Re: networking

2011-01-13 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:04 AM, shawn wilson wrote: >> >> allow-hotplug eth0 >> iface eth0 inet dhcp >> allow hotplug eth1 >> iface eth1 inet dhcp > > How about with "allow-hotplug eth1" rather than "allow hotplug eth1"? > hummm, maybe that's why

Re: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 13. 01. 2011 23:12:43 je ghe napisal(a): On 1/13/11 2:45 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Jo, 13 ian 11, 14:38:44, Stephen Powell wrote: The bottom line: NEVER respond to an e-mail from ANYBODY which solicits your userid and password, no matter how legitimate the e-mail seems to be. I

Re: networking

2011-01-13 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:04 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > allow hotplug eth1 > iface eth1 inet dhcp How about with "allow-hotplug eth1" rather than "allow hotplug eth1"? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: networking

2011-01-13 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 01/14/2011 12:34 PM, shawn wilson wrote: # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp allow hotplug eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp replace 'allow hotplug' with 'auto' auto eth0 auto eth1 Mihira. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

networking

2011-01-13 Thread shawn wilson
so, i've got some debian boxes in a virtualbox environment. most work fine, but one is annoying me. after i boot it, the first interface comes up fine, but not the second. if i run '/etc/init.d/networking restart' they both go down. here is my ifconfig and interfaces file (which both look pretty n

Re: Install squeeze in DVD from usb

2011-01-13 Thread Josep M. Gasso
Hello. Can you give more info about how partition the usb drive for install Debian via the dvd .iso image from usb drive? Thanks Josep El jue, 13-01-2011 a las 14:17 -0800, Mark escribió: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Josep M. Gasso > wrote: > Hello. > > With unet

Re: Install squeeze in DVD from usb

2011-01-13 Thread Josep M. Gasso
Hello. Thanks, wll test now, I tested few months ago this. But with my ASUS motherboard was running ok, with my Gigabyte motherboard was unable to boot from the same usb. Josep El jue, 13-01-2011 a las 23:02 +, Andrew M.A. Cater escribió: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 02:17:19PM -0800, Mark wrot

Re: How to make an upgraded system clean by automatically removing abandoned config files?

2011-01-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Drew Engelbrecht wrote: > I've noticed some abandoned configuration files have been left lying around > my harddrive, which by their existence have a (sometimes negative) effect on > my upgraded system. They were installed by packages in lenny, but would not > be installed in a fresh installation o

Re: Re: How to make an upgraded system clean by automatically removing abandoned config files?

2011-01-13 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
> Perhaps 'aptitude search ~c' will fill your needs. It will search for > unused configuration files. Ok, I tried that, but that command lists deleted packages that left config files behind; I'm looking for a way to delete abandoned config files that belonged to packages that have been upgraded.

Re: How to make an upgraded system clean by automatically removing abandoned config files?

2011-01-13 Thread Slicky Johnson
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:10:07 -0500 Drew Engelbrecht wrote: > I've noticed some abandoned configuration files have been left lying > around my harddrive, which by their existence have a (sometimes > negative) effect on my upgraded system. They were installed by > packages in lenny, but would not b

How to make an upgraded system clean by automatically removing abandoned config files?

2011-01-13 Thread Drew Engelbrecht
I've noticed some abandoned configuration files have been left lying around my harddrive, which by their existence have a (sometimes negative) effect on my upgraded system. They were installed by packages in lenny, but would not be installed in a fresh installation of squeeze. Despite unmodified co

Re: USB key requirement.

2011-01-13 Thread Dan Serban
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:46:41 -0800 (PST) Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > > --- On Tue, 1/11/11, Dan Serban wrote: > > > > > > I figured that after the root partition is mounted (nfs), I > > would have > > an init.d script that would work its magic.. if it's there, > > allow the > > continuation o

Re: piping find to zip -- with spaces in path

2011-01-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Dan B. wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >So as you can see whitespace isn't safe to use in URLs. This is > >basically the same as for Unix filenames. > > They're not quite the same: Not quite the same is basically the same here. :-) The question of the topic was: ... what about urls? They come

Re: Maximum size of temporary files

2011-01-13 Thread shawn wilson
fwiw Since this isn't a browser specific forum, why are you trying to save videos with firefox (when browsers are not really meant to do that) and not using something like vlc? Last time I checked (did this) there were tons of forum posts and the like on doing this with vlc. I've used vlc to save e

Re: piping find to zip -- with spaces in path

2011-01-13 Thread Dan B.
Bob Proulx wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: ... So as you can see whitespace isn't safe to use in URLs. This is basically the same as for Unix filenames. They're not quite the same: In URIs, it's not that whitespace "isn't safe to use"; it's simply that whitespace is not allowed, period. (Yes, en

Re: Install squeeze in DVD from usb

2011-01-13 Thread Mark
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater < amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > As of _today_ , the .iso can simply be dd'ed to a USB stick [Debian Squeeze > rc1 of the installer CD and others] > It will work and boot from there - some excellent work by Steve Macintyre > and others

Re: Install squeeze in DVD from usb

2011-01-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 02:17:19PM -0800, Mark wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Josep M. Gasso > wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > With unetbootin, for example can be installed a netinst cd in a usb, no > > problem, I would like know if in Squeeze will be possible install a full > > DVD in a 8

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:23:11AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been > used or formatted. I configured a new array using Disk Utility from a > live Ubuntu CD. That's whe

Re: Install squeeze in DVD from usb

2011-01-13 Thread Mark
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Josep M. Gasso wrote: > Hello. > > With unetbootin, for example can be installed a netinst cd in a usb, no > problem, I would like know if in Squeeze will be possible install a full > DVD in a 8GB usb pen drive? Will be a nice option if possible. > Hi, do you mean

Re: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread ghe
On 1/13/11 2:45 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Jo, 13 ian 11, 14:38:44, Stephen Powell wrote: The bottom line: NEVER respond to an e-mail from ANYBODY which solicits your userid and password, no matter how legitimate the e-mail seems to be. I didn't -- that's why I asked here. And it's also

Re: Keyboard freezing/repeating endlessly

2011-01-13 Thread Joe Riel
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:23:09 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Joe Riel wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:41:30 -0800 > > Joe Riel wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:17:32 + (UTC) > >> Camaleón wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:21:03 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > >>> > On Thu, 13 J

Install squeeze in DVD from usb

2011-01-13 Thread Josep M. Gasso
Hello. With unetbootin, for example can be installed a netinst cd in a usb, no problem, I would like know if in Squeeze will be possible install a full DVD in a 8GB usb pen drive? Will be a nice option if possible. Josep -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Debug altwin:meta_win under Squeeze

2011-01-13 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA
Hello! I just came back from a long exile at uncle Gates’ shadowlands. One thing I always used until one year and a half ago did not work in a Squeeze installation, from before the release candidate these days. I always used XkbOptions altwin:meta_win, so I could have the logo (Wind

Re: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 13 ian 11, 14:38:44, Stephen Powell wrote: > > The bottom line: NEVER respond to an e-mail from ANYBODY which solicits > your userid and password, no matter how legitimate the e-mail seems to be. And it's also a good idea to not reply to them on debian-user (makes cleaning the archives im

Re: mail to debian-user bounces

2011-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 13 ian 11, 12:09:58, Camaleón wrote: > > OTOH, I would contact the Debian mailing list admin > (listmaster[at]lists.debian.org) so he/she can check the internal mailing ^^ This munging is not really needed. First, the e-mail is present in all messages and second, Debian,

Re: Maximum size of temporary files

2011-01-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rodolfo Medina: > Jochen Schulz writes: >> >> What about about:config, media.cache_size? Just a guess. > > > It's not a matter of Cache size, that I already set to a very large value: > it's > a problem of single files size. I know, that's why I didn't suggest fiddling with browser,cache.disk

Re: Keyboard freezing/repeating endlessly

2011-01-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joe Riel wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:41:30 -0800 Joe Riel wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:17:32 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:21:03 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:44:38 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: OTOH, are you sure there is no information/warning abou

Re: Keyboard freezing/repeating endlessly

2011-01-13 Thread Joe Riel
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:00:01 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Joe Riel wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:17:32 + (UTC) > > Camaleón wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:21:03 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:44:38 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > OTOH, are you sure

Re: Keyboard freezing/repeating endlessly

2011-01-13 Thread Joe Riel
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:41:30 -0800 Joe Riel wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:17:32 + (UTC) > Camaleón wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:21:03 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:44:38 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > > > >> OTOH, are you sure there is no information/wa

Re: Keyboard freezing/repeating endlessly

2011-01-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joe Riel wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:17:32 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:21:03 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:44:38 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: OTOH, are you sure there is no information/warning about the lock in "/ var/log/Xorg.0.log"? I'm not sure .

Re: Maximum size of temporary files

2011-01-13 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Jochen Schulz writes: > Rodolfo Medina: >> >> >> All right, I didn't want to be prolix. This happens when I try to catch a >> streaming video from internet. On my system, while the video is running >> from the web, it is stored in the directory >> ~/.mozilla/firefox//Cache. After it's all st

Re: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread Jonathan SIegle
Blake Hodder said the following on 1/13/11 1:59 PM: I did as well but was not sure which it was. On 11-01-13 02:48 PM, ghe wrote: I got 3 of these this morning. Anybody else? Is it real? Or spam? -snip- These are called phish[1]. Looks like ucla.edu has a compromised account. [1] http://en

Re: Maximum size of temporary files

2011-01-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rodolfo Medina: > > > All right, I didn't want to be prolix. This happens when I try to catch a > streaming video from internet. On my system, while the video is running from > the web, it is stored in the directory ~/.mozilla/firefox//Cache. > After it's all stored, I collect it from there and

eSATA problems with ThermalTake BlacX Duet

2011-01-13 Thread Gregory Seidman
I have a BlacX Duet with two 1.5TB drives in it. When I connect it via USB, both drives show up as SCSI disks and all is well. I'd really like SMART support, though, so I want to connect it via eSATA instead. When I do, though, I get a series of SATA errors to the console about not being able to es

Re: Keyboard freezing/repeating endlessly

2011-01-13 Thread Joe Riel
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:17:32 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:21:03 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:44:38 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > >> OTOH, are you sure there is no information/warning about the lock > >> in "/ var/log/Xorg.0.log"? > > > > I'm not

Re: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:22:01 -0500 (EST), green wrote: > ghe wrote at 2011-01-13 11:48 -0700: >> I got 3 of these this morning. Anybody else? Is it real? Or spam? >> >> From: "Account Verification For This Year" > > Unless you actually have a ucla.edu account, this should be evidence enough >

RE: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread Simon Hollenbach
- Original message - > Make sure to include your username and  passwords for your bank accounts > when you respond.  Todd has earned a point. This is the oldest scam I can think of, afterwards they got more inventive and gave away mean incentives such as wooden horses. Who do you think

Re: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:59:21 -0400, Blake Hodder wrote: > On 11-01-13 02:48 PM, ghe wrote: >> I got 3 of these this morning. Anybody else? Is it real? Or spam? > I did as well but was not sure which it was. (...) Phishing/spam, for sure... look: *** To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@liszt.debian

Re: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread green
ghe wrote at 2011-01-13 11:48 -0700: > I got 3 of these this morning. Anybody else? Is it real? Or spam? > > > From: "Account Verification For This Year" Unless you actually have a ucla.edu account, this should be evidence enough of a phishing attempt. signature.asc Description: Digital signa

Re: Keyboard freezing/repeating endlessly

2011-01-13 Thread Joe Riel
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:27:40 -0800 Joe Riel wrote: > > Are you sure the keyboard is good? > > No, but it would be quite the coincidence that the > keyboard works fine for a year and fails within > five minutes of installing a new O/S. However, > to remove that possibility, I just now replaced >

Re: Maximum size of temporary files

2011-01-13 Thread Rodolfo Medina
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: > In <878vyoepsy@gmail.com>, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>It seems that the maximum size of internet temporary files on my Debian >>Lenny system is 5.5MB. How can I enlarge it at my pleasure? > > Which browser? What have you tried? What tools / techniques are yo

RE: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread Todd Gricol
Make sure to include your username and passwords for your bank accounts when you respond. From: ghe [g...@slsware.com] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 1:48 PM To: debian-users Subject: maintenance I got 3 of these this morning. Anybody else? Is it real?

Re: Keyboard freezing/repeating endlessly

2011-01-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:21:03 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:44:38 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: >> OTOH, are you sure there is no information/warning about the lock in "/ >> var/log/Xorg.0.log"? > > I'm not sure . Nothing jumped out at me, but I'm clueless. There is > this: > >

Re: ktorrent in sid

2011-01-13 Thread godo
OK, thank you very much, so I'll need to find out why I can not download anything, nor seed anything Any ideas? regards First thing I will check with some other proxies. Do you need log in (username, password) to your proxy? Can you try without proxy? Try to download Fedora Linux with KTo

Re: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread Blake Hodder
I did as well but was not sure which it was. On 11-01-13 02:48 PM, ghe wrote: I got 3 of these this morning. Anybody else? Is it real? Or spam? Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on

maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread ghe
I got 3 of these this morning. Anybody else? Is it real? Or spam? Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on server.slsware.dmz X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-site-wide-scan: Score == -100.4 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-100.4 required=6.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FH_DATE_PAST

Re: ktorrent in sid

2011-01-13 Thread deloptes
godo wrote: > > >> thanks >> I have issues with ktorrent in sid (kde4.5). so can one confirm that it >> is working with proxies? >> >> regards >> >> > Hi, > I have Sid box and Ktorrent 4.0.2 (KDE Development platform 4.4.5 -KDE > 4.4.5) and work with proxies. > OK, thank you very much, so I'll

Re: Keyboard freezing/repeating endlessly

2011-01-13 Thread Joe Riel
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:44:38 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > I'm wondering why X is using the wrong keyboard model. Maybe I > > entered the wrong model during the installation. What sets the > > default value (there is no xorg.conf file)? > > Keyboard setup is done in "/etc/default/keyboard" f

Re: Maximum size of temporary files

2011-01-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <878vyoepsy@gmail.com>, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >It seems that the maximum size of internet temporary files on my Debian >Lenny system is 5.5MB. How can I enlarge it at my pleasure? Which browser? What have you tried? What tools / techniques are you using to collect the data for your asse

Re: Keyboard freezing/repeating endlessly

2011-01-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:01:16 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > First post to Debian-Users; I hope this isn't inappropriate. We only allow one serious (non-OT) post per user and day. ... (just kidding :-) ) (...) > $ setxkbmap -model pc104 > > That didn't improve anything (I still get lockups) nor did

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-13 Thread Carl Johnson
Stan Hoeppner writes: > > Depending on the size of the photos one is converting, if they're relatively > small like my 8.3MP 1.8MB jpegs, I'd think something like a dual core Phenom > II > X2 w/ 6MB L3 cache and 21.4 GB/s memory b/w would likely continue to scale > with > reduced overall script

Re: Keyboard freezing/repeating endlessly

2011-01-13 Thread Joe Riel
> Are you sure the keyboard is good? No, but it would be quite the coincidence that the keyboard works fine for a year and fails within five minutes of installing a new O/S. However, to remove that possibility, I just now replaced it with another PS/2 keyboard. I'll respond when this locks up (t

Re: hp dj 2050

2011-01-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:41:00 +0100, steef wrote: > Gilbert Sullivan schreef: (...) >> Note that it is _important_ to delete any instance of the new printer / >> fax from the CUPS localhost:631 location before attempting to run >> hp-setup. After hp-setup has been run you should see both the prin

Re: Finding kernel modication that caused the boot failure using git-bisect?

2011-01-13 Thread Tech Geek
Never mind. Found it in one of the Linus' post on LKML.

Re: Keyboard freezing/repeating endlessly

2011-01-13 Thread Joe Riel
A few details I omitted. Once the freeze occurs, the only way I've found to release it is to restart the machine. Restarting gdm3 (via a remote computer) does not help, it brings up the login screen, but the keyboard is not operational. The problem also occurs in a virtual terminal (though I've

Re: Keyboard freezing/repeating endlessly

2011-01-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joe Riel wrote: First post to Debian-Users; I hope this isn't inappropriate. In December I upgraded Ubuntu 9.04 to 10.04. The keyboard and mouse would then freeze after about five minutes of use. At that point I installed Debian 6 (another machine uses Debian, but this computer had come with U

Re: convert "\u" markup codes for xemacs

2011-01-13 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Camaleón [110113 15:21]: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:53:53 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > (...) > > > Is there a facility within Emacs to do the conversion? or perhaps a > > stand-alone utility? > > > > Is there a tutorial which explains all this? > > Maybe this helps: > > Q1.8.8: Does X

Keyboard freezing/repeating endlessly

2011-01-13 Thread Joe Riel
First post to Debian-Users; I hope this isn't inappropriate. In December I upgraded Ubuntu 9.04 to 10.04. The keyboard and mouse would then freeze after about five minutes of use. At that point I installed Debian 6 (another machine uses Debian, but this computer had come with Ubuntu 9.04 install

Re: hp dj 2050

2011-01-13 Thread steef
Gilbert Sullivan schreef: On 01/13/2011 09:32 AM, Camaleón wrote: Here is the problem. You have used CUPS to setup the printer instead using the hplip utility. Try to setup the printer using the hplip wizard, if the printer needs to get any additional plugin, firmware or filter they should be

Re: OT: Sort Of> Re: USB stick Security

2011-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:11:04AM -0600, John W Foster wrote: > I recently lost a USB stick. It didn't have any thing of a security > concern on it but got me to thinking. Does anyone know of an application > that will; encrypt the drive completely; Linux kernel :-) http://wiki.debian.org/

Maximum size of temporary files

2011-01-13 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all. It seems that the maximum size of internet temporary files on my Debian Lenny system is 5.5MB. How can I enlarge it at my pleasure? Thanks for any help Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: Kernel bug in Squeeze

2011-01-13 Thread Neil Youngman
On Thursday 13 Jan 2011 09:35:04 Russell Gadd wrote: > Also how/where could I report this bug? For the how, I suggest you look at the reportbug man page. Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: hp dj 2050

2011-01-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 01/13/2011 09:32 AM, Camaleón wrote: Here is the problem. You have used CUPS to setup the printer instead using the hplip utility. Try to setup the printer using the hplip wizard, if the printer needs to get any additional plugin, firmware or filter they should be automatically fetched when us

Re: OT: Sort Of> Re: USB stick Security

2011-01-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:43:01 -0500, Jimmy Wu wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:11, John W Foster wrote: >> I recently lost a USB stick. It didn't have any thing of a security >> concern on it but got me to thinking. Does anyone know of an >> application that will; encrypt the drive completely; s

Re: OT: Sort Of> Re: USB stick Security

2011-01-13 Thread Jimmy Wu
https://www.ironkey.com/ They claim it works on linux as well. Cheers, JW On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:11, John W Foster wrote: > I recently lost a USB stick. It didn't have any thing of a security > concern on it but got me to thinking. Does anyone know of an application > that will; encrypt the

OT: Sort Of> Re: USB stick Security

2011-01-13 Thread John W Foster
I recently lost a USB stick. It didn't have any thing of a security concern on it but got me to thinking. Does anyone know of an application that will; encrypt the drive completely; start at boot time; ask for a secure log in & if after say 2 or 3 tries; with appropriate warnings of impending doom;

Re: convert "\u" markup codes for xemacs

2011-01-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:53:53 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: (...) > Is there a facility within Emacs to do the conversion? or perhaps a > stand-alone utility? > > Is there a tutorial which explains all this? Maybe this helps: Q1.8.8: Does XEmacs support Unicode? http://www.xemacs.org/Documen

Re: hp dj 2050

2011-01-13 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On the 13/01/2011 15:07, steef wrote: Answering in-line >> Camaleón schreef: >> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:59:02 +0100, steef wrote: >> >> >>> Klistvud schreef: >>> >> > a friend of mine with a standard gnome-desktop-lenny-net-installation > does not get his hp deskjet 2050 j510 w

Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-13 Thread Jack Schneider
I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been used or formatted. I configured a new array using Disk Utility from a live Ubuntu CD. That's where I screwed up... The end result was the names of the arrays were changed

Re: hp dj 2050

2011-01-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:07:47 +0100, steef wrote: > Camaleón schreef: >>> yes, hplip is installed. >>> >> Which version? >> >> Your printer seems to need hplip "3.10.6" (excerpt from hplip log¹): (...) > well: here the output of hp-check -r: > >> jaap@debian:~$ hp-check -r >> >> >> HP Lin

Re: hp dj 2050

2011-01-13 Thread steef
Camaleón schreef: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:59:02 +0100, steef wrote: Klistvud schreef: a friend of mine with a standard gnome-desktop-lenny-net-installation does not get his hp deskjet 2050 j510 working. lenny tells him: 'no cups printing filter'. allthough tasksel installed the pr

Re: Please ignore this test.

2011-01-13 Thread Steve Kleene
On 2011-01-12 23:13:13 GMT, Simon Hollenbach googlemail.com> wrote: > Debian Mailing lists are not there to test if you can post to them, that's > highly unwanted, as stated on debian.org . You have my apologies. Posts from my organization are being bounced recently by debian-user. I induced m

Re: hp dj 2050

2011-01-13 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On the 13/01/2011 13:43, steef wrote: > hi list, > > a friend of mine with a standard gnome-desktop-lenny-net-installation > does not get his hp deskjet 2050 j510 working. lenny tells him: 'no cups > printing filter'. allthough tasksel installed the printer software and i > (for him) installed at

Re: hp dj 2050

2011-01-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:59:02 +0100, steef wrote: > Klistvud schreef: >>> a friend of mine with a standard gnome-desktop-lenny-net-installation >>> does not get his hp deskjet 2050 j510 working. lenny tells him: 'no >>> cups printing filter'. allthough tasksel installed the printer >>> software an

Re: hp dj 2050

2011-01-13 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
Can you provide log output? > >> yes, hplip is installed. > > > -- > 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/4d2ef716.3050...@home.nl > >

Re: mail to debian-user bounces

2011-01-13 Thread Steve Kleene
> (I am sending this message on behalf of Steve who seems to have some > sort of problem for getting his posts reach the list) Thank you very much, Camaleón. > I would contact the Debian mailing list admin I just did that. > In the meantime, you can try to use another e-mail account (aka: anoth

Re: hp dj 2050

2011-01-13 Thread steef
Klistvud schreef: Dne, 13. 01. 2011 13:43:26 je steef napisal(a): hi list, a friend of mine with a standard gnome-desktop-lenny-net-installation does not get his hp deskjet 2050 j510 working. lenny tells him: 'no cups printing filter'. allthough tasksel installed the printer software and i (

Re: hp dj 2050

2011-01-13 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 13. 01. 2011 13:43:26 je steef napisal(a): hi list, a friend of mine with a standard gnome-desktop-lenny-net-installation does not get his hp deskjet 2050 j510 working. lenny tells him: 'no cups printing filter'. allthough tasksel installed the printer software and i (for him) install

Re: Kernel bug in Squeeze

2011-01-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:35:04 +, Russell Gadd wrote: > I have had 2 freezes recently with a kernel bug reported on the screen. > One was at the end of shutdown (on a reboot) and the other just now on > bootup (not the same reboot). I had a look in syslog for some info but I > suspect that the o

hp dj 2050

2011-01-13 Thread steef
hi list, a friend of mine with a standard gnome-desktop-lenny-net-installation does not get his hp deskjet 2050 j510 working. lenny tells him: 'no cups printing filter'. allthough tasksel installed the printer software and i (for him) installed at localhost:631 a seemingly appropriate printer

Re: linux on windows

2011-01-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:22:57 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Thanks to all > > the question is : is there a possibility to change the password, from > windows or via a CD live > thanks again Shawn already told you how. The answser is there awaiting for you to read ;-) Greetings, -- Cam

Re: mail to debian-user bounces

2011-01-13 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-01-12 a las 16:03 -0500, Steve Kleene escribió: (I am sending this message on behalf of Steve who seems to have some sort of problem for getting his posts reach the list) > I am running Lenny, and when I attempt to post a question by e-mailing > debian-user@lists.debian.org, the post n

Re: Re: linux on windows

2011-01-13 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Thanks to all the question is : is there a possibility to change the password, from windows or via a CD live thanks again

Kernel bug in Squeeze

2011-01-13 Thread Russell Gadd
I have had 2 freezes recently with a kernel bug reported on the screen. One was at the end of shutdown (on a reboot) and the other just now on bootup (not the same reboot). I had a look in syslog for some info but I suspect that the output wasn't able to be added due to the system halting. I don't

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Bob Proulx put forth on 1/12/2011 2:48 PM: > That makes a lot of sense to me. And also when cpu time divides by > 1/N where N is the number of processes then if you have more convert > processes running then effectively that task will get more total time > than will the other tasks. A little bit

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-13 Thread Adrian Levi
On 10 January 2011 05:21, Hal Vaughan wrote: >Is there a way to copy an image of just the files from one drive to another?   >For example, an intelligent DD that won't copy unused sectors, or will create >an archive of just the files? Is there a reason why dump and restore won't fill the bill?

Re: linux on windows

2011-01-13 Thread Juha Tuuna
On 13.1.2011 9:07, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I have 2 pbs: > > I have installed for a friend of me, ubuntu on windows, (ubuntu has this > option). I lost the password, and tried to fix it, so I tried booting from CD, > to fix the problem as usual, (I mean mount HD, and chroot ). Th

Re: linux on windows

2011-01-13 Thread shawn wilson
FYI, first link when I Google 'wink reset password' : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1041232

Re: linux on windows

2011-01-13 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:07:06 +0100 abdelkader belahcene dijo: >I have installed for a friend of me, ubuntu on windows, (ubuntu has >this option). I lost the password, and tried to fix it, so I tried >booting from CD, to fix the problem as usual, (I mean mount HD, and >chroot ). There is no