Re: creation of encrypted lvm, suggestions please

2010-10-05 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 10/06/2010 08:17 AM, vishnu vardhan wrote: > > [3] "volume group "volume group name" not found". eventhough i am able > to access the partitions, at the boot time it is showing the above > message. can i assume the partition scheme is correct ? You mean that you see that as the very first messa

Re: cifs share is not mounted during boot

2010-10-05 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/10/6 Γιώργος Πάλλας : > On 10/05/2010 05:11 PM, Klistvud wrote: >> Dne, 05. 10. 2010 13:51:39 je Eero Volotinen napisal(a): >>> >>> try mount using ip address ? Are you sure that network is available >>> that time? >>> >>> or add @reboot mount -a on cron crontab ? >>> >>> -- >>> Eero >>> >> >>

Re: cifs share is not mounted during boot

2010-10-05 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 10/05/2010 05:11 PM, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 05. 10. 2010 13:51:39 je Eero Volotinen napisal(a): >> >> try mount using ip address ? Are you sure that network is available >> that time? >> >> or add @reboot mount -a on cron crontab ? >> >> -- >> Eero >> > > Actually, Eero's answer got me thinking

Re: creation of encrypted lvm, suggestions please

2010-10-05 Thread Bob Proulx
vishnu vardhan wrote: > for long time, i want to encrypt partitions on my disk. recently i have > found an artic...@1] with screenshots and actually made some sense to my > stupid mind. i have successfully, created encrypted lvm using the [...@1]. Looks good to me. The only change I would make in

creation of encrypted lvm, suggestions please

2010-10-05 Thread vishnu vardhan
for long time, i want to encrypt partitions on my disk. recently i have found an artic...@1] with screenshots and actually made some sense to my stupid mind. i have successfully, created encrypted lvm using the [...@1]. however, i have some issues : [1] i will set aside atleast a gb for future, sh

Re: acroread and iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List ! On 05/10/10 23:05, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 14:24:55 + #ZHAO LINA# wrote: Hello #ZHAO, Or anyone who works fine to open the pdf within iceweasel time and time again would love to share how they handle it. I did not encounter that problem before when I used It

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:55:13 +0200 godo wrote: > > >> mplayer might let you do that with -dumpstream. > > > > I've used -dumpstream before, to just grab the audio from a YouTube > > video without reencoding it. I'd have to figure out how to correctly > > repack the raw streams into a new contai

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread godo
mplayer might let you do that with -dumpstream. I've used -dumpstream before, to just grab the audio from a YouTube video without reencoding it. I'd have to figure out how to correctly repack the raw streams into a new container. Celejar I was try that with ffmpg and it works. ffmpeg -i in

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:50:49 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/05/2010 07:22 PM, Celejar wrote: > [snip] > > > > And flv is also a container, so I suppose that what I really want to do > > is "transcontainerify" rather than transcode, i.e., to repack the video > > into a different container, witho

RE: acroread and iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread #ZHAO LINA#
Hi, I believed the acroread was installed the same as you did, from debian-multimedia repositories, and the debian version is also testing and amd64. I checked, the nspluginwrapper were installed also. I just installed the xpdf, obviously it did not work for me, probably some plugins were lack

Samba versus NIS - rpc.ypxfrd port binding

2010-10-05 Thread Mike Bird
We just had some craziness with smbd going into a tight loop while attempting to start Samba. It turned out to be because smbd thought a printing service was running, but it couldn't make sense of attempts to communicate with that printing service. The reason for this appears to be that rpc.ypxfr

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread godo
On 10/05/2010 03:40 PM, Celejar wrote: Hi, I'm dabbling in transcoding flvs (e.g., from YouTube) to mp4s (for uploading to a service (Snapfish) which doesn't support flv. I'm doing something like this: ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4 I find that the above command line reduces the size of th

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/05/2010 07:22 PM, Celejar wrote: [snip] And flv is also a container, so I suppose that what I really want to do is "transcontainerify" rather than transcode, i.e., to repack the video into a different container, without reencoding it. Is this even possible? mplayer might let you do tha

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 17:31:59 -0400 Rob Owens wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 01:15:16PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > And why on earth is the default behavior to multiply the size by a > > factor of four just to retain the same quality? Is mp4 really such an > > inferior format to flv that this is r

Re: acroread and iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 14:24:55 + #ZHAO LINA# wrote: Hello #ZHAO, > Or anyone who works fine to open the pdf within iceweasel time and > time again would love to share how they handle it. I did not encounter > that problem before when I used It works fine for me. I install from the debian-mult

Re: Central configuration storage

2010-10-05 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Thanks for all the great responses to my vague question :P. I think I have a good starting point for my research on this subject. If anyone has some more pointers, feel free to give them! - - Nick -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.

Re: acroread and iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:45:44PM +, #ZHAO LINA# wrote: > > I cannot uninstall it, can somesome provide some solutions? > > Or anyone who works fine to open the pdf within iceweasel time and time again > would love to share how they handle it. I did not encounter that problem > before when

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 01:15:16PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > And why on earth is the default behavior to multiply the size by a > factor of four just to retain the same quality? Is mp4 really such an > inferior format to flv that this is required to retain the level of > quality? > mp4 is a contain

Re: opensync-0.22 packages for Debian squeeze, testers wanted

2010-10-05 Thread Chris Frey
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 03:44:03PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > Hi, > > I finally managed to allocate some free time and started reverting > Debian squeeze to opensync-0.22. This should make Blackberry and > Windows Mobile devices work again. Huge thanks! > Unfortunately, the 0.22 version of

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 22:11:32 +0200 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Celejar: > > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 18:58:05 +0200 > > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> > >> ffmpeg uses a fixed default for geometry (-s) and quality (-sameq, > >> -qscale, -vb etc.). You have to set both explicitly if you need anything > >> else (

Re: Postgrad research tools - any recommendations

2010-10-05 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:28:24 +0100 AG wrote: > > Maybe try PSPP [1]? It seems to be fully compatable with SPSS. > > > > Wine has no notes for newer versions of SPSS, but it seems X3 > > worked, kinda, under WINE, as always, ymmv and it can be quite hard > > to get stuff working well enough fo

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Celejar: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 18:58:05 +0200 > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> ffmpeg uses a fixed default for geometry (-s) and quality (-sameq, >> -qscale, -vb etc.). You have to set both explicitly if you need anything >> else (which you usually do). > > Thanks. Is there a tutorial for simple tra

Re: Central configuration storage

2010-10-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Nick: On Tuesday 05 October 2010 16:38:28 Nick Douma wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a solution to store configuration files in a central > location. My first guess was to look at LDAP, and see if you can use that > for keeping track of configuration. The intended setup is a farm of > webserv

Re: Postgrad research tools - any recommendations

2010-10-05 Thread AG
On 04/10/10 21:11, Angus Hedger wrote: On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:12:04 +0100 AG wrote: Greetings list I have just started a Ph.D. program and want to check out the availability of the following two software apps that the university uses on their Windows machines: SPSS

no 'left' in X

2010-10-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Running Sid, for some reason in X I have no 'left', left arrow. But I do in console mode and also running Lenny, so it's not hardware. Running 'xev', up, down, right all turn out something like: ... KeyPress event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0xa1, root 0x6c, subw 0xa2, t

Re: Central configuration storage

2010-10-05 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le mardi 05 octobre, Rob McBroom écrivit : > On Oct 5, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Nick Douma wrote: > > > I'm looking for a solution to store configuration files in a central > > location. My first guess was to look at LDAP, and see if you can use that > > for keeping track of configuration. > > Have

Re: Central configuration storage

2010-10-05 Thread Rob McBroom
On Oct 5, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Nick Douma wrote: > I'm looking for a solution to store configuration files in a central > location. My first guess was to look at LDAP, and see if you can use that for > keeping track of configuration. Have a look at Puppet. I use LDAP to store information about s

Re: Central configuration storage

2010-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/05/2010 09:38 AM, Nick Douma wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a solution to store configuration files in a central location. My first guess was to look at LDAP, and see if you can use that for keeping track of configuration. The intended setup is a farm of webservers, database servers and the

Re: Central configuration storage

2010-10-05 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi! On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 16:38 +0200, Nick Douma wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I'm looking for a solution to store configuration files in a central > location. My first guess was to look at LDAP, and see if you can use > that for keeping track of conf

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 18:58:05 +0200 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Celejar: > > > > ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4 > > > > I find that the above command line reduces the size of the video to > > about a third of the original, but at the cost of egregious degradation > > of the video quality. If I use

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Celejar: > > ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4 > > I find that the above command line reduces the size of the video to > about a third of the original, but at the cost of egregious degradation > of the video quality. If I use the 'sameq' option: ffmpeg uses a fixed default for geometry (-s) and

Re: 2 identical GSM-modem discern.

2010-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/05/2010 11:33 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Michelle: In your connection script, you can check, on which USB-Port it is connected, then get the /dev/ttyUSBn or /dev/ttyACMn and youare done. But how I can identify which one of the modems is connected on w

Re: 2 identical GSM-modem discern.

2010-10-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Michelle: > In your connection script, you can check, on which USB-Port it > is connected, then get the /dev/ttyUSBn or /dev/ttyACMn and youare > done. But how I can identify which one of the modems is connected on which port? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

OpenRheinRuhr, 13-14. November, Oberhausen

2010-10-05 Thread Volker Hauke
Hallo Community der freien Software, bald findet die zweite OpenRheinRuhr statt, am 13-14. November 2010 in Oberhausen. Mit dem Untertitel "Ein Pott voll Software“ in der Metropole Rhein-Ruhr, Wir wollen der IT-Wirtschaft, Verwaltung und die Community die Möglichkeit geben, im Ruhrgebiet rund

Re: Text overlow in Iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread John Hasler
Anthony Campbell writes: > Interesting. I can make that site work too, setting the default to 12. > But on another site (www.medical-acupuncture.co.uk) I can't stop the > text in the left column encroaching on the central area, no matter > what I set the font size to. I don't see that with Iceweas

Re: acroread and iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List ! On 05/10/10 22:24, #ZHAO LINA# wrote: It's pretty annoying especially when sometimes you need a bunch of papers. I cannot uninstall it, can somesome provide some solutions? what John certainly meant is to uninstall the `mozilla-acroread' package ONLY. If you do so, when you will

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:48:49 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/05/2010 08:40 AM, Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm dabbling in transcoding flvs (e.g., from YouTube) to mp4s (for > > uploading to a service (Snapfish) which doesn't support flv. I'm doing > > something like this: > > > > ffmpeg -i

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 14:13:07 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:40:46 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > (...) > > > Why is this, and is there a happy medium, i.e., a way to keep the size > > roughly constant, but to retain quality? > > Play with "-qscale n" (n=1 better quality/bigger

Re: acroread and iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:44:48 +, #ZHAO LINA# wrote: > When I tried to use acroread my.pdf > it showed me, > > Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": > /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so: wrong ELF class: > ELFCLASS64 If you Google for that message, all seems

Central configuration storage

2010-10-05 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm looking for a solution to store configuration files in a central location. My first guess was to look at LDAP, and see if you can use that for keeping track of configuration. The intended setup is a farm of webservers, database servers and

Re: deluge to handle torrents

2010-10-05 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue October 5 2010, Camaleón wrote: > Mime types in Icewasel are defined by means of "~/.mozilla/firefox/ > [profile].default/mimeTypes.rdf", a plain text file that Mozilla does not > recommend to be manually edited and that reflects the available options > under Preferences / Applications tab.

Re: acroread and iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List ! On 05/10/10 22:45, #ZHAO LINA# wrote: Is it okay to install the firefox side by side with iceweasles? I mean, at the same time. according to : http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/iceweasel "(iceweasel) is based on the Firefox source-code, with minor modifications." Jerome Cu

On lenny-backports-sloppy

2010-10-05 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian Users, If this hasn't been discussed here already: http://blog.snow-crash.org/2010/10/a-new-player-in-the-house-lenny-backports-sloppy.html HTH and thanks. Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Fwd: Re: acroread and iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Original Message Subject: Re: acroread and iceweasel Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:49:40 +0800 From: Jerome BENOIT Reply-To: jgm...@rezozer.net Organization: none To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hello List ! On 05/10/10 22:24, #ZHAO LINA# wrote: It's pretty annoying especially

Re: acroread and iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
It's always "just worked" for me. Do you have mozilla-acroread installed? On 10/05/2010 09:24 AM, #ZHAO LINA# wrote: It's pretty annoying especially when sometimes you need a bunch of papers. I cannot uninstall it, can somesome provide some solutions? Or anyone who works fine to open the pdf

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/05/2010 08:40 AM, Celejar wrote: Hi, I'm dabbling in transcoding flvs (e.g., from YouTube) to mp4s (for uploading to a service (Snapfish) which doesn't support flv. I'm doing something like this: ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4 Have you tried Handbrake? It's got a CLI mode, too. -

RE: acroread and iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread #ZHAO LINA#
Is it okay to install the firefox side by side with iceweasles? I mean, at the same time. Curious, Thanks, lina From: #ZHAO LINA# [zhao0...@e.ntu.edu.sg] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 10:24 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: acroread and

Re: Text overlow in Iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/05/2010 09:34 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: [snip] Interesting. I can make that site work too, setting the default to 12. But on another site (www.medical-acupuncture.co.uk) I can't stop the text in the left column encroaching on the central area, no matter what I set the font size to. Sa

Re: Install Office 2007 under 64 bit Wine

2010-10-05 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:39:15 +0200, Klistvud wrote: >> I'm having problem installing Ms Office 2007 under Wine on AMD64 box -- >> when I click the install button I get an endless list of errors in the >> terminal, mainly to do with things being unimplemented. And the install >> progress bar *never

Re: Text overlow in Iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Oct 2010, John Hasler wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I'm not sure if it is a design fault in the sites or a bug in Firefox. > > It is a design fault, and a common one. I see the problem when I visit > the site with my default font size set to 18. It goes away when I set > it to 12 (I

opensync-0.22 packages for Debian squeeze, testers wanted

2010-10-05 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, I finally managed to allocate some free time and started reverting Debian squeeze to opensync-0.22. This should make Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices work again. The current plan (which has not been approved by the Debian release team yet) is to upload a 0.22 package with some additiona

RE: acroread and iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread #ZHAO LINA#
It's pretty annoying especially when sometimes you need a bunch of papers. I cannot uninstall it, can somesome provide some solutions? Or anyone who works fine to open the pdf within iceweasel time and time again would love to share how they handle it. I did not encounter that problem before wh

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
[Please reply only to the list, as per the CoC.] On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:59:04 +0300 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Celejar writes: > > ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4 > > I just get > > Unsupported codec for output stream #0.1 > > on debian unstable with ffmpeg 4:0.5.2-4. I'm using 5:0.6~s

Re: acroread and iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 13:44 +, #ZHAO LINA# wrote: > Hi, > > When I tried to use acroread my.pdf > it showed me, > > Gtk-Message: Failed to load module > "canberra-gtk-module": /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so: > wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 > > It's not the main point caus

Messed up IW awsomebar autocompletion

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
Hi, I'm experiencing baffling behavior with the autocompletion feature in IW (Iceweasel / Firefox, for the search engines). I have several profiles; in one of them, everything works fine, but in another, although autocompletion is turned on, only a few results turn up, and many don't (bookmarks a

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:40:46 -0400, Celejar wrote: (...) > Why is this, and is there a happy medium, i.e., a way to keep the size > roughly constant, but to retain quality? Play with "-qscale n" (n=1 better quality/bigger file, n=31 lower quality, smaller file) Greetings, -- Camaleón --

Re: cifs share is not mounted during boot

2010-10-05 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 05. 10. 2010 13:51:39 je Eero Volotinen napisal(a): try mount using ip address ? Are you sure that network is available that time? or add @reboot mount -a on cron crontab ? -- Eero Actually, Eero's answer got me thinking that, at least in your case, perhaps a _netdev mount option

Re: cifs share is not mounted during boot

2010-10-05 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 05. 10. 2010 13:27:57 je Γιώργος Πάλλας napisal(a): I have this cif share in my /etc/fstab which is not mounted during boot and I can't figure out why: //myserver/myData/data1 /media/cifs-shares/dat1 cifs defaults,user,auto,noserverino,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/home/gpall

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Celejar writes: > ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4 I just get Unsupported codec for output stream #0.1 on debian unstable with ffmpeg 4:0.5.2-4. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

acroread and iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread #ZHAO LINA#
Hi, When I tried to use acroread my.pdf it showed me, Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 It's not the main point cause it's no problem view the pdf, the main issue was that, When I opened p

transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Celejar
Hi, I'm dabbling in transcoding flvs (e.g., from YouTube) to mp4s (for uploading to a service (Snapfish) which doesn't support flv. I'm doing something like this: ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4 I find that the above command line reduces the size of the video to about a third of the original,

Re: Text overlow in Iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:38:41 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm using Iceweasel 3.5.13 on Sid. > > I find that on certain sites, e.g. www.peterrussell.com, portions of > text are superimposed on top of one another - a sort of overflow. This > also happens with Iceape but not with Chromium-brows

Re: Text overlow in Iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread John Hasler
Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm not sure if it is a design fault in the sites or a bug in Firefox. It is a design fault, and a common one. I see the problem when I visit the site with my default font size set to 18. It goes away when I set it to 12 (I use Iceweasel). It's a consequence of the des

Re: sid: yaird: -t invalid flag option in kernel image install

2010-10-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:06:28 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: > > I'm not using it! The above linux-image package invokes it. > > I never asked for it. If I remove yaird, the linux-image package > complains that it doesn't find mkinitrd.yaird. > > Even if I generate the initrd.img file using a diff

Intel Wireless 4965AGN in ad-hoc mode

2010-10-05 Thread jeetu.gol...@gmail.com
Hi, I've been grappling with this for quite long and I would sincerely appreciate if someone here could point out what I've been missing. I've been trying to get my wireless card working in ad-hoc mode however strangely my essid ends up with garbled characters. This happens only in ad-hoc mode, i

Intel Wireless 4965AGN in ad-hoc mode

2010-10-05 Thread jeetu.gol...@gmail.com
Hi, I've been grappling with this for quite long and I would sincerely appreciate if someone here could point out what I've been missing. I've been trying to get my wireless card working in ad-hoc mode however strangely my essid ends up with garbled characters. This happens only in ad-hoc mode, i

Re: Text overlow in Iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Oct 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/05/2010 06:38 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Linux is definitely a minority desktop OS, but you really should > present to them the statistics showing that FF has about 25% of the > market. > I did. In fact, on my site it has about half the number of

Re: Text overlow in Iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/05/2010 06:38 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm using Iceweasel 3.5.13 on Sid. 3.6.10 from Experimental. I find that on certain sites, e.g. www.peterrussell.com, portions of text are superimposed on top of one another - a sort of overflow. This also happens with Iceape but not with Chrom

Re: cifs share is not mounted during boot

2010-10-05 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/10/5 Γιώργος Πάλλας : > Hello to all! > > I have this cif share in my /etc/fstab which is not mounted during boot > and I can't figure out why: > > //myserver/myData/data1             /media/cifs-shares/dat1 > cifs > defaults,user,auto,noserverino,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/home/gpall/Docu

Text overlow in Iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm using Iceweasel 3.5.13 on Sid. I find that on certain sites, e.g. www.peterrussell.com, portions of text are superimposed on top of one another - a sort of overflow. This also happens with Iceape but not with Chromium-browser. Not a new problem, actually, but it is turning up in a site that

cifs share is not mounted during boot

2010-10-05 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hello to all! I have this cif share in my /etc/fstab which is not mounted during boot and I can't figure out why: //myserver/myData/data1 /media/cifs-shares/dat1 cifs defaults,user,auto,noserverino,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/home/gpall/Documents/samba_credentials.txt

Re: deluge to handle torrents

2010-10-05 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 06:53:48 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Tue October 5 2010, Camaleón wrote: >> Then you're lucky :-) >> >> But I'm afraid briand does not have that option (me neither) and that >> is what we are trying to figure out (why and how to solve it). > > so, how did it get there,

Re: deluge to handle torrents

2010-10-05 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue October 5 2010, Camaleón wrote: > Then you're lucky :-) > > But I'm afraid briand does not have that option (me neither) and that is > what we are trying to figure out (why and how to solve it). so, how did it get there, and how can you copy that behavior? I didn't see an entry in about:con

Re: Moving a boot partition to a more stable format

2010-10-05 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I sent the below message a couple of days ago, but now I think the answer is simple, i.) Copy the files off boot, ii.) Turn sda1 and sdb1 into a RAID1 array iii.) Copy the files back iv.) Reinstall grub on both the hard drives, Does this sound about right? I presume I'll have remove all of th

Re: freezing debian

2010-10-05 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 05. 10. 2010 09:40:13 je Sergio Fanton napisal(a): buon giorno... Benvenuto su Debian. Devi sapere che questa e' la lista in Inglese; per ottenere risposte hai due possibilita': 1. usare la lista italiana (debian-user-ital...@lists.debian.org o giu' di li' mi pare sia l'indirizzo)

Re: deluge to handle torrents

2010-10-05 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 05:39:19 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Tue October 5 2010, Camaleón wrote: >> Do you have registered ".torrent" extension within GNOME (or your DE)? >> You can download a ".torrent" file and the run "gnomevfs-info >> file.torrent". It will display the information for that

Re: deluge to handle torrents

2010-10-05 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue October 5 2010, Camaleón wrote: > Do you have registered ".torrent" extension within GNOME (or your DE)? > You can download a ".torrent" file and the run "gnomevfs-info > file.torrent". It will display the information for that specific mime > type. in Iceweasel, under the Preferences menu-

Re: Installation issues of Debian 5.0.6 "Lenny"

2010-10-05 Thread Angus Hedger
On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 23:22:03 -0800 Greg Madden wrote: > > > On Monday 04 October 2010 23:17:56 Klistvud wrote: > > > > However, as a side question, has anyone gotten flash to > > > successfully work in > > > 64 bit OS? > > > > I think there have been rumours that 64-bit flash will be available

Re: sid: yaird: -t invalid flag option in kernel image install

2010-10-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-05 10:12 +0200, Joel Roth wrote: > I used update-initramfs to create the initrd.img. > To satisfy apt, I made a dummy mkinitrd.yaird script > with the one line 'exit 0'. This works around the problem but is not really a satisfactory solution. > I never deliberately chose yaird that I

Re: sid: yaird: -t invalid flag option in kernel image install

2010-10-05 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 09:35:05AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-10-05 09:06 +0200, Joel Roth wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:51:10AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> > >> The yaird package appears to be unmaintained and broken. Why are you > >> using it? > > > > I'm not using it!

Re: how to insert a cd without running a program

2010-10-05 Thread Camaleón
Rick Pasotto writes: > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 07:55:53PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > How is that? Are you in Lenny? If yes, there is a checkbox you can toggle > > to enable/disable that option :-? > > I'm running as much of testing as aptitude will allow me. Then it is located under Nautilus

Re: how to insert a cd without running a program

2010-10-05 Thread Hugo Berus
Hi On 4 October 2010 18:05, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I have some cds I want to rip. When I insert a cd, gxine runs which I > then have to cancel. How can I prevent gxine (or any other program) from > running? I don't see anything under 'System->Preferences->Preferred > Applications' or 'System->Pref

Re: Install Office 2007 under 64 bit Wine

2010-10-05 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 04. 10. 2010 23:40:14 je T o n g napisal(a): Hi, I'm having problem installing Ms Office 2007 under Wine on AMD64 box -- when I click the install button I get an endless list of errors in the terminal, mainly to do with things being unimplemented. And the install progress bar *never p

Re: sid: yaird: -t invalid flag option in kernel image install

2010-10-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-05 09:06 +0200, Joel Roth wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:51:10AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> The yaird package appears to be unmaintained and broken. Why are you >> using it? > > I'm not using it! The above linux-image package invokes it. > > I never asked for it. If I remov

Re: Installation issues of Debian 5.0.6 "Lenny"

2010-10-05 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:04:20 +1100, David Shum wrote: (...) > However, as a side question, has anyone gotten flash to successfully > work in 64 bit OS? Sure, it is working well. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Installation issues of Debian 5.0.6 "Lenny"

2010-10-05 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 04 October 2010 23:17:56 Klistvud wrote: > > However, as a side question, has anyone gotten flash to successfully > > work in > > 64 bit OS? > > I think there have been rumours that 64-bit flash will be available > again soon (or perhaps already is). http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/fl

Re: Installation issues of Debian 5.0.6 "Lenny"

2010-10-05 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 05. 10. 2010 06:04:20 je David Shum napisal(a): Hi Klistvud, Strange! But this time, when I successfully installed Debian 5.0.6 "Lenny" into my AMD 880G chipset with AMD Athlon II x4 processor, and I loaded the OS in normal mode, it went into the desktop, instead of going into screensa

Re: sid: yaird: -t invalid flag option in kernel image install

2010-10-05 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:51:10AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-10-05 08:11 +0200, Joel Roth wrote: > > > This problem has been dogging me for months. > > I have a different, working kernel, but each apt-get install > > is delayed as apt-get tries to configure > > the linux-image package.