55:09 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Camaleón writes: (...) >> I cannot see "theora" listed in the table of avialable codecs¹, so how >> "- lavcopts vcodec=libtheora" could work? :-? >> >> ¹ http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-enc-libavcodec.html > > man

Re: Mailing list protocol

Gary Roach writes: > If I reply to , how does my reply get > included with the correct snippets of other messages. Or is this my > responsibility to cut and paste relevent sections. It's up to you. decent MUAs provide help with quoting but you must edit down included text. > I still need to kno

subversion-tools/svnmerge update?

Hi there, It seems the svnmerge tool included in the subversion-tools package is pretty ancient. Whats the correct procedure to request an update? Regards, -Jeppe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: Mailing list protocol

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:52:33 -0400 (EDT), Gary Roach wrote: > > This is kind of an embarrassing question considering I have been > subscribed to this list for several years. What is the protocol for a > reply. Though I have bumbled through the process in the past, I am not > sure how it should

Re: Mailing list protocol

Hi Have you read http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ ? On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 17:52, Gary Roach wrote: > If I reply to , how does my reply get > included with the correct snippets of other messages. Or is this my > responsibility to cut and paste relevent sections. Your responsibility AFAIK.

Re: Wine installation fails

On 25.8.2010 0:42, Gary Roach wrote: > I just installed wine 1.0.1, Debian squeeze. The package never > registered with the menu system. When I attempted to install MATLAB from > disk, I got the following error: > r...@supercrunch:/home/wine# wine /media/cdrom0/setup.exe > No protocol specified > N

Re: 2.6.34 Will Not Boot

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:24:15 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:58 AM, wrote: >> >> I made changes recommended by replies to my original message since I have no >> idea what the drive's /dev files will be called on the new system. Low and >> behold, I get the error on booting b

Mailing list protocol

Hi; This is kind of an embarrassing question considering I have been subscribed to this list for several years. What is the protocol for a reply. Though I have bumbled through the process in the past, I am not sure how it should really be done. I searched for about a half hour on google and on

Re: Whats up with Squeeze??

On 2010-08-25 18:30 +0200, John W Foster wrote: > My last update, yesterday removed synaptic & aptitude from my systems as > part of the process. This should teach you not to blindly run dist-upgrades, especially since you seem to be using sid rather than squeeze. > I tried again this morning &

Re: Broken deps?

On 25/08/10 12:20, B. Alexander wrote: > I went to upgrade a sid box today and found that > libapt-pkg-libc6.0-6-4.8 appears to be broken. I got a number of > messages saying: > > Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.8 which is a virtual package. > > Which means aptitude wants to remove things like ap

Whats up with Squeeze??

My last update, yesterday removed synaptic & aptitude from my systems as part of the process. I tried again this morning & it also had removed dselect. I reinstalled dselect but aptitude & synaptic neither one will install due to unmet dependencies. This is a first for me after many years of using

Re: Broken deps?

On Wed August 25 2010 09:20:04 am B. Alexander wrote: > I went to upgrade a sid box today and found that libapt-pkg-libc6.0-6-4.8 > appears to be broken. I got a number of messages saying: > > Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.8 which is a virtual package. > > Which means aptitude wants to remove thi

Re: 2.6.34 Will Not Boot

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:58 AM, wrote: > > I made changes recommended by replies to my original message since I have no > idea what the drive's /dev files will be called on the new system. Low and > behold, I get the error on booting both older 2.6.32 and new 2.6.34 kernels! > It starts to boot

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:31:13AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:20, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > That sounds good. So I shouldn't have any problems with 5.0.5 > supporting existing ext4 partitions. > > Thanks, Rodney. I was not able to mount an ext4 external hdd with th

Broken deps?

I went to upgrade a sid box today and found that libapt-pkg-libc6.0-6-4.8 appears to be broken. I got a number of messages saying: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.8 which is a virtual package. Which means aptitude wants to remove things like apt-file, apt-listchanges, aptitude, etc. With things b

Re: Verbatim 1TB external HDD

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: >  On 8/25/2010 7:12 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> Jordon Bedwell: Jochen Schulz wrote: > > No, they couldn't. :) Windows (since at least XP) doesn't allow > formatting disks larger than (IIRC) 32GB with the FAT filesyst

Re: Verbatim 1TB external HDD

Jordon Bedwell: > > Calling you names? lol? And I don't need to read out-dated KB > articles, Show me more recent ones which support your claim. > I logged into Windows XP machine here in the office and > did it before I even posted...I formatted an external HD with FAT32 > with no problems. You

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 09:14, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Tom Browder: >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:22, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> >>> In order to be able to at least mount existing ext4 filesystems during >>> installation, you canalso try Kenshi Muto's d-i: >>> http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ >>> >>> The

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

Tom Browder: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:22, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> In order to be able to at least mount existing ext4 filesystems during >> installation, you canalso try Kenshi Muto's d-i: >> http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ >> >> These are regular images, just with a more recent kernel. And K

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:22, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Tom Browder: >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:44, Alain Baeckeroot >> >>> Lenny does not support ext4 for /boot (maybe / too), but >>> it can manage ext4 for other partitions. >>> https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#For_people_who_ar

Re: 2.6.34 Will Not Boot

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:58:11 -0400 (EDT), d baron wrote: > > I made changes recommended by replies to my original message since I have > no idea what the drive's /dev files will be called on the new system. > Low and behold, I get the error on booting both older 2.6.32 and new > 2.6.34 kernels! I

Re: Verbatim 1TB external HDD

On 8/25/2010 7:12 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: Jordon Bedwell: Jochen Schulz wrote: No, they couldn't. :) Windows (since at least XP) doesn't allow formatting disks larger than (IIRC) 32GB with the FAT filesystem. It's either NTFS or… NTFS. […] Yes, Windows XP will format a drive way past 32GB, i

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

Tom Browder: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:44, Alain Baeckeroot > >> Lenny does not support ext4 for /boot (maybe / too), but >> it can manage ext4 for other partitions. >> https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#For_people_who_are_running_Debian >> http://wiki.debian.org/Ext4 >> >> For

Re: howto automatically install documentation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/25/2010 08:52 AM, Alain Baeckeroot wrote: > Hi > > I would like to have all documentation installed each time i add one package. > Is there some apt/aptitude/dpkg configuration to automate this ? > > by documentation i mean all man/info/html/

Re: Setting default GNOME settings with XDG_DATA_DIRS

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:14:39 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 06:45 +, Camaleón wrote: >> (...) >> >> Does it work if you place the "defaults.list" file in "~/.local/share/ >> applications"? > I did not try that but it would defeat the purpose of centralized > admin

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:44, Alain Baeckeroot wrote: > Le 25/08/2010 à 14:31, Tom Browder a écrit : >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:20, Rodney D. Myers wrote: >> > On 8/25/10 8:14 AM, Tom Browder wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers >> >> wrote: >> >>> On 8/25/10 7:49 AM,

howto automatically install documentation

Hi I would like to have all documentation installed each time i add one package. Is there some apt/aptitude/dpkg configuration to automate this ? by documentation i mean all man/info/html/... available with the said package. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

Le 25/08/2010 à 14:31, Tom Browder a écrit : > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:20, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > On 8/25/10 8:14 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers > >> wrote: > >>> On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > >> ... > Can anyone say for sure

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:20, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On 8/25/10 8:14 AM, Tom Browder wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers wrote: >>> On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote: >> ... Can anyone say for sure what will happen during installation with an existing ext4 pa

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

On 8/25/10 8:14 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers wrote: >> On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > ... >>> Can anyone say for sure what will happen during installation with an >>> existing ext4 partition to be retained? > ... >> What other partitions? I'll a

Re: How to Debian License

On 25.08.2010 13:41, Changwoo Ryu wrote: 2010/8/25 김기찬: 한국어 ( Korean ) 안녕하세요. 한국에서 고등학교를 다니고 있는 학생입니다. 2009년에 Debian을 접하게 되었는데 Radhat 계열보다 쉬운 운용에 감탄하며 사용중이었습니다. 하지만 시중에는 Debian에 관한 책이 없어서 공부하는데 힘들었습니다. 그래서 제 후배들과 Debian을 공부하려는 리눅스유저를 위하여 책을 쓰려고 합니다. Debian Linux를 영리목적으로 사용하려면 라이센스를 구매해야합니까? A

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote: ... >> Can anyone say for sure what will happen during installation with an >> existing ext4 partition to be retained? ... > What other partitions? I'll assume /home, and anything else? I have three dis

Re: Setting default GNOME settings with XDG_DATA_DIRS

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 06:45 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:35:33 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > Hello, all. We're having some difficulty properly setting GNOME > > defaults using XDG_DATA_DIRS. In our specific case, we are trying to > > set the system default for all u

Re: Verbatim 1TB external HDD

Jordon Bedwell: >> Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> >>> No, they couldn't. :) Windows (since at least XP) doesn't allow >>> formatting disks larger than (IIRC) 32GB with the FAT filesystem. It's >>> either NTFS or… NTFS. > > […] Yes, Windows XP will format a drive way past 32GB, it's > plain silly to say i

Re: How to Debian License

2010/8/25 김기찬 : > 한국어 ( Korean ) > 안녕하세요. > 한국에서 고등학교를 다니고 있는 학생입니다. > 2009년에 Debian을 접하게 되었는데 Radhat 계열보다 쉬운 운용에 감탄하며 사용중이었습니다. > 하지만 시중에는 Debian에 관한 책이 없어서 공부하는데 힘들었습니다. > 그래서 제 후배들과 Debian을 공부하려는 리눅스유저를 위하여 책을 쓰려고 합니다. > > Debian Linux를 영리목적으로 사용하려면 라이센스를 구매해야합니까? Actually the Korean text is al

Re: How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > I want to install Debian 5.0.5 over my Ubuntu 10.04.1 OS. > > I will reformat partitions "/boot" and "/" but want to keep the other > partitions which are now using the ext4 file system. > > Will that work? I read that 4.0 (lenny) doesn't support ext4 bu

How to Retain an Existing Ext4 Partition with a Debian 5.0.5 DVD Installation?

I want to install Debian 5.0.5 over my Ubuntu 10.04.1 OS. I will reformat partitions "/boot" and "/" but want to keep the other partitions which are now using the ext4 file system. Will that work? I read that 4.0 (lenny) doesn't support ext4 but it's available in testing. I see that the ext4 p

Re: 2.6.34 Will Not Boot

On 8/25/2010 4:58 AM, d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: I made changes recommended by replies to my original message since I have no idea what the drive's /dev files will be called on the new system. Low and behold, I get the error on booting both older 2.6.32 and new 2.6.34 kernels! It starts to boo

Re: 2.6.34 Will Not Boot

I made changes recommended by replies to my original message since I have no idea what the drive's /dev files will be called on the new system. Low and behold, I get the error on booting both older 2.6.32 and new 2.6.34 kernels! It starts to boot up just fine but then panics at the root device w

Re: How to deal with packages that only in an old release?

In , Armnotstrong wrote: >Recently I'm trying to synchronize my wm6.1 mobile-phone with debian >squeeze ,I found a project named "synce"can help me do this, so I >followed the guide for debian lenny on the website of the project >(http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceInstallation/Debian), but I can't f

How to deal with packages that only in an old release?

Hi,everyone Recently I'm trying to synchronize my wm6.1 mobile-phone with debian squeeze ,I found a project named "synce"can help me do this, so I followed the guide for debian lenny on the website of the project (http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceInstallation/Debian), but I can't find some packages

Re: color temperature of screens // dual screen

Le 25/08/2010 à 00:27, Jordon Bedwell a écrit : > > On 8/24/2010 4:40 PM, Alain Baeckeroot wrote: > > I have a laptop with warm colors (i guess near 5000 K) and an > > additional screen with 6300 K (or 9000 K) > > > > Is there a way to configure Xorg in order to see the same thing > > on both s

Re: how to rotate ogg/theora video 90 degrees? (having to reencode is ok)

Camaleón writes: > Okay. Change "avidemux" by "any video editor using its own implementation > of mencoder/ffmpeg as backend wich is available in Debian oss repo" :-) http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/secure-testing/data/embedded-code-copies?op=file says that the following packages contain their own c

Re: How to Debian License

> Hello > South Korea is a high school student I am. > In 2009, is to use Debian. > Use more than one family was Radhat Useful. > But a book on Debian because it was hard to study. > So you want to study my junior and Debian Linux users to write a book. > > Debian Linux as a commercial license to

Re: How to Debian License

Hi, On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 03:28:31PM +0900, 김기찬 wrote: > South Korea is a high school student I am. > In 2009, is to use Debian. > Use more than one family was Radhat Useful. > But a book on Debian because it was hard to study. > So you want to study my junior and Debian Linux users to write a b

Re: How to Debian License

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