Re: repos for squeeze as a base install.

2011-01-07 Thread Doug
On 01/08/2011 02:12 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: Andrei wrote: Add the repository to your sources.list, update and then use aptitude to search for packages with the respective origin [~O or ?origin(repository)], but it's simpler to just open the repository in /snip/ Where is this sources list, and wh

Re: repos for squeeze as a base install.

2011-01-07 Thread Sthu Deus
Andrei wrote: > Add the repository to your sources.list, update and then use aptitude > to search for packages with the respective origin [~O or > ?origin(repository)], but it's simpler to just open the repository in I've got plenty of packages trying w/: /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/aptitude search

Input gets slow after I opened Iceweasel for a long time

2011-01-07 Thread Thomas Yao
Hi all, I'm using Debian Squeeze(amd64) on my PC, using KDE and SCIM input method. The problem I found recently is that after I opened Iceweasel for a long time, the input gets really slow. It tooks Iceweasel almost 5 seconds to display all the characters I typed(say around 20 characters). Any guy

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Neil Youngman: > On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:53:05 Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Neil Youngman: >>> Since I "upgraded" to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to >>> the point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to >>> respond to anything else. >> >> What's in the syslog? Does 't

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Neil Youngman: > On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:53:05 Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Neil Youngman: >> >>> It can take several seconds to pop up a menu and, in the worst case, >>> swapping from one window to another can take minutes, even if the other >>> window is a simple xterm. I have also observed windows

Re: EXT4 File system viewer for Windows 7 pro 64 bit

2011-01-07 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2011-01-07 18:29:06 -0600, John Foster wrote: > On 1/7/2011 12:40 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >On Vi, 07 ian 11, 10:50:33, John W Foster wrote: > >>I have to use Windows 7 Pro 64 bit for some work I do. i want to know if > >>anyone knows of a viewer or file manager that I can install in Windows

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-07 Thread Mark
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Klistvud wrote: > > For people really concerned with their security in public wifi spots, > perhaps the best I can recommend is: just run off of a live CD. It's really > a great security policy once you get used to it being somewhat slower; if > you can get suspend

Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-07 Thread Mark
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Lisi wrote: > > [snip] > > I have also had another look at Audacity, as suggested. But there is just > too > much there that I simply don't understand. However, I shall return to it > if > I get nowhere with gnome-media. > I will say from personal experience tha

Re: EXT4 File system viewer for Windows 7 pro 64 bit

2011-01-07 Thread John Foster
On 1/7/2011 12:40 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 07 ian 11, 10:50:33, John W Foster wrote: I have to use Windows 7 Pro 64 bit for some work I do. i want to know if anyone knows of a viewer or file manager that I can install in Windows 7 64bit that will allow me to peruse or copy to& from a De

Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-07 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 19:22:29 Camaleón wrote: > Another option could be installing the "gnome-media" metapackage that has > the gnome-sound-recorder app, but I personally, prefer not to mix desktop > environments libraries/applications (call me "old-fashioned", but I hate > dealing with sil

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Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-07 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 07. 01. 2011 19:53:44 je Andrei Popescu napisal(a): For people really concerned with their security in public wifi spots, perhaps the best I can recommend is: just run off of a live CD. It's really a great security policy once you get used to it being somewhat slower; if you can get su

Re: adding an option for nvidia driver

2011-01-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-07 22:20 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I can't suspend to ram twice. Once works but never the second time. > > So I googled that and there are hints that the nvidia driver is a > fault and the proposed fix is to add 'Nvreg_Mobile=3' as module > option. > > What is the right way to do

adding an option for nvidia driver

2011-01-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I can't suspend to ram twice. Once works but never the second time. So I googled that and there are hints that the nvidia driver is a fault and the proposed fix is to add 'Nvreg_Mobile=3' as module option. What is the right way to do that? The solutions varied from modifying /etc/modules

how to use routing with LXC?

2011-01-07 Thread Mike
The instructions that I've seen for LXC suggest creating a bridge in the host, placing its name in lxc.network.link. On a diskless system I have eth0 & eth1, and create the bridge on eth1. I can't put eth0 in a bridge, because it's the port for the NFS root. But when I want traffic to go from

Re: Sun Java upgrade to 1.6.0_23 ?

2011-01-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:16:14 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 12:57 +, Camaleón wrote: >> Last time I installed (you don't "update" java but "install" a new >> release) Java JRE from Oracle's site was a straight forward step. After >> that, you can run "update-alternative

Re: SSL Cert

2011-01-07 Thread Informatik.hu
certs already installed, thanx! one more question: i would like to redirect https://*.mydomain.com to https://secure.mydomain.com in lighttpd. any suggestions? On 2011.01.07. 20:17, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:14:34 +0100, Informatik.hu wrote: Do you know a cheap, safe and well

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:53:44 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 07 ian 11, 16:23:16, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> On Sex, 07 Jan 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >If you consider an open wireless to be more dangerous, what additional >> >protective measures do you suggest? >> >> Enable encrypt

Re: rendering foreign characters in apache?

2011-01-07 Thread Ricardo Ramírez
Hi, take a look to this file: /etc/apache2/conf.d/charset By default have commented the line *AddDefaultCharset UTF-8* uncomment that line and reload apache, maybe help you Regards. 2011/1/7 Camaleón > On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:51:58 -0500, Zachary Uram wrote: > > > Running apache2 on Debian tes

Re: SSL Cert

2011-01-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:14:34 +0100, Informatik.hu wrote: > Do you know a cheap, safe and well known trusted ssl certificate > provider? I would like to use it with lighttpd, postfix and dovecot. This is what I use for apache2 (https), cyrus (pop3s/imaps) and postfix (smtps): http://www.rapidssl

Re: EXT4 File system viewer for Windows 7 pro 64 bit

2011-01-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:50:33 -0600, John W Foster wrote: > I have to use Windows 7 Pro 64 bit for some work I do. i want to know if > anyone knows of a viewer or file manager that I can install in Windows 7 > 64bit that will allow me to peruse or copy to & from a Debian EXT4 file > system. I have

Mouse buttons hang on Dell C840 squeeze

2011-01-07 Thread Paul Boughner
I have had a problem getting my mouse buttons to complete a click on anything. This began after I wiped lenny and installed squeeze. If I click on any button in the GUI, the mouse will hang and if I let it go long enough I will get an error 'unable to capture your mouse.' To complete the click I on

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 07 ian 11, 16:23:16, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Sex, 07 Jan 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >If you consider an open wireless to be more dangerous, what additional > >protective measures do you suggest? > > Enable encryption of the wireless traffic (but not WEP, which is too weak). I

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 07 ian 11, 09:58:58, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: > > And yes, I do most of my major car repairs, no I'm not a mechanic. I > can cook, clean, and sew, and I'm not a woman. I constantly study > survival techniques and look to become proficient at procuring my own > food. Unfortunat

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Neil Youngman wrote: On Friday 07 Jan 2011 17:07:30 Bob Proulx wrote: Neil Youngman wrote: It can take several seconds to pop up a menu and, in the worst case, swapping from one window to another can take minutes, even if the other window is a simple xterm. I have also observed windows being re

Re: EXT4 File system viewer for Windows 7 pro 64 bit

2011-01-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 07 ian 11, 10:50:33, John W Foster wrote: > I have to use Windows 7 Pro 64 bit for some work I do. i want to know if > anyone knows of a viewer or file manager that I can install in Windows 7 > 64bit that will allow me to peruse or copy to & from a Debian EXT4 file > system. I have both on t

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 07 ian 11, 16:12:27, Neil Youngman wrote: > Since I "upgraded" to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to the > point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to respond to > anything else. > > It can take several seconds to pop up a menu and, in the worst case, swa

Re: USB Wireless Adapter

2011-01-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 06 ian 11, 18:59:59, Doug wrote: > You may be expecting too much of this (discontinued) device: your cellphone > can transmit and receive for miles; this 802.11 device can only be > expected to > work for 30 feet or so. Anything over that is gravy. The OP probably meant the wireless devi

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Neil Youngman
On Friday 07 Jan 2011 17:07:30 Bob Proulx wrote: > Neil Youngman wrote: > > It can take several seconds to pop up a menu and, in the worst case, > > swapping from one window to another can take minutes, even if the > > other window is a simple xterm. I have also observed windows being > > redrawn s

Re: SSL Cert

2011-01-07 Thread Slobodan Aleksić
Look at this one: www.startssl.com On 01/07/2011 07:14 PM, Informatik.hu wrote: Hi! Do you know a cheap, safe and well known trusted ssl certificate provider? I would like to use it with lighttpd, postfix and dovecot. thx! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Sex, 07 Jan 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: If you consider an open wireless to be more dangerous, what additional protective measures do you suggest? Enable encryption of the wireless traffic (but not WEP, which is too weak). SSL is always nice, but there isn't much you can do if the remote si

Re: repos for squeeze as a base install.

2011-01-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 07 ian 11, 15:42:49, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Greg: > > > Are there any packages uploaded to it yet ? > > Well. I do not know how to check it. - If You know, show me how - and > I will answer You. :) Add the repository to your sources.list, update and then u

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Neil Youngman
On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:53:05 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Neil Youngman: > > Since I "upgraded" to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to > > the point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to > > respond to anything else. > > What's in the syslog? Does 'top' report what the

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 06 ian 11, 09:12:28, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: [snip] If you consider an open wireless to be more dangerous, what additional protective measures do you suggest? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d

Re: EXT4 File system viewer for Windows 7 pro 64 bit

2011-01-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:50 PM, John W Foster wrote: > I have to use Windows 7 Pro 64 bit for some work I do. i want to know if > anyone knows of a viewer or file manager that I can install in Windows 7 > 64bit that will allow me to peruse or copy to & from a Debian EXT4 file > system. I have both

SSL Cert

2011-01-07 Thread Informatik.hu
Hi! Do you know a cheap, safe and well known trusted ssl certificate provider? I would like to use it with lighttpd, postfix and dovecot. thx! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

EXT4 File system viewer for Windows 7 pro 64 bit

2011-01-07 Thread John W Foster
I have to use Windows 7 Pro 64 bit for some work I do. i want to know if anyone knows of a viewer or file manager that I can install in Windows 7 64bit that will allow me to peruse or copy to & from a Debian EXT4 file system. I have both on the same machine but ofcourse only run one at a time, & wh

Re: X Keyboard layout trouble

2011-01-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:15:28PM EST, Robert Latest wrote: [..] > What now? I'm stumped. Works here out of the box on Debian stable. Since I do not run dwm, I did the following: $ /bin/su - # apt-get install dwm # adduser dwm # password .. enter .. enter # cd /home/dw

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Neil Youngman
On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:45:41 you wrote: > Neil Youngman wrote: > > Since I "upgraded" to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to > > the point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to > > respond to anything else. > > What upgrade did you do? From Sid to Squeeze or from

Re: Sun Java upgrade to 1.6.0_23 ?

2011-01-07 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 12:57 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:04:40 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > > 1.6.0_23 is available on Sun's site, but I don't believe the upgrade is > > simple from what I've read. Is there a way to do this directly w/o > > waiting for the next packaging

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Neil Youngman wrote: > It can take several seconds to pop up a menu and, in the worst case, > swapping from one window to another can take minutes, even if the > other window is a simple xterm. I have also observed windows being > redrawn so slowly that you can can see the rendering creeping slowly

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Neil Youngman: > > Since I "upgraded" to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to the > point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to respond to > anything else. What's in the syslog? Does 'top' report what the system is doing? > It can take several seconds to pop up

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Neil Youngman wrote: Since I "upgraded" to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to the point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to respond to anything else. What upgrade did you do? From Sid to Squeeze or from Squeeze to Sid? Was that a dist-upgrade? Hugo --

Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-07 Thread Neil Youngman
Since I "upgraded" to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to the point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to respond to anything else. It can take several seconds to pop up a menu and, in the worst case, swapping from one window to another can take minutes, even if

Re: o/t ipod

2011-01-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 04:27:16PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 27. 12. 2010 18:43:06 je Camaleón napisal(a): > > > > >I still fail to see what people find exciting in Apple devices. > >Yes, they > >look nice but they're also even more closed than any MS product >:-) > > > > It must be their pri

WPA2-WLAN on Laptop with PCMCIA card and wpa_supplicant

2011-01-07 Thread Clemens Kienzler
Trying to get online wirelessly I encountered problems connecting by means of wpa_supplicant. I have an IBM Thinkpad R32 running Debian Lenny without a desktop manager. For the WLAN connection I have a PCMCIA WLAN card from 3com. WLAN worked with this card and this laptop both under Windows and u

Re: Radeon 8500, kdetv, and xawtv broken - no video overlay device

2011-01-07 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:58:47 -0500, Robert Braddock wrote: >> You can try with another programs to view the TV, like Videolan, Me-TV >> or even Kaffeine :-? > > I don't know how to make anything else talk to the Xvideo overlay > device. The only mentions I've found were things NOT using it, or o

Re: X Keyboard layout trouble

2011-01-07 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:15:28 +0100, Robert Latest wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Run "xev" and type the combo of one of the characters you are not >> getting, like "[" to see what you get instead. > > Interesting: In xev, I seem to get exactly what I want -- see be

Re: Sun Java upgrade to 1.6.0_23 ?

2011-01-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:04:40 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I'm working with Jmol (www.jmol.org) under Debian Sid for a course I'm > teaching in a few weeks, but am running into a standing issue with the > current build of Sun Java found in Sid (RMB menus don't work properly). > > 1.6.0_23 is av

Re: rendering foreign characters in apache?

2011-01-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:51:58 -0500, Zachary Uram wrote: > Running apache2 on Debian testing. What do I need to install/configure > to get Chinese or Japanese text to render in apache? I cut/pasted some > text from a RTF document and when I load the document via > http://server/document.html it is

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-07 Thread godo
The client who wouldn't back up because she didn't want to spend any money, found herself faced with a dead motherboard. She expected me to have a new computer up and running with all her data on it within a few hours. (Note that diagnosis was also to be included in the short timespan, as was

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-07 Thread teddieeb
An operating system should have reliable backup policies built-in; for example, it should backup the entire /home subtree to rewritable DVDs, or a network share, on a weekly basis. When installing the system, the user should be asked where to and how often the backups should be made, just

Re: rendering foreign characters in apache?

2011-01-07 Thread Juha Tuuna
On 7.1.2011 10:51, Zachary Uram wrote: > Running apache2 on Debian testing. What do I need to install/configure > to get Chinese or Japanese text to render in apache? > I cut/pasted some text from a RTF document and when I load the > document via http://server/document.html it is a bunch of gibberi

Re: rendering foreign characters in apache?

2011-01-07 Thread Doug
On 01/07/2011 03:51 AM, Zachary Uram wrote: Running apache2 on Debian testing. What do I need to install/configure to get Chinese or Japanese text to render in apache? I cut/pasted some text from a RTF document and when I load the document via http://server/document.html it is a bunch of gibberis

Sun Java upgrade to 1.6.0_23 ?

2011-01-07 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm working with Jmol (www.jmol.org) under Debian Sid for a course I'm teaching in a few weeks, but am running into a standing issue with the current build of Sun Java found in Sid (RMB menus don't work properly). 1.6.0_23 is available on Sun's site, but I don't believe the upgrade is simple fro

rendering foreign characters in apache?

2011-01-07 Thread Zachary Uram
Running apache2 on Debian testing. What do I need to install/configure to get Chinese or Japanese text to render in apache? I cut/pasted some text from a RTF document and when I load the document via http://server/document.html it is a bunch of gibberish and the foreign characters (in this case Jap

Re: Avoiding inconsistencies when using reprepro update

2011-01-07 Thread Malte Forkel
Am 07.01.2011 04:15, schrieb Simon Hollenbach: > Another thought - Followup on my own last message in thread: Does the > same happen when trying to get your local repo from a late snapshot? > Snapshot.debian.org someone just mentioned it. These are not changing > and I would suggest u can ignore th

Re: repos for squeeze as a base install.

2011-01-07 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Greg: > Are there any packages uploaded to it yet ? Well. I do not know how to check it. - If You know, show me how - and I will answer You. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta