Re: Iceape/Seamonkey and Iceweasel/Firefox - was Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/09/10 12:52, Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> (a pyrrhic victory!) >>> What? >> >> Rebirth from the ashes - Phoenix had complications so Firefox was chosen >> to symbolise the victorious rebirth of, um, - the spirit/ghost of >> Netscape(?). >> Supp

Re: wireless quits every few hours

2010-09-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 17 sep 10, 16:30:06, John wrote: > Hardware: IBM T30 laptop with internal Cisco Airo type of wireless > card. In other words, support is built into the kernel. Please post the relevant line from 'lspci' > So, question 1, what happens during reboot, that doesn't happen during > ifdown/

Re: Debian VServer in Germany

2010-09-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 18 sep 10, 01:21:32, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 17. 09. 2010 23:12:29 je Andrei Popescu napisal(a): > > > >Just out of curiosity, how would you tell you haven't lost e-mail? > >Assumptions that the sender will retry do not count[1] ;) > > > > Dead simple -- accompany every mail with a signture,

Re: Iceape/Seamonkey and Iceweasel/Firefox - was Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-17 Thread Alex
> > On a slightly (more) off-topic question - does any one know how fnord > Ubuntu gets around the Mozilla Corp. restrictions with Firefox? > I know that Ubuntu's Firefox install comes with an addon named "Ubuntu Firefox Modifications" - I assume they just use that for all their changes. IIRC the

Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...

2010-09-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ find -name '*.extension' -exec grep -H 'pattern' {} \; Using {} \; is the old way. That invokes grep once per file. That works but is slower and less efficient than it could be because it takes a little bit of time to launch grep. But newer POSIX standard find can us

Re: Setting max open files inside a chroot

2010-09-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Alok G. Singh wrote: > I have setup the limits in the host (the chroot being the guest) via > /etc/security/limits.conf and that works just fine: > > $ ulimit -n > 65535 It works because you logged in which uses PAM and libpam set the limits that you configured in the PAM configuration. > Howeve

Re: configuration of subordinate interface in a bridge; was Linux hub

2010-09-17 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi: On Friday 17 September 2010 19:08:20 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > * From: "Jesús M. Navarro" > * Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:47:48 +0200 > > > There's neither "carnot" nor "Allied Telesis 3612TR" in your provided > > diagram ... > > For now I can't find the original to edit and scan. > If

Re: [solved] Re: rsync issue

2010-09-17 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Rodolfo: On Friday 17 September 2010 15:07:10 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > >> In rsync manual I coudn't find a solution to what I want. I wish to > >> copy all my home directory into another machine with the --delete > >> option, but: > >> > >> 1) I dont't want hidden fil

Re: Iceape/Seamonkey and Iceweasel/Firefox - was Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-17 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Scott Ferguson wrote: (a pyrrhic victory!) What? Rebirth from the ashes - Phoenix had complications so Firefox was chosen to symbolise the victorious rebirth of, um, - the spirit/ghost of Netscape(?). Supposedly the revenge of Netscape on fnord Microsoft. (anecdote)

Re: RS232-to-USB adapter with dial-up modem

2010-09-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 17 September 2010 15:52:34 S D wrote: > > From: Phil Requirements > > > > What are you using to try to dial out? > > I'm using pppd and the respective pon/poff scripts and configuration files. > This configuration works fine with the modem when the modem is connected > via a RS-232 por

Re: wireless quits every few hours

2010-09-17 Thread John
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:22 PM, John wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > wrote: >> John wrote: >> >>> Or, putting it another way, what can I type from the command line to >>> do the same network restart as if I was rebooting. >> >> After doing the ifup thing, run th

Re: Netinst ISO not bootable?

2010-09-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
Len wrote: >On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:14:19PM +0930, Alexander Waldmann wrote: >> I just downloaded the current daily build, netinstall ISO, amd64. When >> I went to try and install it, it didn't boot. Instead, I got my current >> install's GRUB menu. Similar story in another computer. >> >> Just

Re: wireless quits every few hours

2010-09-17 Thread John
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > John wrote: > >> Or, putting it another way, what can I type from the command line to >> do the same network restart as if I was rebooting. > > After doing the ifup thing, run the following command (as root) and see if > it helps. > >

Re: Take Screenshot bug

2010-09-17 Thread green
Doug wrote at 2010-09-15 00:30 -0500: > Using Squeeze. In "Take Screenshot" if you opt for a full screen, > it works fine. If you > select "Grab the current window" you never get the second Screenshot > window that asks what to do with the screenshot--save to file, save > to clipboard, etc. > >

Re: Does the HDCP crack have any implications for Debian?

2010-09-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/09/10 07:12, Mark Allums wrote: > The master key to HDCP was leaked and it has been reported that it is > legitimate, meaning it is now possible to crack Blu-Ray. > > I'm not interested in that, but I wondered if that meant that we would > eventually be able to play Blu-Ray on Debian machine

Re: wireless quits every few hours

2010-09-17 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
John wrote: > Or, putting it another way, what can I type from the command line to > do the same network restart as if I was rebooting. After doing the ifup thing, run the following command (as root) and see if it helps. # /etc/init.d/networking restart -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malaya

Re: Does the HDCP crack have any implications for Debian?

2010-09-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/17/2010 4:33 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:12:47PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: The master key to HDCP was leaked and it has been reported that it is legitimate, meaning it is now possible to crack Blu-Ray. I'm not interested in that, but I wondered if that meant that we

Re: RS232-to-USB adapter with dial-up modem

2010-09-17 Thread S D
> From: Phil Requirements > > What are you using to try to dial out? I'm using pppd and the respective pon/poff scripts and configuration files. This configuration works fine with the modem when the modem is connected via a RS-232 port. When the modem is connected via a USB port it doesn't. Th

Re: Does the HDCP crack have any implications for Debian?

2010-09-17 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 17. 09. 2010 23:33:00 je Aaron Toponce napisal(a): That is, if Blu-ray is here to stay. I wouldn't count on that. The useful lifespan of each subsequent media support has been steadily decreasing since at least the advent of celluloid film. Vinyl records lasted for, give or take, 7 or

wireless quits every few hours

2010-09-17 Thread John
I writing this on Windows XP (yuck) because rebooting my linux system every few hours is driving me crazy. On Windows, it will run for days. So I think hardware is probably not the problem. Hardware: IBM T30 laptop with internal Cisco Airo type of wireless card. In other words, support is built

Re: Debian VServer in Germany

2010-09-17 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 17. 09. 2010 23:12:29 je Andrei Popescu napisal(a): Just out of curiosity, how would you tell you haven't lost e-mail? Assumptions that the sender will retry do not count[1] ;) Dead simple -- accompany every mail with a signture, such as: *In case you never receive this mail, please not

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:54:52AM -0400, Mike Viau wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:05:40 + wrote: > > > > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > > > AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) > > > compare two PDFs? Are there any other s

Re: RS232-to-USB adapter with dial-up modem

2010-09-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
Phil Requirements wrote: Here's a couple of other things I tried. I replaced /dev/ttyS0 with /dev/ttyUSB0 in /etc/ppp/peers/provider. Perhaps a silly question, but does the adapter require that you install a driver? -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice

Re: RS232-to-USB adapter with dial-up modem

2010-09-17 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2010-09-17 13:28:52 -0700, S D wrote: > On Fri, 9/17/10, Camaleón wrote: > > On ???, SD wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 9/17/10, Camaleón wrote: > > > > > > > > Device is detected at "/dev/ttyUSB0". > > > > > > > > Have you tried to communicate with the modem using > > > > low-level tools, such "m

RE: make-kpkg (from kernel-package) does not build xen patched kernel

2010-09-17 Thread Mike Viau
Going to try a make-file patch when I get some time. The patch was offered from a user on the Xen-user mailing list. [1] http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-09/msg00396.html -M > Subject: make-kpkg (from kernel-package) does not build xen

Re: Does the HDCP crack have any implications for Debian?

2010-09-17 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:12:47PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > The master key to HDCP was leaked and it has been reported that it > is legitimate, meaning it is now possible to crack Blu-Ray. > > I'm not interested in that, but I wondered if that meant that we > would eventually be able to play Bl

Re: Does the HDCP crack have any implications for Debian?

2010-09-17 Thread Angus Hedger
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:12:47 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > The master key to HDCP was leaked and it has been reported that it is > legitimate, meaning it is now possible to crack Blu-Ray. > > I'm not interested in that, but I wondered if that meant that we > would eventually be able to play Blu-Ra

Does the HDCP crack have any implications for Debian?

2010-09-17 Thread Mark Allums
The master key to HDCP was leaked and it has been reported that it is legitimate, meaning it is now possible to crack Blu-Ray. I'm not interested in that, but I wondered if that meant that we would eventually be able to play Blu-Ray on Debian machines. Do you suppose we will see Blu-Ray suppo

Re: Debian VServer in Germany

2010-09-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 14 sep 10, 16:29:48, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I've been running a home vanity domain MX box for 8 years and never lost > a mail through two moves, one within the city lasting 8 hours, the other > between cities lasting almost 2 days. Just out of curiosity, how would you tell you haven't los

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 16 sep 10, 21:12:39, AG wrote: > > Windows will automatically wipe the entire HD clean during > installation, I'm not a fan of Windows, but this is just not true, at least not with every version until Windows XP. It will screw up grub though, so have a boot disk handy if you didn't inst

Re: RS232-to-USB adapter with dial-up modem

2010-09-17 Thread S D
--- On Fri, 9/17/10, Camaleón wrote: > > --- On Fri, 9/17/10, Camaleón wrote: > >> > >> Device is detected at "/dev/ttyUSB0". > >> > >> Have you tried to communicate with the modem using > low-level tools, > >> such > >> "minicom"? > > > > No. Anything in particular I should try? Thanks > > N

Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-17 Thread Mark Allums
On Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:15:27 +0100 wrote: I dont know, they are normally pretty quick, but if you cant wait, purge any other flash plugins, and download the .so and drop it into "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins" and it should be picked up by pretty much everything! Yes, the 64-bit shared lib, c

Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...

2010-09-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:08:18 -0400 (EDT), Albretch Mueller wrote: > > I need to: >~ search for files using a pattern (say all files with a certain extension) >~ then search inside each of the found files for a word or regexp pattern >~ You could do this using find, cat and grep in a s

Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...

2010-09-17 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:32:06PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > if you need certain extension, you don't even need cat and find, it's all > > about grep: > > > $ grep 'string' *.extension > ~ > The thing is that I need to know in which file the pattern was found > and as you guys suggested

Printing Long Edge (Standard) with HP DeskJet 990C - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.2 does not work

2010-09-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Amongst two printers, I've got an Hp Deskjet 990Cxi, and I use `CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.2' as a driver for this printer. I would like to print both sides, e.g. using long edge mode (standard). The problem is that this seems not to be communicated to the printer, despite of the invokated command:

Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...

2010-09-17 Thread Joe Brenner
Albretch Mueller wrote: > I need to: > ~ > search for files using a pattern (say all files with a certain extension) > ~ > then search inside each of the found files for a word or regexp pattern > ~ > You could do this using find, cat and grep in a script, but I was > wondering about how cou

Re: monitor size not supported?

2010-09-17 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:40:44 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I just got a new lcd monitor that seems to be working fine but there is > one slight problem. > > The monitor is an LG W2040T with 1600x900 resolution so I added > "1600x900" to the Modes line of the Display SubSection. (...) I would no

Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...

2010-09-17 Thread Albretch Mueller
> if you need certain extension, you don't even need cat and find, it's all > about grep: > $ grep 'string' *.extension ~ The thing is that I need to know in which file the pattern was found and as you guys suggested: ~ $ find -name '*.extension' -exec grep -H 'pattern' {} \; ~ does it ~ Thank

Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...

2010-09-17 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:08:18 +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I need to: > ~ > search for files using a pattern (say all files with a certain > extension) > ~ > then search inside each of the found files for a word or regexp pattern > ~ > You could do this using find, cat and grep in a script,

Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...

2010-09-17 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:08:18PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I need to: > ~ > search for files using a pattern (say all files with a certain extension) Is this part so complicated that bash can't handle it? I mean, if you need certain extension, you don't even need cat and find, it's all a

Re: searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...

2010-09-17 Thread Axel Freyn
Hi Albrecht, On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:08:18PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > search for files using a pattern (say all files with a certain extension) > then search inside each of the found files for a word or regexp pattern > You could do this using find, cat and grep in a script, but I was

searching inside files with find, cat and grep as a oneliner ...

2010-09-17 Thread Albretch Mueller
I need to: ~ search for files using a pattern (say all files with a certain extension) ~ then search inside each of the found files for a word or regexp pattern ~ You could do this using find, cat and grep in a script, but I was wondering about how could you do it with a oneliner ~ Thanks lbr

Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 16:06, Mike Viau wrote: >> On Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:15:27 +0100 wrote: >> >> I dont know, they are normally pretty quick, but if you cant wait, >> purge any other flash plugins, and download the .so and drop it into >> "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins" and it should be picked

Re: single tab for completions in bash

2010-09-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-09-17 17:50 +0200, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > >> say I have two files junk1, junk2. >> >> % ls >> junk1  junk2 >> >> In zsh, If I do >> % ls j >> >> it becomes >> >> % ls junk >> >> another tab shows the list of completions >> >> %

configuration of subordinate interface in a bridge; was Linux hub

2010-09-17 Thread peasthope
* From: "Jesús M. Navarro" * Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:47:48 +0200 > There's neither "carnot" nor "Allied Telesis 3612TR" in your provided diagram > ... For now I can't find the original to edit and scan. If it doesn't turn up next week, I'll make a fresh diagram. > * The ISP you c

Re: monitor size not supported?

2010-09-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:40:44 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I just got a new lcd monitor that seems to be working fine but there is > one slight problem. > > The monitor is an LG W2040T with 1600x900 resolution so I added > "1600x900" to the Modes line of the Display SubSection. When X star

Re: My lenny picks the wrong resolution whereas squeeze is right

2010-09-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:49:21 -0400 (EDT), Tong wrote: > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:55:38 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> if you'd >> like to avoid using a custom mode line, please post the entire >> /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, along with its corresponding >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and I'll see if I

monitor size not supported?

2010-09-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
I just got a new lcd monitor that seems to be working fine but there is one slight problem. The monitor is an LG W2040T with 1600x900 resolution so I added "1600x900" to the Modes line of the Display SubSection. When X starts I get a message from the monitor that the optimum resolution is 1600x900

Re: single tab for completions in bash

2010-09-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-17 17:50 +0200, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > say I have two files junk1, junk2. > > % ls > junk1 junk2 > > In zsh, If I do > % ls j > > it becomes > > % ls junk > > another tab shows the list of completions > > % ls junk > junk1 junk2 And further tabs cycle through the list of possib

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
T o n g wrote: > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) >> compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? >> > > What do you want to compare? Just the content, or format & layout, etc > included?

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
alois.mah...@zxcvb.cz wrote: > Dne Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200 Merciadri Luca > napsal(a): >> AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) >> compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? > > What about printing both to PostScript and diff-ing the results? Why not. Tha

single tab for completions in bash

2010-09-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
say I have two files junk1, junk2. % ls junk1 junk2 In zsh, If I do % ls j it becomes % ls junk another tab shows the list of completions % ls junk junk1 junk2 However in bash, it takes 3 tabs to get the list of completions $ ls j junk1 junk2 Is there any option that can be changed in b

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-17 Thread Daniel Barclay
Donald MacKinnon wrote: Dale wrote: ... I have been working on a new Fluxbox style[1] ... Comments and/or suggestions more than welcome ... [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Debian_LibStick Hello Dale, I for one am not keen on black on a darkish blue. There is too little contrast be

Re: umount without sync

2010-09-17 Thread Daniel Barclay
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 17/09/10 22:25, T o n g wrote: ... umount swap? I suspect you mean "swapoff" (though I can't think of many uses). There probably aren't many, but one is to reclaim disk space. For example, if you use swap files (as opposed to partitions) and the file system contain

RE: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-17 Thread Mike Viau
> On Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:15:27 +0100 wrote: > > I dont know, they are normally pretty quick, but if you cant wait, > purge any other flash plugins, and download the .so and drop it into > "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins" and it should be picked up by pretty much > everything! +1 And the .so f

Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-17 Thread Angus Hedger
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:24:53 -0400 "John A. Sullivan III" wrote: > Any idea when it will make it into the multimedia repository? - John > I dont know, they are normally pretty quick, but if you cant wait, purge any other flash plugins, and download the .so and drop it into "/usr/lib/mozilla/plu

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-17 Thread godo
On 09/17/2010 06:31 AM, Dale wrote: Hi All, I have done some fixing and theses are the fixes I have done, * Fixed the fade on the menu * Adjusted toolbar, window title bar, menu bar heights from 14 to 18 * Adjusted font sizes to suit. I have also added and overlay example to the wiki page[1] o

Re: Iceape/Seamonkey and Iceweasel/Firefox - was Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/09/10 23:14, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 00:21, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> >> (Going from memory here - so someone please correct me if I'm wrong.) >> >> Once apon a time there was Netscape suite - which became Mozilla suite > In spirit only. Netscape 5 would have been

Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-17 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
> > >> At least this new x64 flashplugin is more stable than the 32bit one >> under nsplugins, thats all I ask of the stupid thing. >> >> Works fine with chrome v7-dev/ff3.6.9 both x64, still pegs a core or so >> playing videos, sigh! >> > Any idea when it will make it into the multimedia

Re: RS232-to-USB adapter with dial-up modem

2010-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:01:03AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:42:26 -0700, S D wrote: > > > I have a RS-232 external dial-up modem that I use from time to time. It > > works fine when connected through a RS-232 port. I'd like to use the > > modem with another PC that doesn't h

Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-17 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 11:27 +0100, Angus Hedger wrote: > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:25:44 + (UTC) > Camaleón wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > JFYI, Adobe released a "preview" of the Flash player plugin for 64 > > bits systems: > > > > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ > > > > At l

Re: Sources for Debian 4.0 Etch

2010-09-17 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 09/17/2010 08:59 AM, Ed Curtis wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Call me crazy but I'm still using Etch on my server. It's very stable > > and does everything I need it to do so I'm stic

Re: Iceweasel stability issues after reading the browser straw poll

2010-09-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 21:40, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Adam Hardy wrote: >> >> I don't have the stability problems as you describe but I don't use >> Flashblock or Flashgot or Readability. >> >> I do have a problem with youtube videos and the sound, but I don't know >> what's causing it and I haven'

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:54:52 -0400, Mike Viau wrote: >> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:05:40 + wrote: >> I've only seen such advanced options in Adobe Acrobat Professional >> products, but "diffpdf" suggested by Thierry is worth a try. >> >> > What is the closest GNU/Debian equivalent to Adobe Prof

RE: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Mike Viau
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:07:52 +1000 wrote: > > While it's not Adobe Professional I like flpsed - it'll do most of what you require. > Generally I find it easier to just do everything as a document and export the pdf. Foomatic-rip is useful too. > > Cheers Thanks for the

Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 23:33, John W Foster wrote: > > Here is the clincher..I have compared the output of streaming 1080p video on > this same machine running mixed squeeze/sid  to the same box running > windows 7 pro. the video quality seems to be exactly the same. I can not tell > any differen

Re: Sources for Debian 4.0 Etch

2010-09-17 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/17/2010 08:59 AM, Ed Curtis wrote: > Hello all, > > Call me crazy but I'm still using Etch on my server. It's very stable > and does everything I need it to do so I'm sticking with it. My problem > is I can no longer get packages for it becaus

Re: Iceape/Seamonkey and Iceweasel/Firefox - was Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 00:21, Scott Ferguson wrote: >  On 17/09/10 16:40, Bret Busby wrote: >> read that... (scott) >> Please note: in an effort to trim the message to which I am >> responding, I cut most of it out, apart from the stuff above, and the >> stuff above "Mozilla Corp", above, was p

Sources for Debian 4.0 Etch

2010-09-17 Thread Ed Curtis
Hello all, Call me crazy but I'm still using Etch on my server. It's very stable and does everything I need it to do so I'm sticking with it. My problem is I can no longer get packages for it because it is so outdated the apt-sources list is no longer current and doesn't work. Where can I get

Re: Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

2010-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
[CCing Bruce as he might not be subscribed due to no answer from him in this thread] On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 08:57:43PM +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: > I get this message: > FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. > > Further investigation leads me to the web page for the Debian > package ndiswrapper-sou

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/09/10 22:54, Mike Viau wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:05:40 + wrote: > > > > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > > > AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) > > > compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? > > > > I've only

[solved] Re: rsync issue

2010-09-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: >> In rsync manual I coudn't find a solution to what I want. I wish to copy >> all my home directory into another machine with the --delete option, but: >> >> 1) I dont't want hidden files, i.e.: `.*' to be copied; >> >> 2) on the other hand, there are some symlinks, begin

Re: umount without sync

2010-09-17 Thread Erwan David
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 02:32:35PM CEST, Timo Juhani Lindfors said: > T o n g writes: > > I saw that it is a common practice to issue sync several times before > > umount. I know it's a good practice, but is it really necessary? > > There have been some bugs afaik and a sync has been a workar

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/09/10 19:01, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 17 September 2010 06:06:19 Marc Shapiro wrote: >> Am I glad that I get my Firefox and Thunderbird direct from Mozilla. >> The ability to save its session is one of the things I love about Firefox. > I am running Lenny and use Iceweasel 3.0.6. Sessions ge

Re: RS232-to-USB adapter with dial-up modem

2010-09-17 Thread John Hasler
S D writes: > I bought a RS-232 to USB adapter cable. It's a simple inexpensive > cable that doesn't seem to have any chips/processors in it. It does, though. They've failed to implement enough of the modem control lines and/or gotten the voltages wrong. This is quite common. > Any ideas? Thro

RE: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Mike Viau
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:05:40 + wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) > > compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? > > I've only seen such advanced options in Adobe Acrobat Prof

Re: umount without sync

2010-09-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/09/10 22:25, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I saw that it is a common practice to issue sync several times before > umount. I know it's a good practice, but is it really necessary? > > If I copy a big chuck of file to my USB, then issue umount immediately, > will I lost any data? I think Linux

Re: umount without sync

2010-09-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
T o n g: > > I saw that it is a common practice to issue sync several times before > umount. I know it's a good practice, but is it really necessary? No, it's completely unnecessary as umount does the sync for you. Just don't unplug removable drives before umount returns. > If I copy a big chu

Re: umount without sync

2010-09-17 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:32:35 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > There have been some bugs afaik and a sync has been a workaround. > >> . . . > > You should not lose any data if you wait for umount to succeed afaik. So the "workaround" doesn't hold any more? -- Tong (remove underscore(s) t

Re: umount without sync

2010-09-17 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
T o n g writes: > I saw that it is a common practice to issue sync several times before > umount. I know it's a good practice, but is it really necessary? There have been some bugs afaik and a sync has been a workaround. > If I copy a big chuck of file to my USB, then issue umount immediately,

umount without sync

2010-09-17 Thread T o n g
Hi, I saw that it is a common practice to issue sync several times before umount. I know it's a good practice, but is it really necessary? If I copy a big chuck of file to my USB, then issue umount immediately, will I lost any data? I think Linux will make sure all data are flushed to USB bef

Setting max open files inside a chroot

2010-09-17 Thread Alok G. Singh
This question was posted on Serverfault.com[1] by me but I did not get any responses. Any help appreciated. I have setup the limits in the host (the chroot being the guest) via /etc/security/limits.conf and that works just fine: $ ulimit -n 65535 However, inside the chroot it is still the old va

Re: Problems probing a LVM device with GRUB2

2010-09-17 Thread Alberto Luaces
Hi Tom, thanks for the guidance, see below: Tom H writes: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Alberto Luaces wrote: >> >> I'm trying to install GRUB2 to a disk that has an ext2/3 filesystem into >> a LVM partition. I can even start the system from GRUB2 and a boot disk, >> so it should work. >> >>

OpenLDAP no connection!

2010-09-17 Thread Márcio Luciano Donada
That night, I had a problem with stopping the LDAP, the only thing I have in the log is this: connection_read(42): no connection! my version OpenLDAP is: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.11 (Jul 24 2010 08:14:20) $#012#...@murphy:/build/buildd-openldap_2.4.11-1+lenny2-i386-H5BDjb/open ldap-2.4.11/debia

Re: Updating files in /etc Remotely (and automated)

2010-09-17 Thread B. Alexander
I agree with Jesús. This is a far more elegant and scalable solution, though my experience is with cfengine [1]. This allows you to use svn or cvs to manage the master files, check out the files to your workstation, make changes and commit, and depending on how you have it set up, have the changes

Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-17 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:25:44 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > JFYI, Adobe released a "preview" of the Flash player plugin for 64 > bits systems: > > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ > > Now let's see how long it takes to put the "vulnerable" flag on it > again > >:-)

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-17 Thread Lisi
On Friday 17 September 2010 06:06:19 Marc Shapiro wrote: > Am I glad that I get my Firefox and Thunderbird direct from Mozilla. > The ability to save its session is one of the things I love about Firefox. I am running Lenny and use Iceweasel 3.0.6. Sessions get saved automagically. Lisi -- To

Re: FW: SILO

2010-09-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 04:45:09PM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > 3) Make sure there's no BIOS/EFI param making your first disk's boot > sector 'read only'. It would be OpenBoot on a Sun V240, but the advice probably still applies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: RS232-to-USB adapter with dial-up modem

2010-09-17 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:43:45 -0700, S D wrote: > --- On Fri, 9/17/10, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Device is detected at "/dev/ttyUSB0". >> >> Have you tried to communicate with the modem using low-level tools, >> such >> "minicom"? > > No. Anything in particular I should try? Thanks Nonthing special

Re: Simplest and cheapest RAID

2010-09-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 02:28:10AM +, T o n g wrote: > Ok, seems everyone thinks this way. My justification was, HD normally not > dies all of sudden. There should be signs of failing sectors. When it > happens, I might have a better chance salvage from the other copy. Yeah, > I agree, this

Re: RS232-to-USB adapter with dial-up modem

2010-09-17 Thread S D
--- On Fri, 9/17/10, Camaleón wrote: > > Device is detected at "/dev/ttyUSB0". > > Have you tried to communicate with the modem using > low-level tools, such > "minicom"? No. Anything in particular I should try? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) > compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? I've only seen such advanced options in Adobe Acrobat Professional products, but "diffpdf" suggested by Thierry is wor

Re: RS232-to-USB adapter with dial-up modem

2010-09-17 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:42:26 -0700, S D wrote: > I have a RS-232 external dial-up modem that I use from time to time. It > works fine when connected through a RS-232 port. I'd like to use the > modem with another PC that doesn't have a RS-232 port, so I bought a > RS-232 to USB adapter cable. It's

RS232-to-USB adapter with dial-up modem

2010-09-17 Thread S D
Hi, I have a RS-232 external dial-up modem that I use from time to time. It works fine when connected through a RS-232 port. I'd like to use the modem with another PC that doesn't have a RS-232 port, so I bought a RS-232 to USB adapter cable. It's a simple inexpensive cable that doesn't seem to

Re: Iceape/Seamonkey and Iceweasel/Firefox - was Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/09/10 16:40, Bret Busby wrote: > read that... (scott) > Please note: in an effort to trim the message to which I am > responding, I cut most of it out, apart from the stuff above, and the > stuff above "Mozilla Corp", above, was posted by me, and from there > down, was posted by Scott (to