Re: Invalid option when trying to mount the volume

2010-09-07 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 08:33:02AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > - try to mount it manually in a way like that: > ># mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey > >Of course, /dev/sda1 should be replaced with real device name, and > >/mnt/usbkey shoul exist. > > Thanks. Well, I found the

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Mark Allums
For those who dislike Chrome, how long has it been since you tried it? I tried it at version 1 (one) and removed it immediately. But they are up to version 6 (six) now. A lot of changes and improvements have been made. Chrome allows me to avoid using Windows IE for certain web sites that I

Re: Invalid option when trying to mount the volume

2010-09-07 Thread Merciadri Luca
Alexander Batischev wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 08:58:57PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've got an USB key whose FS was manually set to NTFS for different >> reasons. >> > What do you mean by "manually set to NTFS"? You mean, it has other FS but then > you formatted it

Re: No icons, help.

2010-09-07 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2010-09-07 23:48:33 -0400, Doug wrote: > On 9/7/2010 10:27 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Doug wrote: > > > >>I ordered and received the Debian LXDE version, and am presently > >>running the LIVE version, just to get a feel for things. I will > >>have to install the p

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2010-09-07 22:44:27 -0400, Doug wrote: > > In DOS and all versions of Windows, going back to the stone age, you > could hold ALT and press 3 digits of the extended (128~255) ASCII > table, using the number pad, and get all kinds of foreign and other > useful characters. For instance, if you wan

starting SWAT after installation on Debian 5.0.6 Lenny

2010-09-07 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I am running a Debian 5.0.6 Lenny desktop machine. I wanted to share some files and a printer over the LAN with Linux, BSD, and/or Windows machines. So, I installed Samba and SWAT. Browsing to localhost:901 (with Iceweasel) yielded "Failed to Connect" errors. RTFM, STFW, vi /

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread Carl Johnson
Doug writes: > On 9/7/2010 9:34 PM, Celejar wrote: >> On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:01:11 -0700 >> Carl Johnson wrote: >> >> ... >> >>> Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys. I haven't figured >>> out how to use hex input for Linux (or FreeBSD). >> >> As Camaleón has explained, it's reall

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread Carl Johnson
David Jardine writes: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:51:29PM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: >> David Jardine writes: >> >> > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:01:11AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: >> >> >> >> Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys. I haven't figured >> >> out how to use hex input

Re: authentication of multiple users for one mail server

2010-09-07 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:37:35 -0400 brownh wrote: > I've never encountered this problem before because I've always used > the same user name, but now I'm setting up a machine with different > user accounts and I need to have all these users' outgoing mail > authenticated by the mail server. I run

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 06:16, B. Alexander wrote: > I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I > have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a > (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have memory > leaks, and a

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:44:27 -0400 Doug wrote: > On 9/7/2010 9:34 PM, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:01:11 -0700 > > Carl Johnson wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys. I haven't figured > >> out how to use hex input for Linux (or FreeBSD). >

Re: No icons, help.

2010-09-07 Thread Doug
On 9/7/2010 10:27 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Doug wrote: I'm brand new to Debian, but not to Linux, altho I still consider myself pretty much a newbie after probably 12 years or so(!) (Slackware, RedHat, SuSE, PCLinuxOs, and a quick look at Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Puppy)

authentication of multiple users for one mail server

2010-09-07 Thread brownh
I've never encountered this problem before because I've always used the same user name, but now I'm setting up a machine with different user accounts and I need to have all these users' outgoing mail authenticated by the mail server. I run exim4, but not procmail. Although the error message says i

Re: No icons, help.

2010-09-07 Thread Morgan Gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:02:40 -0400 Doug wrote: > I ordered and received the Debian LXDE version, and am presently > running the LIVE version, just to get a feel for things. I will > have to install the program because I'm taking a Linux/Unix course >

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2010-09-07, B. Alexander wrote: > So what do others use? Iceweasel, iceape, lynx here. Straight Debian on x86 and sparc. Regards, Howard E. Ottawa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: [OT] Hardware failure?

2010-09-07 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:43:11 -0700 Kevin Ross wrote: ... > Hmm, I just noticed it's a laptop, so replacing the cable is not an > option (there's no cable to replace). I had an old laptop where I have > to wedge something underneath the hard drive to get it to make good > contact with the con

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:29:43 -0500 Kent West wrote: ... > I just aptitude install'd links, and had no graphics mode. I googled a > solution, and aptitude install'd links2 and ran "links2 -g", which > kicked it into graphics mode, but it was WAY slow, and Slashdot looked > nothing like the screen

Re: Maildrop problem

2010-09-07 Thread Kevin Ross
On 9/7/2010 4:34 PM, Johannes Bunte wrote: Hey guys, I'm quite desperate getting maildrop to work. I use postfix and courier with a mysql backend (virtual mailboxes). maildrop connects to authlib and gets the proper information, but only as root, it delivers it to the right mailbox. When i cal

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread Doug
On 9/7/2010 9:34 PM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:01:11 -0700 Carl Johnson wrote: ... Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys. I haven't figured out how to use hex input for Linux (or FreeBSD). As Camaleón has explained, it's really pretty straightforward: press ctrl-sh

Re: [OT] Hardware failure?

2010-09-07 Thread Kevin Ross
On 9/7/2010 5:20 PM, Celejar wrote: For the last several days, I've been experiencing strange lock-ups and crashes, which I suspect may be due to hardware failure, although I'm not sure how to diagnose this further. I don't think that it's an OS issue, since the problem sometimes occurs at POST

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Kent West
On 9/7/10 8:30 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:05:05 -0600 > Aaron Toponce wrote: > > ... > >> Except with text-only browsers, you lose the ability to view images, >> video, and other interactive features that the web provides. > links might be a good compromise; it has a graphics mode

Re: No icons, help.

2010-09-07 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Doug wrote: > I'm brand new to Debian, but not to Linux, altho I still consider > myself pretty much a newbie after probably 12 years or so(!) > (Slackware, RedHat, SuSE, PCLinuxOs, and a quick look at Ubuntu, Kubuntu, > and Puppy)  For general use recently I've bee

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-07 Thread John Lindsay
With regards to the problem I am having getting this IOMEGA drive to be seen by my primary computer running Debian Lenny -- I deleted the partitions, recreated the partitions as ext3, then ext4 and finally ntsf . I then checked mstab after 'mount ./dev./sdb1 /mnt' after each change and it sh

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Andrew Reid
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 09:16:26 B. Alexander wrote: > I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I > have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a > (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have > memory leaks

Re: No icons, help.

2010-09-07 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:02:40 -0400 Doug wrote: > I'm brand new to Debian, but not to Linux, altho I still consider > myself pretty much a newbie after probably 12 years or so(!) > (Slackware, RedHat, SuSE, PCLinuxOs, and a quick look at Ubuntu, > Kubuntu, and Puppy) For general use recently I'v

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:01:11 -0700 Carl Johnson wrote: ... > Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys. I haven't figured > out how to use hex input for Linux (or FreeBSD). As Camaleón has explained, it's really pretty straightforward: press ctrl-shift-u simultaneously, then release a

No icons, help.

2010-09-07 Thread Doug
I'm brand new to Debian, but not to Linux, altho I still consider myself pretty much a newbie after probably 12 years or so(!) (Slackware, RedHat, SuSE, PCLinuxOs, and a quick look at Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Puppy) For general use recently I've been using PcLOs, (KDE 4.4.5) and of course, Windows.

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:05:05 -0600 Aaron Toponce wrote: ... > Except with text-only browsers, you lose the ability to view images, > video, and other interactive features that the web provides. links might be a good compromise; it has a graphics mode, in which you can see images, but it's still

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:45:34 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: ... > installed. At the very least you need AdBlock Plus, NoScript, and > FlashBlock. > I found these made from of much lighter browsing experience even with dozens > of tabs open. Without these extensions, Iceweasel slowed

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:16:26 -0400 "B. Alexander" wrote: ... > So what do others use? IW, with NoScript, Flashblock, and other extensions as necessary, and through privoxy for ad blocking and so on. I use two profiles - my main one, in which I basically allow no Javascript, cookies or Flash, fo

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 18:43:16 +0100 Nuno Magalhães wrote: ... > And for when the flashplugin for amd64 stops working. Is gnash a > viable alternative? No. I have yet to get it to work on a site that needs flash. I'm sure it works on some, but you certainly can't rely on it to do Flash dependabl

Re: Re (2): Linux hub

2010-09-07 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:18:49 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > Celejar writes: > > I suppose, but since the vast majority of applications of cheap > > switches don't require this capability, wouldn't it be cheaper to > > leave it out, and only include it as an extra feature for those who > > need it? >

Re: Latest Lenny update: What new hardware is supported?

2010-09-07 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 06 September 2010 19:46:00 tw...@cstone.net wrote: > I'm specifically interested in whether the Verizon USB 760 broadband > wireless modem is now supported, but in general, when the kernel image is > upgraded, where can I find a list of the new hardware inclusions without > asking anyone

setting NIC speed

2010-09-07 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
when a NIC supports 1000base-T but its speed is at 100base-T and i want to change it to 100Mb/s. How do i really do that? # ethtool eth4 Settings for eth4: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full

Re: Re (2): Linux hub

2010-09-07 Thread John Hasler
Celejar writes: > I suppose, but since the vast majority of applications of cheap > switches don't require this capability, wouldn't it be cheaper to > leave it out, and only include it as an extra feature for those who > need it? They have to have a MAC table and with current technology it costs

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:47:00 +0200 Klistvud wrote: ... > Epiphany is (marginally) better than Iceweasel/Firefox. Internet > browsing on GNU/Linux, frankly, just plain sucks -- I mean, it sucks up > all my CPU and all my RAM, permanently. It also makes my machine(s) Permanently? I assume

[OT] Hardware failure?

2010-09-07 Thread Celejar
For the last several days, I've been experiencing strange lock-ups and crashes, which I suspect may be due to hardware failure, although I'm not sure how to diagnose this further. I don't think that it's an OS issue, since the problem sometimes occurs at POST, or at least before the bootloader (gr

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 09/07/2010 02:55 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20100907151244.gk7...@poseidon.cocyt.us>, Aaron Toponce wrote: >> Your browser is caching >> all the pages for each tab you use. The more the tabs, the more the >> cache. The more the cache, the more the RAM you chew through. This is >> fu

Re: Re (2): Linux hub

2010-09-07 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:04:42 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Celejar put forth on 9/6/2010 8:42 PM: > > > I'm curious; especially for the cheap switches, why would they need to > > store so many MAC addresses? What's the use case for a cheap switch > > actually seeing thousands of MACs since 'boot

Maildrop problem

2010-09-07 Thread Johannes Bunte
Hey guys, I'm quite desperate getting maildrop to work. I use postfix and courier with a mysql backend (virtual mailboxes). maildrop connects to authlib and gets the proper information, but only as root, it delivers it to the right mailbox. When i call maildrop from sudo -u vmail -i, it creates

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Angus Hedger
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:58:19 +0200 Steven wrote: > I use swiftfox, it's the latest firefox code recompiled to be more CPU > specific in terms of compile time optimization. > I find it to be pretty stable, also note that swiftfox is more > up-to-date than the Iceweasel package. > It certainly seems

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:51:29PM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > David Jardine writes: > > > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:01:11AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> > >> Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys. I haven't figured > >> out how to use hex input for Linux (or FreeBSD). > > > >

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Steven
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 09:16 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: > I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting > unusable. I have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a > 3.0GHz C2D with a (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or > xulrunner-stub) have memory leaks, a

Re: Invalid option when trying to mount the volume

2010-09-07 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 08:58:57PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > I've got an USB key whose FS was manually set to NTFS for different > reasons. What do you mean by "manually set to NTFS"? You mean, it has other FS but then you formatted it to NTFS? That's okay, I think. > [ 8997.719566]

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread Carl Johnson
David Jardine writes: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:01:11AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: >> >> Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys. I haven't figured >> out how to use hex input for Linux (or FreeBSD). > > AltGr and the keypad. For a-f work round the outside of the keypad from > to

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread green
B. Alexander wrote at 2010-09-07 08:16 -0500: >So what do others use? chromium-browser 2 other promising browsers: uzbl midori signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-07 Thread green
Rodolfo Medina wrote at 2010-09-07 08:48 -0500: > green writes: > > These 4 options have been mentioned: > > 1. remount hda6 readonly > > 2. umount hda6 > > 3. reboot to LiveCD > > 4. immediate power-off (pull the plug) > > The fifth: tell photorec to perform the writings into hda8. If I underst

changes to cron

2010-09-07 Thread Rick Pasotto
I updated many packages yesterday, including cron. Now I'm getting messages like this from logcheck: Sep 7 15:20:03 niof /USR/SBIN/CRON[20375]: (CRON) error (grandchild #20376 failed with exit status 1) Sep 7 15:23:01 niof /USR/SBIN/CRON[20492]: (CRON) error (grandchild #20493 failed with exit

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20100907151244.gk7...@poseidon.cocyt.us>, Aaron Toponce wrote: >Your browser is caching >all the pages for each tab you use. The more the tabs, the more the >cache. The more the cache, the more the RAM you chew through. This is >fundamental to all tab-based browsers. Same number of tabs with t

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , B. Alexander wrote: >So what do others use? Konqueror. It's always been fast and light. If you have the flash/klash/gnash plug-in enabled, there will be delays when the browser is waiting on that plug-in, though. Making use of the built-in ad, script, and plug-in blocking might be usef

Re: Re (2): Linux hub

2010-09-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:13:51 you wrote: >> Original Message >>From: b...@iguanasuicide.net >>>In <380-2201091623840...@netptc.net>, ow...@netptc.net wrote: I'm not disagreeing with you in practice but many years ago these WERE the definitions the ITU and ISO dealt with.

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting B. Alexander on 2010-09-07 08:16:26, in Message-Id > So what do others use? Most of the time I use elinks. For poorly-designed sites though I fire up Kazehakase or Iceweasel. As far as Iceweasel goes I've applied a lot of tweaks to my prefs.js to improve responsiveness on my IBM T23, al

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Morgan Gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:44:34 -0600 Aaron Toponce wrote: > On 09/07/2010 10:15 AM, Morgan Gangwere wrote: > You must not use Chromium/Chrome then. It chews through much more > memory with its process-per-tab feature. Much more than Firefox too. Actua

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:01:11AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > > Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys. I haven't figured > out how to use hex input for Linux (or FreeBSD). AltGr and the keypad. For a-f work round the outside of the keypad from top left to bottom right. -- To U

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: Iceweasel 3.5.9 hoping for chromium for lenny. -- 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/aanlktine05sdk

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
I dumped Iceweasel off all my machines within the past couple of months due to CPU usage of XULrunner causing the CPU fan to run at high speed even if the system was otherwise idling. I now use a combination of Swiftfox and Chromium with Chromium getting very close to being my default browser. -

Invalid option when trying to mount the volume

2010-09-07 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, I've got an USB key whose FS was manually set to NTFS for different reasons. This USB key is correctly recognized under one of my two Debian computers, but this one (laptop) does not like it that much, as plugging it gives me an error `invalid option when trying to mount the volume.' It does n

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 09/07/2010 10:15 AM, Morgan Gangwere wrote: > Normally, I use Iceweasel as my normal browser, but on the poor box I > have (a 1Ghz p3 Coppermine w/256MiB of RAM) I get this odd problem... > It just eats memory like candy, and I don't even /have/ flash > installed! You must not use Chromium/Chro

IPv6 and timing oddities

2010-09-07 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I'm not sure if this issue has been covered here before since I don't subscribe to debian-users. Anyway, it seems that the recent minor release upgrade for lenny may have uncovered some timing issues that were not present beforehand. My inet6 configurations in /etc/network/interfaces wer

Re: Re (2): Linux hub

2010-09-07 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: jesus.nava...@undominio.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Re (2): Linux hub >Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:10:55 +0200 > >>Hi, owens: >> >>On Tuesday 07 September 2010 01:08:40 ow...@netptc.net wrote: >>[...] >> >>> Boyd >>> I'm not disagreeing

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Running Sid on amd64. 1. Iceweasel - no memory problems, just one or two sites which only like IE, got a VM for that. Got adblockplus and noscript, an average of 5 open tabs and an allergy to flash - so no flash-pages tend to be open for long. 2. Kazehakase - since i like to deny 99% of the cooki

help with wireless WPA2 Enterprise

2010-09-07 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
hello all, I'm not being able to connect to my company WPA2 Enterprise wireless network using Network-Manager. At home I have a router with "WPA & WPA2 Personal" and I can associate just fine with NM. But, at work, we have a wifi network with "WPA & WPA2 Enterprise" and I'm unable to associate.

cpufreq not loaded in amd64?

2010-09-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
For some reason, I don't have cpufreq scaling enabled: da...@dam-main:~$ sudo powernowd -d PowerNow Daemon v1.00, (c) 2003-2008 John Clemens /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/affected_cpus: No such file or directory err=2Found 2 scalable units: -- 1 'CPU' per scalable unit /sys/devices/system/

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:16:26 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: > >> I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting >> unusable. > > What version of Iceweasel? > > Seems that 3.5.x are getting better in preventing that "leaks" and also > a

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:16:26 -0400 (EDT), B. Alexander wrote: > What browser do you use? On Debian Lenny, running GNOME, I usually use epiphany. But I've had so many bad experiences with epiphany on Squeeze that I switched to iceweasel. I don't seem to be experiencing the memory problems that you

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:16:26 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: > I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting > unusable. What version of Iceweasel? Seems that 3.5.x are getting better in preventing that "leaks" and also are a bit more resource-wise. > I have a 2.2GHz C2D box with

Re: two sound card problems

2010-09-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 21:20 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Debain Sid. > > 2.6.32-5-amd64 > > lspci -l |grep -i audio: > > 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 > Audio Controller (rev a2) > 05:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:42:32 +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > On 09/06/2010 11:01 PM, John Lindsay wrote: >> Sep 6 15:44:34 tux-net kernel: [119289.522770] NTFS volume version >> 3.1. Sep 6 15:44:34 tux-net kernel: [119289.538772] NTFS-fs error >> (device sdb1): load_system_files(): $LogFile is n

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 07. 09. 2010 18:15:01 je Morgan Gangwere napisal(a): I can attest to memory eating on Iceweasel. Normally, I use Iceweasel as my normal browser, but on the poor box I have (a 1Ghz p3 Coppermine w/256MiB of RAM) I get this odd problem... It just eats memory like candy, and I don't even /have

vim 7.x blockquoting scripts

2010-09-07 Thread Brian Ryans
I've been looking around for some blockquoting scripts for vim recently. All the ones I've encountered via Web searches apply some kind of text delimiter to it; the closest I can think of would be analogous to C comment style, seen in blockquote.vim. Before I get to writing my own, I'd like to fin

Re: dhclient.conf: prepend domain-name-servers doesn't influence resolv.conf

2010-09-07 Thread Carl Johnson
Joel Roth writes: > Hi all, > > I've set up dnsmasq in order to: > > - cache my DNS queries. > - use nameservers of my choice (instead of my ISP's) > > That part is working fine. > > I can manually set /etc/resolv.conf to: > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > And I find dnsmasq handles DNS queries

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Morgan Gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:12:44 -0600 Aaron Toponce wrote: [stuff] I can attest to memory eating on Iceweasel. Normally, I use Iceweasel as my normal browser, but on the poor box I have (a 1Ghz p3 Coppermine w/256MiB of RAM) I get this odd problem... It

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Morgan Gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:24:23 -0400 "B. Alexander" wrote: > I tried chrome once, and really wasn't impressed with it. First of > all, it didn't play nicely with my kde4 desktop, had its own > fisher-price looking borders Those can be easily fixed if y

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread Carl Johnson
Celejar writes: > On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:43:13 -0700 > Carl Johnson wrote: > >> Celejar writes: >> >> > On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 06:45:06 + (UTC) >> > Camaleón wrote: >> > >> > ... >> > >> >> In GNOME, you can get it by pressing "Ctrl+Shift+u" and release the keys. >> >> You'll get an underlin

Re: Awkward alt-key problem...

2010-09-07 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:28:10 -0500 francis southern <> wrote: > XTerm*altIsNotMeta: true > XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true Wonderful! I guess I'm so used to my URxvt that I'd fallen into the idea that Xterm applied the same rules. :D -- Morgan Gangwere "the light at the end of the tunnel is the coll

Re: system compromised

2010-09-07 Thread James Brown
Chris wrote: > On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 15:21:50 +0800 >> > > Probably not. Have you done updates recently? After you installed > rkhunter, did you run it with the --propupd switch? > > Odd though, my which resides in /usr/bin opposed to your /bin. > This could be a difference from your Deb 5 and my S

Re: Re (2): Linux hub

2010-09-07 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: b...@iguanasuicide.net >To: ow...@netptc.net >Subject: Re: Re (2): Linux hub >Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 18:45:33 -0500 > >>In <380-2201091623840...@netptc.net>, ow...@netptc.net wrote: Original Message From: b...@iguanasuicide.net >In <380-

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:16:26AM -0400, B. Alexander wrote: >I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. What is unusable about Iceweasel? >I have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with >a (lame) ATI card at work. I find tha

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 03:47:00PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Epiphany is (marginally) better than Iceweasel/Firefox. Internet > browsing on GNU/Linux, frankly, just plain sucks -- I mean, it sucks > up all my CPU and all my RAM, permanently. It also makes my > machine(s) heat up and my fans roar lik

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 09/07/2010 11:02 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: Again, where you run the program is essentially irrelevant - what matters is where files are written to. If the program writes to the current directory, then you must cd elsewhere, but if not, you could run from a dire

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread John Hasler
> So what do others use? Iceweasel 3.5.9. Works fine. The instance I'm using now has been up for four days but I've had it up for weeks with no problems. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 15:35:38 Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > On Tuesday 07 September 2010 15:16:26 B. Alexander wrote: > > I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. > > It's not unusable for me. > > I'm using Stable and my browser of preference is Konqueror with I

Re: Awkward alt-key problem...

2010-09-07 Thread francis southern
>I use irssi a lot and when I use the Alt-(num) to swap between windows I >get... Funky characters. That is, I get subscript 2 for alt-2, subscript >3 for alt-3, mu for alt-4, etc... And it gets rather irritating. Is this using XTerm? I've got two lines in my ~/.Xresources file which I think are j

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Alexander: On Tuesday 07 September 2010 15:16:26 B. Alexander wrote: > I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. It's not unusable for me. I'm using Stable and my browser of preference is Konqueror with Iceweasel when the site doesn't work properly with Konqu

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread B. Alexander
I tried chrome once, and really wasn't impressed with it. First of all, it didn't play nicely with my kde4 desktop, had its own fisher-price looking borders, etc. I also wonder how much of my browsing experience that google is caching and phoning home. I know I use gmail, though I have been reconsi

Re: stable Debian+php4

2010-09-07 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, David: On Tuesday 07 September 2010 15:08:22 David Oros wrote: >Hello, > > I would like to ask, how to deal with this problem: I cannot stop using > php4 because of some apps from about 100 customers, so I need stable > Debian with php4 in it. No, you don't need it; you just want it. PHP

Re: Awkward alt-key problem...

2010-09-07 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:54:02 +0300 Rares Aioanei wrote stuff... Here's the thing... I don't want this to happen. I use my Alt-Keys to be... well /alt keys/, not symbols. -- Morgan Gangwere "There is a light at the end of the tunnel" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, B. Alexander wrote: I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have memory leaks, and after a couple of

Re: Re (2): Linux hub

2010-09-07 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, owens: On Tuesday 07 September 2010 01:08:40 ow...@netptc.net wrote: [...] > Boyd > I'm not disagreeing with you in practice but many years ago these > WERE the definitions the ITU and ISO dealt with. IIRC it was the > vendors who screwed things up by introducing such products as > "swithcin

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 09/07/2010 08:12 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> if I do: `# cd /mnt/hda8', and run photorec from hda8, we avoid the possible >> damage caused by the reboot or the shutdown, and also we don't touch hda6. >> Is that true? Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > Again, where you run the program is essen

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
"B. Alexander" writes: > I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I > have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a > (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have memory > leaks, and after a couple of days, it e

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote at 2010-09-07 06:12 -0500: >> I'm in hda6, the partition containing the deletes files. When I reboot into >> a live CD or into another partition of the hard disk, say hda8, as far as I >> know - but maybe I'm wrong - during the reboot the system will write reports >> in some

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 07. 09. 2010 15:16:26 je B. Alexander napisal(a): (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have memory leaks, and after a couple of days, it eats up a significant amount (10-30%) of memory. The work box has 3GB and the home box has 4GB. It also eats up a signifi

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:35:15 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > On 9/7/2010 8:16 AM, B. Alexander wrote: > > > So what do others use? > > --b > > > I'm very happy with Google Chrome. +1 I use the version from the google repo $ aptitude show google-chrome-unstable Package: google-chrome-unstable

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 09/07/2010 08:12 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: When I reboot into a live CD or into another partition of the hard disk, say hda8, as far as I know - but maybe I'm wrong - during the reboot the system will write reports in some files of hda6, which we don't want to. Booting a live CD should not

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/7/2010 8:16 AM, B. Alexander wrote: So what do others use? --b I'm very happy with Google Chrome. -- 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/4c863f93.

Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread B. Alexander
I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have memory leaks, and after a couple of days, it eats up a significant amount (10-

stable Debian+php4

2010-09-07 Thread David Oros
Hello, I would like to ask, how to deal with this problem: I cannot stop using php4 because of some apps from about 100 customers, so I need stable Debian with php4 in it. My idea is to install stable lenny debian and compile php4 from source, but I do not want to use it - only as a last ch

Re: Emergence: recover deleted files

2010-09-07 Thread green
Rodolfo Medina wrote at 2010-09-07 06:12 -0500: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > > If it's major, why so much resistance in following the advice that has been > > given? > > Beacuse: > > I'm in hda6, the partition containing the deletes files. When I reboot into a > live CD or into another par

Re: sync-ing one dir. to another to make it identical.

2010-09-07 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 03:46:04PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > I have two identical dir.s. W/ one of them I do anything I want, then I > want to sync. them (the old will be identical to the new one). > rsync -goprtv --delete-after /2/ /1 This commands seems normal to me. I think it

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