Re: being up to date (Was: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain)

2011-01-05 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed January 5 2011 20:31:44 Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > mgb-deb...@yosemite.net : > >Undoing the damage done by insserv is possible but non-trivial. > > So... let's just "work for some years" and it will be better. Non-trivial as in a few days of work (mostly testing), not years. --Mike

Re: repos for squeeze as a base install.

2011-01-05 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 10:57:35 am Sthu Deus wrote: > No. There is backports for squeeze too - to mix up not w/ the backborts > of now stable branch. Are there any packages uploaded to it yet ? -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: lighttpd - fastcgi-php - php5-cgi

2011-01-05 Thread Informatik.hu
It is working well! :) I was trying to make apache2 fcgid/fascgi with suexec or suphp working for two days.. :| With lighttpd + fastcgi_php + php5-cgi it is much more easy and fast! thanx! On 2011.01.05. 21:33, Bob Proulx wrote: Informatik.hu wrote: I would like use lighttpd with fastcgi-php

Re: being up to date (Was: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain)

2011-01-05 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> mgb-deb...@yosemite.net : >Undoing the damage done by insserv is possible but non-trivial. So... let's just "work for some years" and it will be better. -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: A command line tool to serch the contents of an uninstalled deb

2011-01-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Regid Ichira wrote: > Is there a command line tool that can search the contents of a deb that > is not installed and was not downloaded? If so, how does it do that? > Does it basically download Contents.gz and search in it? $ apt-cache show apt-file Description: search for files within Debia

A command line tool to serch the contents of an uninstalled deb

2011-01-05 Thread Regid Ichira
  Is there a command line tool that can search the contents of a deb that is not installed and was not downloaded?  If so, how does it do that?  Does it basically download Contents.gz and search in it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: recursively find duplicate filenames

2011-01-05 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 03:15:01 -0800 (PST), >> S Mathias said: S> find duplicate filenames in a folder recursively? how? It's a (pretty ugly) one-liner if you have something to reverse strings in a file. Put this in (say) /usr/local/bin/rev: #!/usr/bin/perl -n chomp; prin

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-05 Thread briand
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:08:27 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > >>> On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:44:22 -0600 > >>> Javier Vasquez wrote: > >>> > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM, wrote: > > ... > > Someone poste

How to change the font size and type in kchmviewer?

2011-01-05 Thread Thomas Yao
Hi all, I have Debian Squeeze(amd64) installed on my PC. I'm using KDE and I found that the kchmviewer can't change its font size and type to read the chm file. So, how to change the font size and type in kchmviewer? Thank you and wish you a happy new year :) -- Twitter: @ghosTM55 Facebook.com/g

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:50:38PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: .snip > The cars should be (and, > after decades of development, finally are) projected such that > without all the fluids in place they simply won't start, while > notifying the driver with an appropriate flashing

Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 03:44:20PM +, Lisi wrote: > I am after something from never-never land, but I live in hopes. > > I need a sound recorder, and would prefer that it be in Debian Lenny, but a > dual-boot would be possible. It must fulfil the following criteria: > > 1) Be managed by som

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:50:38PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 05. 01. 2011 15:28:47 je Lisi napisal(a): >> On Wednesday 05 January 2011 12:03:59 Camaleón wrote: >> > At least you should have learned one lesson: _never trust_ what your >> > users say and tell them to _prove_ their wording with fa

Re: being up to date (Was: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain)

2011-01-05 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed January 5 2011 15:29:53 Arthur Machlas wrote: > You keep asserting that 'years of DD work have been thrown away'. You > do realise the ordering is still there, right? It's now in the LSB > headers rather than the scripts numbering scheme. That is not correct. The LSB header ordering is wea

Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-05 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Petrus Validus [110105 22:51]: > > > The Lexicon Alpha and Omega use USB 1.0 and thus work with Linux Etch, > > Lenny, and Squeeze; a two- or three-line configuration file may be > > needed to make the Lexicon the default sound device. With Ubuntu > > 10.10, both are fully plug-and-play. > >

Re: being up to date (Was: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain)

2011-01-05 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Mike Bird wrote: > On Wed January 5 2011 13:37:59 Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >> > mgb-deb...@yosemite.net : >> > The issue is that insserv throws away >> > years of work by Debian Developers, >> >> That is not always bad. >> Computers have improved during the la

Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-05 Thread Petrus Validus
> The Lexicon Alpha and Omega use USB 1.0 and thus work with Linux Etch, > Lenny, and Squeeze; a two- or three-line configuration file may be > needed to make the Lexicon the default sound device. With Ubuntu > 10.10, both are fully plug-and-play. This is exciting to hear that such interfaces ha

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2011-01-05 Thread Martin Lorenz
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Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-05 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Lisi [110105 21:42]: > I am after something from never-never land, but I live in hopes. > > I need a sound recorder, and would prefer that it be in Debian Lenny, but a > dual-boot would be possible. It must fulfil the following criteria: > > 1) Be managed by someone who knows a little bit ab

Re: squeeze audio cd and automount

2011-01-05 Thread Filipe Freire
On 5 January 2011 21:21, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:24:01 +0100, Filipe Freire wrote: > > > On 3 January 2011 19:07, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> > besides this audio cd are not detected ay least by sound-juicer and > >> > totem. tried all audio devices. > >> > >> I'm also facing this p

Re: LVS+bond interfaces with vlan

2011-01-05 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le mercredi 05 janvier, Shamrock Morbious écrivit : > Hi, > > I wonder is it possible to set up LVS on bonded vlan interface? > I tried but couldn't do anything what would be work. > Bonded interface with vlan works perfectly but when I try use ipvsadmin and > heartbeat it won't work. > Can anyon

Re: being up to date (Was: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain)

2011-01-05 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed January 5 2011 13:37:59 Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > mgb-deb...@yosemite.net : > > The issue is that insserv throws away > > years of work by Debian Developers, > > That is not always bad. > Computers have improved during the last years, why not their OSes? > > compiz, upstart, lxc,...

being up to date (Was: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain)

2011-01-05 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> mgb-deb...@yosemite.net : > The issue is that insserv throws away > years of work by Debian Developers, That is not always bad. Computers have improved during the last years, why not their OSes? compiz, upstart, lxc,... are "modern" tools for modern use :-) --

Re: repos for squeeze as a base install.

2011-01-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 05 ian 11, 12:31:51, David Jardine wrote: > > Use "testing" and you will move (seamlessly) to wheezy (testing) after > the release. Updates will after that will bring newer versions into > your system regularly. That depends. Immediately after the release it might pour with (more or le

Re: OpenVPN server mode usage?

2011-01-05 Thread Bob Proulx
PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Recently the DDNS server hasn't been updating and I've wondered > about other configurations. But an openvpn configuration shouldn't be depending upon dynamic dns. Have your dynamic IP client contact your server. If the server is static and known then there shouldn't be a

Re: Installation Report, failure to install correctly. How do I identify the Package under which I file my report?

2011-01-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 05 ian 11, 01:28:04, Simon Hollenbach wrote: > Hi Keith, > I assume u clicked ur way through debian.org looking for a CD-Image to > download, so I think ur using Debian 'stable' codename Lenny. You have come > to us at the time of harvest :) The new Debian, now 'testing', codename > Squee

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 05 ian 11, 09:49:38, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Ter, 04 Jan 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >The wireless encrypts the traffic only between my laptop and my AP. > >Beyond my AP the wireless encryptions does not bring any additional > >security. > > That's true, but that's exactly the po

Re: Got recursion not available from...

2011-01-05 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed January 5 2011 12:09:56 vr wrote: > In all cases of experiencing this issue, it's Linux clients querying a > DNS server. The servers queried have been both Windows & Linux. The > client that gets "recursion not available" is always Linux (Lenny). Are you going to show us the named configura

LVS+bond interfaces with vlan

2011-01-05 Thread Shamrock Morbious
Hi, I wonder is it possible to set up LVS on bonded vlan interface? I tried but couldn't do anything what would be work. Bonded interface with vlan works perfectly but when I try use ipvsadmin and heartbeat it won't work. Can anyone point me what's wrong? Or maybe it is not possible to set configu

Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-05 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:44:20 +, Lisi wrote: > >> I need a sound recorder, and would prefer that it be in Debian Lenny, >> but a dual-boot would be possible.  It must fulfil the following >> criteria: >> >> 1) Be managed by someone who knows a l

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Re: lighttpd - fastcgi-php - php5-cgi

2011-01-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Informatik.hu wrote: > I would like use lighttpd with fastcgi-php. Fastcgi-php connects to > php5-cgi on 127.0.0.1:521. > I can start "php5-cgi -b 127.0.0.1:521" with root, but i would like > to run in with another user, like www-data. Ports below 1024 are available only to the root user. In orde

Re: care and feeding (no longer resembles: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?)

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:01:03AM EST, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Lisi wrote: >> On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:15:43 Camaleón wrote: [..] >> They know that the computer needs electricity and that the car needs petrol. >> I doubt that most people know more than that. > Well, I would hope they als

Re: Got recursion not available from...

2011-01-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike Bird wrote: > vr wrote: > > Mike Bird wrote: > > > vr wrote: > > >> nslookup X.X.X.X > > >> ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next server > > >> ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next server > > Are your name servers configured to allow recursion? Older bin

Re: google's ads

2011-01-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 19:21, Richard Riley wrote: > Google ie4linux > No need, I even donated money to the developer once. I still don't consider wine "running" on Linux any more than saying that "I've been to Germany" because I was present on a train that passed through. IE is still running on

Re: squeeze audio cd and automount

2011-01-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:24:01 +0100, Filipe Freire wrote: > On 3 January 2011 19:07, Camaleón wrote: > >> > besides this audio cd are not detected ay least by sound-juicer and >> > totem. tried all audio devices. >> >> I'm also facing this problem: >> >> sound-juicer: doesn't find any CD drives, e

OpenVPN server mode usage?

2011-01-05 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Folk, For several years OpenVPN has provided a reliable tunnel between two machines, Dalton and Joule. Ref. http://142.103.107.138:80/NetworksPage.html Dalton has a static address. Joule has a dynamic address, usually available by reference to joule.yi.org. This depended upon a DDNS server a

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 01:08:27PM EST, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [..] >> When I issue 'acpitool -s' from konsole on X, the system does not shut >> down right and does not resume but boots with the 4 disks messed up. >> > > But sad to say it only

Re: squeeze us-intl w/ dead keys on i386/pc/qwerty keyboard

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:39:53AM EST, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 04 Jan 2011, Doug wrote: > > There's a better way. It uses a subset of Unicode and the "compose" > > key. On a normal PC keyboard, you have to make a compose key out > > You must be joking. That will work well on

Re: Got recursion not available from...

2011-01-05 Thread vr
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 11:57:25 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > On Wed January 5 2011 10:24:25 vr wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:03:36 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: >> > On Wed January 5 2011 09:11:50 vr wrote: >> >> nslookup X.X.X.X >> >> ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next server >> >> ;;

Re: repos for squeeze as a base install.

2011-01-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Simon: > You should comment out the backports repo until squeeze gets stable, > AFAIK backports and volatile are only available for the current > stable version of Debian. No. There is backports for squeeze too - to mix up not w/ the backborts of now stable bra

Re: Got recursion not available from...

2011-01-05 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed January 5 2011 10:24:25 vr wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:03:36 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > > On Wed January 5 2011 09:11:50 vr wrote: > >> nslookup X.X.X.X > >> ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next server > >> ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next server

Re: Limited or no video playback with mkv containing H.264

2011-01-05 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 01/06/2011 12:42 AM, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: Hello; I am about to kill my computer... I have an older AMD Atholon64 3200 With 2GB RAM and an EVGA Geforce 6600 Graphics card (128 mb Graphics Memory) I am running Testing with current Kernel 2.6.32-5-686 I have some .mkv video fil

lighttpd - fastcgi-php - php5-cgi

2011-01-05 Thread Informatik.hu
Hi! I would like use lighttpd with fastcgi-php. Fastcgi-php connects to php5-cgi on 127.0.0.1:521. I can start "php5-cgi -b 127.0.0.1:521" with root, but i would like to run in with another user, like www-data. Exactly i want to run multiple php5-cgi with multiple user (different ports per vi

Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:44:20 +, Lisi wrote: > I need a sound recorder, and would prefer that it be in Debian Lenny, > but a dual-boot would be possible. It must fulfil the following > criteria: > > 1) Be managed by someone who knows a little bit about Linux, less about > Debian and absolutel

Re: Got recursion not available from...

2011-01-05 Thread vr
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:42:07 +0100, (François TOURDE) wrote: > Le 14979ième jour après Epoch, > vr écrivait: > >> On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:03:36 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: >>> On Wed January 5 2011 09:11:50 vr wrote: nslookup X.X.X.X ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next se

Limited or no video playback with mkv containing H.264

2011-01-05 Thread teddieeb
Hello; I am about to kill my computer... I have an older AMD Atholon64 3200 With 2GB RAM and an EVGA Geforce 6600 Graphics card (128 mb Graphics Memory) I am running Testing with current Kernel 2.6.32-5-686 I have some .mkv video files containing H.264 in VLC I get Audio and Solid green scree

Re: Second acount on iceweasel

2011-01-05 Thread godo
On 01/05/2011 05:48 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I have this iceweasel account (debian machine) for technical stuff and another acount (thunderbird) on a win2k machine for my normal email. I want to transfer the win2k account to this machine. How do I do that without getting the two accounts intermingle

Re: Second acount on iceweasel

2011-01-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:48:01 -0800, Gary Roach wrote: > I have this iceweasel account You mean an "icedove account", right? > (debian machine) for technical stuff and another acount (thunderbird) > on a win2k machine for my normal email. I want to transfer the win2k > account to this machine. H

Re: Got recursion not available from...

2011-01-05 Thread François TOURDE
Le 14979ième jour après Epoch, vr écrivait: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:03:36 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: >> On Wed January 5 2011 09:11:50 vr wrote: >>> nslookup X.X.X.X >>> ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next server >>> ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next server

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread Mark
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Mihira Fernando wrote: > On 01/05/2011 11:20 PM, Klistvud wrote: > >> >> Seems I'm one of the few who sincerely think that not all users should, or >> even could, be required to know the inner workings of each and every >> technology they use. In real life, people

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 01/05/2011 11:20 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 05. 01. 2011 15:28:47 je Lisi napisal(a): On Wednesday 05 January 2011 12:03:59 Camaleón wrote: > At least you should have learned one lesson: _never trust_ what your > users say and tell them to _prove_ their wording with facts (that is, by > check

Re: Got recursion not available from...

2011-01-05 Thread vr
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:03:36 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > On Wed January 5 2011 09:11:50 vr wrote: >> nslookup X.X.X.X >> ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next server >> ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next server > > Please "cat /etc/resolv.conf" and post the r

Re: squeeze audio cd and automount

2011-01-05 Thread Filipe Freire
Hi, I looked at the bug report and tried (my drive is ATAPI) sound-juicer -d /dev/sr0 but it tells me I have no permission. I tried again with sudo and it works. When I press play, it plays but gives the message: Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect t

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:44:22 -0600 Javier Vasquez wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM, wrote: ... Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the system. ... acpitool -S => suspend to disk (h

Re: google's ads

2011-01-05 Thread steef
Klistvud schreef: Dne, 05. 01. 2011 13:40:22 je steef napisal(a): dear list, how do i get rid of google's by me unwanted extra's: ads reg., steef There are many ways you could go. Using one of the many ad blocker programs, or FireFox plugins... Using OpenDNS and their filtering capabilities

Second acount on iceweasel

2011-01-05 Thread Gary Roach
I have this iceweasel account (debian machine) for technical stuff and another acount (thunderbird) on a win2k machine for my normal email. I want to transfer the win2k account to this machine. How do I do that without getting the two accounts intermingled. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Got recursion not available from...

2011-01-05 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed January 5 2011 09:11:50 vr wrote: > nslookup X.X.X.X > ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next server > ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next server Please "cat /etc/resolv.conf" and post the result here. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: google's ads

2011-01-05 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 05. 01. 2011 13:40:22 je steef napisal(a): dear list, how do i get rid of google's by me unwanted extra's: ads reg., steef There are many ways you could go. Using one of the many ad blocker programs, or FireFox plugins... Using OpenDNS and their filtering capabilities... (my approach;

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 16:07:41 Camaleón wrote: > He, he... You may have not read the "obscure stories" that happen at > tech. support centers: > > http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_power.shtml > > (read, read on...) :-) ! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Zeroth rule of support - never trust your user's to tell you the entire story (corollary - people lie about what happened) First rule of support - before deleting *anything* make a backup copy yourself -- Patrick Ouellette p...@flying-gecko.net ne4po (at) arrl (dot) net

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 05. 01. 2011 15:28:47 je Lisi napisal(a): On Wednesday 05 January 2011 12:03:59 Camaleón wrote: > At least you should have learned one lesson: _never trust_ what your > users say and tell them to _prove_ their wording with facts (that is, by > checking with her that the data was properly

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
Camaleón wrote: They know that the computer needs electricity and that the car needs petrol. I doubt that most people know more than that. Really!!?? I wish they remember -at least- just that :-P He, he... You may have not read the "obscure stories" that happen at tech. support centers:

Re: google's ads

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Riley
Sjoerd Hardeman writes: > Dotan Cohen schreef: >> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 15:34, Simon Hollenbach >> wrote: >>> Does IE support addons by now? im not talking about toolbars... >>> >> >> Does IE run on Debian by now?!? > Actually, using wine, it does. > > Sjoerd Google ie4linux -- To UNSUBSCR

Got recursion not available from...

2011-01-05 Thread vr
I'm using a Lenny system to host Postfix and Windows 2003 for name resolution. More frequently than I probably should, I will see NOQUEUE in /var/log/mail.log related to DNS lookups. I've not yet narrowed it down to forward lookups, reverse lookups or both. I originally suspected the Windows

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2011-01-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Debian package respects all sysadmin choices. We do not overwrite them. If not, that is a serious bug. Some careful and respectful questining to keep this promise seem to annoy some people who have not found typical work around steps. (Besides, there were some bug on apatch2 package.) On

Re: google's ads

2011-01-05 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Dotan Cohen schreef: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 15:34, Simon Hollenbach wrote: Does IE support addons by now? im not talking about toolbars... Does IE run on Debian by now?!? Actually, using wine, it does. Sjoerd signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:12:26 -0500, Toan Pham wrote: > Here is the ref. Please read paragraph at section "how much swap do i > need?". This article is pretty good for those who want to understand > swap space. > > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq Uh? :-? Ah, now I realize what you

Re: google's ads

2011-01-05 Thread steef
Camaleón schreef: On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:52:10 +0100, steef wrote: Camaleón schreef: On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:40:22 +0100, steef wrote: how do i get rid of google's by me unwanted extra's: ads What browser are you using? There are tons of add-ons for Firefox/Ice

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:44:22 -0600 Javier Vasquez wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM, wrote: ... Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the system. ... acpitool -S => suspend to disk (hibernate) => Puts mach

Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-05 Thread godo
Krec, Audacity etc. are non-starters because they assume that you would know how to use at least a simple mixer. Forgot to say...you don't have to know that. There is only one slider for input (mic.) volume and that's enough. Look at the pic.: www.dobosevic.com/nix/audacity.png When I recordin

Re: USB keyboard compatibility with Debian

2011-01-05 Thread mat brown
> I'm thinking of getting a USB keyboard to use with my laptop. Is there > anything I should know about compatibility issues? > Some of the extra features of the fancier usb keyboards might take a bit of a configuring, but I've never had a usb keyboard which - as a basic keyboard - didn't just wo

Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-05 Thread Petrus Validus
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 15:44 +, Lisi wrote: > I am after something from never-never land, but I live in hopes. > > I need a sound recorder, and would prefer that it be in Debian Lenny, > but a dual-boot would be possible. It must fulfil the following > criteria: Interesting requirements to s

Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-05 Thread godo
On 01/05/2011 04:44 PM, Lisi wrote: I am after something from never-never land, but I live in hopes. I need a sound recorder, and would prefer that it be in Debian Lenny, but a dual-boot would be possible. It must fulfil the following criteria: 1) Be managed by someone who knows a little bit a

Re: google's ads

2011-01-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:52:10 +0100, steef wrote: > Camaleón schreef: >> On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:40:22 +0100, steef wrote: >> >> >>> how do i get rid of google's by me unwanted extra's: ads >>> >> What browser are you using? >> >> There are tons of add-ons for Firefox/Iceweael aimed to >> remo

Re: unattended upgrades: bug 609023

2011-01-05 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-01-05 a las 14:43 +, Tony van der Hoff escribió: (resending to the list) > On 05/01/11 12:50, Camaleón wrote: >> If my findings are correct, the problem is in the script itself and the >> package should be updated... but being for lenny (stable), I'm not sure >> if that is possible. >

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-05 Thread Toan Pham
Here is the ref. Please read paragraph at section "how much swap do i need?". This article is pretty good for those who want to understand swap space. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq Sorry that i reference a Ubuntu source on this Debian mailing list. -toan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:50:47 +, Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:15:43 Camaleón wrote: >> What would you think if a person tells you that he thought his car was >> going to be fed "automatically"? Hey, he didn't know there were oil >> stations that provide such facilities and he a

care and feeding (no longer resembles: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?)

2011-01-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:15:43 Camaleón wrote: What would you think if a person tells you that he thought his car was going to be fed "automatically"? Hey, he didn't know there were oil stations that provide such facilities and he also thought that being year 2011 the cars

Re: google's ads

2011-01-05 Thread steef
Camaleón schreef: On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:40:22 +0100, steef wrote: how do i get rid of google's by me unwanted extra's: ads What browser are you using? There are tons of add-ons for Firefox/Iceweael aimed to removing/blocking all kind of ads/javascript/multimedia... Greetings,

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:15:43 Camaleón wrote: > What would you think if a person tells you that he thought his car was > going to be fed "automatically"? Hey, he didn't know there were oil > stations that provide such facilities and he also thought that being year > 2011 the cars do not nee

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 09:56:36AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > What you have is some sort of image format inside a PDF "container". It > is probably already compressed, which is why Zip had little effect on > it. You need to extract the image, use image software to shrink it, and > put it back in

Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-05 Thread Lisi
I am after something from never-never land, but I live in hopes. I need a sound recorder, and would prefer that it be in Debian Lenny, but a dual-boot would be possible. It must fulfil the following criteria: 1) Be managed by someone who knows a little bit about Linux, less about Debian and ab

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:01:47 -0500, Toan Pham wrote: > camaleon, > > > FYI, that is a recommended setting. What are your sources? :-) Last time I checked, in order to hibernate the computer you needed at least the same amount of ram your computer had but I know nothing about that x2 rule s

USB keyboard compatibility with Debian

2011-01-05 Thread George
I'm thinking of getting a USB keyboard to use with my laptop. Is there anything I should know about compatibility issues? -- 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.

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:37:25 +, Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2011 14:26:32 Camaleón wrote: >> So, no... people who pretend to give "value" to his data and has not >> performed a single backup copy of his files in years, I just simply >> say, "heck, no, those files weren't that importa

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 05 Jan 2011, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011 14:26:32 Camaleón wrote: So, no... people who pretend to give "value" to his data and has not performed a single backup copy of his files in years, I just simply say, "heck, no, those files weren't that important". You aren't making

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-05 Thread Toan Pham
camaleon, FYI, that is a recommended setting. Optimal values depends on multiple factors such as: 1. total amount of physical ram, 2. percentage of actual utilized ram, 3. average cached size to swap partition etc. -toan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 14:26:32 Camaleón wrote: > So, no... people who pretend to give "value" to his data and has not > performed a single backup copy of his files in years, I just simply say, > "heck, no, those files weren't that important". You aren't making enough allowance for the fact

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 12:03:59 Camaleón wrote: > At least you should have learned one lesson: _never trust_ what your > users say and tell them to _prove_ their wording with facts (that is, by > checking with her that the data was properly backed up and can be > restored from the aforementio

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:49:43 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 13:09, Camaleón wrote: >> Last backup was from a year ago, that should give you some hints about >> how valuable is data for the user. >> >> > That is a hint about whether the computer is a tool or a lifestyle for > t

Re: repos for squeeze as a base install.

2011-01-05 Thread Simon Hollenbach
> So, the only repo I need now is testing, and, may backports for squeeze > - is it correct? You should comment out the backports repo until squeeze gets stable, AFAIK backports and volatile are only available for the current stable version of Debian. Regards Simon

Re: google's ads

2011-01-05 Thread John Hasler
Simon writes: > Assuming you are using firefox/iceweasel/chrome you can use adblock > plus with EasyList filters... Or you can use Privoxy with any browser at all. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: google's ads

2011-01-05 Thread darkestkhan
2011/1/5 Dotan Cohen : > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 15:34, Simon Hollenbach > wrote: >> Does IE support addons by now? im not talking about toolbars... >> > > Does IE run on Debian by now?!? > Of course - for what other reason do you think we have qemu? after all we don't have nice web browser . . .

Re: google's ads

2011-01-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 15:34, Simon Hollenbach wrote: > Does IE support addons by now? im not talking about toolbars... > Does IE run on Debian by now?!? On the subject of ads, in addition to Adblock that was suggested, I might add a good hosts file and Flashblock. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibb

Re: google's ads

2011-01-05 Thread Simon Hollenbach
> how do i get rid of google's by me unwanted extra's: ads Assuming you are using firefox/iceweasel/chrome you can use adblock plus with EasyList filters, there may be additonal filters available for your region, e.g. EasyList Germany. I dont know if this addon is available for Opera/IE. Does IE

Re: google's ads

2011-01-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:40:22 +0100, steef wrote: > how do i get rid of google's by me unwanted extra's: ads What browser are you using? There are tons of add-ons for Firefox/Iceweael aimed to removing/blocking all kind of ads/javascript/multimedia... Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRI

google's ads

2011-01-05 Thread steef
dear list, how do i get rid of google's by me unwanted extra's: ads reg., steef -- 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/4d2466b6.8050...@home.nl

Re: why is this html looks like this?

2011-01-05 Thread teddieeb
You posted the same link twice, and the .png file has a big black block over most of it on my system (I think I may have an X-related video glitch on my box), so I can't see what it's supposed to be. - I got the black box too, on my NON X related Blackberry, Though phone browsers aren't the

Re: unattended upgrades

2011-01-05 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:51:51 +0100, Simon Hollenbach wrote: >> > Thanks for replying, Cameleon, but as I said, apt-get install just >> > did it effortlessly. No interaction required. >> >> No prompts asking you about when using "apt-get upgrade"? Weird, >> because that was what the log said and t

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-05 Thread teddieeb
No, she didn't. She thought that because she had used the program Picasa, then Picasa would magically produce her 'photos. She did not have them online. There was only the one copy on her computer. She just usually viewed them with Picasa. I did paid support. I had to support no matter how

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