Re: Atomic operations

2010-11-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 19 November 2010 19:59:43 T. Alex Chen wrote: > I post the following message on debian-devel mailing list but someone says > it is the wrong one so I post it here again. Yes, debian-devel is for discussion around the developement of Debian, particularly updates to policy and release goa

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:20:21 -0500 john wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:26:52 + > Michal wrote: > > > On 19/11/10 05:37, Dan Serban wrote: > > > After years of running the mozilla suite (remember when you couldn't > > > refresh a POST document in mozilla 0.6?) and begrudgingly moving to > -

Atomic operations

2010-11-19 Thread T. Alex Chen
I post the following message on debian-devel mailing list but someone says it is the wrong one so I post it here again. Please bear with me if you have already seen it. == I want to do atomic operation and find there is already such implementation in Linux, e.g. atomic_add, atomic_set, a

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:20:21 -0500 john shared this with us all: >I thought I was alone in this, I've also ditched Iceweasel. I've >found claws-mail to be just fine, I also thought this, have dumped Iceweasel, finally got fed up, and have used claws-mail for quite a long time and like it very mu

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread john
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:26:52 + Michal wrote: > On 19/11/10 05:37, Dan Serban wrote: > > After years of running the mozilla suite (remember when you couldn't > > refresh a POST document in mozilla 0.6?) and begrudgingly moving to --snipp> > > > Just thought I'd make some noise and

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Dan Serban
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:46:11 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 18 nov 10, 21:37:32, Dan Serban wrote: > > > > I now have chromium and claws at my beck and call. Man.. are they > > ever fast. > > While I like claws mail, last time I looked at it it was lacking IMAP > IDLE support. It does

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-19 Thread Javier Barroso
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:25:27 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: > >> On 19 November 2010 14:03, Alan Ianson wrote: >>> Aptitude installs recommends by default. That can be turned off in >>> "Options -> Preferences -> Dependency handling -> Install recom

Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player

2010-11-19 Thread Bob
On 10/22/2010 05:16 PM, DM wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:42:30AM +0800, Bob wrote: On 10/22/2010 03:10 AM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:49:00 +0800 Bob wrote: On 09/06/2010 03:13 AM, Celejar wrote: I've come up with 3 potential solution [cut] 2

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:13:24 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:03:44 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > >> Mozilla products are memory/CPU hogs, yes. I hope newer versions can >> correct that. > > I often wonder about this; IIRC, FF used to advertise itself as > "lightweight". Does it s

squeeze/amd64/gnome - edid error, 5 minutes to boot

2010-11-19 Thread Pablo Sánchez
Hi there, new to the list. I'm trying to run squeeze/amd64/gnome on a compaq 6820S . Video card is a mobile radeon 1350 : 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV516 [Mobility Radeon X1350] Driver in use in "radeon", and it seems is using kms r...@nb-pablo:/home/pablo# lsmod

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On 11/19/2010 04:23 PM, Petrus Validus wrote: Mozilla products are memory/CPU hogs, yes. I hope newer versions can correct that. I often wonder about this; IIRC, FF used to advertise itself as "lightweight". Does it still do that? Was it ever accurate? Maybe at version 1.0...but it just s

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20101119161324.2ed2f1a8.cele...@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote: >On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:03:44 + (UTC) >Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:37:32 -0800, Dan Serban wrote: >> > After years of running the mozilla suite (remember when you couldn't >> > refresh a POST document in mozilla 0.6?)

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Petrus Validus
> > Mozilla products are memory/CPU hogs, yes. I hope newer versions can > > correct that. > > I often wonder about this; IIRC, FF used to advertise itself as > "lightweight". Does it still do that? Was it ever accurate? Maybe at version 1.0...but it just seems to become more and more bloated

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:03:44 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:37:32 -0800, Dan Serban wrote: > > > After years of running the mozilla suite (remember when you couldn't > > refresh a POST document in mozilla 0.6?) and begrudgingly moving to > > Firefox, then falling in love wi

Re: wireless keyboard not detected if not usb-hub connected

2010-11-19 Thread Raphaël
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 07:03:11PM +0200, Raphaël Droz wrote: > Hi, > I recently bought a (used) keyboard > (http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/systembuilders/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=036) > to connect it to my old eeepc 701 > I also have a USB hub > (http://www.topproduct.nl/hardware/hubs/12935-typh

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 19 nov 10, 05:49:13, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > Haven't switched to IMAP yet, still on Gmail at this point. And what's the problem? I use Gmail via IMAP just fine. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-c

Re: apt-listbug weirdness

2010-11-19 Thread Wayne Topa
On 11/19/2010 12:45 AM, Dan Serban wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:03:01 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I am enjoying the use of apt-listbug. Just now it died saying it couldn' t find /dev/tty :-( Tried it 2x. Then I ran 'apt-get dist-upgrade' in script mode and it ran... Go figure. A bug

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, November 19, 2010 11:26 am, Michal wrote: > Funnily, on the Windows 7 boxes I have I chucked Firefox for IE9 64bit > Betas. The speed increase I get is MASSIVE. Missing some addon's which > annoys me, but it's better then the constant problems I see with Firefox You should be comparing t

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Michal
On 19/11/10 05:37, Dan Serban wrote: After years of running the mozilla suite (remember when you couldn't refresh a POST document in mozilla 0.6?) and begrudgingly moving to Firefox, then falling in love with iceweasel. Today, sad as it is, is when I feel that I must announce that I decided to:

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:31:29 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 08:03:44AM +, Camale?n wrote: > >> I have to stick with Icedove because is one of the two MUAs I know that >> can handle html e-mails in Linux. The second is Evolution, but I think >> is even slower than Icedove. >

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 03:26, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 19 Nov 2010, Dan Serban wrote: >> >> Just thought I'd make some noise and share, I feel so free.  \o/ > > Thanks for the heads up but you can, you know, just delete packages without > having to inform anyone about it. Where's the f

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 21:37, Dan Serban wrote: > After years of running the mozilla suite (remember when you couldn't > refresh a POST document in mozilla 0.6?) and begrudgingly moving to > Firefox, then falling in love with iceweasel.  Today, sad as it is, > is when I feel that I must announce

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 08:03:44AM +, Camale?n wrote: > I have to stick with Icedove because is one of the two MUAs I know that > can handle html e-mails in Linux. The second is Evolution, but I think is > even slower than Icedove. Mutt works great. -- Carl Fink n

Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-11-19 Thread jidanni
>> > "PG(" == Peter G (nephros) writes: >> PG(> I think it is .modeset=0 (e.g. "radeon.modeset=0"). >> PG(> I use both: "vmlinuz foo radeon.modeset=0 modeset=0" which does work. OK, I finally figured it out: $ zgrep -c modeset /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-2.6.32/Documentation/kernel-parameters.t

Re: Claws mail and HTML formatting (was: Re: Frustration made me do it.)

2010-11-19 Thread Angus Hedger
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:25:11 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > Yep, but that only covers the third part of my "perverse" > needings }:-) We all have our guilty pleasures! ;) > Besides, I still need forwarding "inline". > > Greetings, > -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP

Re: Claws mail and HTML formatting

2010-11-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 11/19/2010 06:25 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Yep, but that only covers the third part of my "perverse" needings }:-) > > Besides, I still need forwarding "inline". > > Greetings, and the ability to remove the offending To:'s... from the forward.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 11/19/2010 03:03 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Icedove 3.x has an option to tell do not index e-mails. Not sure how it > goes because I'm still with 2.x branch. edit-preferences-Advanced- uncheck Enable Global Search and indexer -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: encrypt file names zip

2010-11-19 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:21:28 +0100, Arthur Bela wrote: > i can recursively zip a folder with password with: > > zip -re some-folder.zip some-folder/ > > but how can i "encrypt" the filenames in the zip file? cause i can see > them, i just only can't extract them! > > or there isn't any way? 7-z

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Sex, 19 Nov 2010, Dan Serban wrote: After years of running the mozilla suite (remember when you couldn't refresh a POST document in mozilla 0.6?) and begrudgingly moving to Firefox, then falling in love with iceweasel. Today, sad as it is, is when I feel that I must announce that I decided to

Re: Claws mail and HTML formatting (was: Re: Frustration made me do it.)

2010-11-19 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:10:53 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 19 nov 10, 11:05:53, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Damn! Yes, I need sending/resending/forwarding those fancy e-mails that >> annoy some people >:-) > > Forwarding as attachment might work... Yep, but that only covers the third part of

Re: Claws mail and HTML formatting (was: Re: Frustration made me do it.)

2010-11-19 Thread Angus Hedger
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:10:53 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 19 nov 10, 11:05:53, Camaleón wrote: > > > > Damn! Yes, I need sending/resending/forwarding those fancy e-mails > > that annoy some people >:-) > > Forwarding as attachment might work... As far as I know, forwarding works fine,

Re: Claws mail and HTML formatting (was: Re: Frustration made me do it.)

2010-11-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 19 nov 10, 11:05:53, Camaleón wrote: > > Damn! Yes, I need sending/resending/forwarding those fancy e-mails that > annoy some people >:-) Forwarding as attachment might work... Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mail

Re: Claws mail and HTML formatting (was: Re: Frustration made me do it.)

2010-11-19 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:45:29 +, Angus Hedger wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:27:01 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > >> > And with the right plugins, from the repo, it does HTML email, and >> > RSS like a champion. (and pgp of cause) >> >> Can you expand that information? > > It views well, but

Re: encrypt file names zip

2010-11-19 Thread Simon Hollenbach
- Original message - > i can recursively zip a folder with password with: > > zip -re some-folder.zip some-folder/ > > but how can i "encrypt" the filenames in the zip file? cause i can see > them, i just only can't extract them! > > or there isn't any way? 7-zip under windows can do it

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-19 Thread Jason Heeris
On 19 November 2010 18:39, Camaleón wrote: >> On 19 November 2010 18:17, Camaleón wrote: > It has to be global in order to affect all package manager tools. If not, > when a user installs a package by other means, the "tabu" one could be > also installed and that should be prevented. Well, I'm sp

Re: encrypt file names zip

2010-11-19 Thread Didar Hossain
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Arthur Bela wrote: > i can recursively zip a folder with password with: > > zip -re some-folder.zip some-folder/ > > but how can i "encrypt" the filenames in the zip file? cause i can see > them, i just only can't extract them! > > or there isn't any way? 7-zip und

Re: Claws mail and HTML formatting (was: Re: Frustration made me do it.)

2010-11-19 Thread Angus Hedger
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:27:01 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:18:43 +, Angus Hedger wrote: > > > Claw mail is pretty dam fast, I havent bothered to learn the search > > function very well yet, but meh. > > > > And with the right plugins, from the repo, it does HTML email

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-19 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:24:36 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 19 November 2010 18:17, Camaleón wrote: >> Something like having a "global switch" that prevents any of dpkg, apt- >> get, aptitude... to get a package going through and warns the user >> about it. > > It doesn't need to be global, some

Claws mail and HTML formatting (was: Re: Frustration made me do it.)

2010-11-19 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:18:43 +, Angus Hedger wrote: > Claw mail is pretty dam fast, I havent bothered to learn the search > function very well yet, but meh. > > And with the right plugins, from the repo, it does HTML email, and RSS > like a champion. (and pgp of cause) Can you expand that in

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-19 Thread Jason Heeris
On 19 November 2010 18:17, Camaleón wrote: > Something like having a "global switch" that prevents any of dpkg, apt- > get, aptitude... to get a package going through and warns the user about > it. It doesn't need to be global, something that works with either apt or aptitude will do, since these

encrypt file names zip

2010-11-19 Thread Arthur Bela
i can recursively zip a folder with password with: zip -re some-folder.zip some-folder/ but how can i "encrypt" the filenames in the zip file? cause i can see them, i just only can't extract them! or there isn't any way? 7-zip under windows can do it :O ubuntu 10.10 Thank you for any answer!

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:37:32 -0800 Dan Serban wrote: > After years of running the mozilla suite (remember when you couldn't > refresh a POST document in mozilla 0.6?) and begrudgingly moving to > Firefox, then falling in love with iceweasel. Today, sad as it is, > is when I feel that I must anno

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-19 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:25:27 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 19 November 2010 14:03, Alan Ianson wrote: >> Aptitude installs recommends by default. That can be turned off in >> "Options -> Preferences -> Dependency handling -> Install recommended >> packages automatically". > > I still want to i

can't read asus support dvd

2010-11-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I bought an asus M4N98TD EVO mobo and it comes with a (windoze) install DVD that says DVD ROM up front. I put it in the '0 dev='/dev/scd0' rwrw-- : 'HP' 'DVD Writer 1140r' ' and I get errors. Is it a bad DVD or is it some special format only for windoze? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: "unable to register inhibitor with session bus"

2010-11-19 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 19. 11. 2010 09:17:56 je Sthu Deus napisal(a): Thank You for Your explanation, Simon: > It was just that one kid, what appears to be a conversation was a > quoting error. > And he apologized, maybe cause Stan Hoeppner had the right method of > convincing him to do so... > Don't let this ups

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 19. 11. 2010 06:37:32 je Dan Serban napisal(a): Icedove likes to make my computer behave like a 386 (downloading and indexing millions of IMAP messages.. Erm ... isn't that what computing is all about? I mean, if you look closer, some programmers think that their mission won't be accomp

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 18 nov 10, 21:37:32, Dan Serban wrote: > > I now have chromium and claws at my beck and call. Man.. are they > ever fast. While I like claws mail, last time I looked at it it was lacking IMAP IDLE support. I would be interested to switch away from iceweasel if there was something like

Re: "unable to register inhibitor with session bus"

2010-11-19 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your explanation, Simon: > It was just that one kid, what appears to be a conversation was a > quoting error. > And he apologized, maybe cause Stan Hoeppner had the right method of > convincing him to do so... > > Don't let this upset u, reviewing the thread before posting would >

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:37:32 -0800, Dan Serban wrote: > After years of running the mozilla suite (remember when you couldn't > refresh a POST document in mozilla 0.6?) and begrudgingly moving to > Firefox, then falling in love with iceweasel. Today, sad as it is, is > when I feel that I must anno