Re: Disc encryptian.

2011-02-20 Thread Erwan David
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 08:41:22AM CET, Ron Johnson said: > On 02/21/2011 01:00 AM, Heddle Weaver wrote: > >On 21 February 2011 15:32, Erwan David wrote: > > > >>On 21/02/11 05:05, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>>On 02/20/2011 09:46 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote: > Greetings all, > > looking at t

Re: Disc encryptian.

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/21/2011 01:00 AM, Heddle Weaver wrote: On 21 February 2011 15:32, Erwan David wrote: On 21/02/11 05:05, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/2011 09:46 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote: Greetings all, looking at the collective knowledge factor, what's the best disc encryption package? Do you want to

Re: Disc encryptian.

2011-02-20 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 21 February 2011 15:32, Erwan David wrote: > On 21/02/11 05:05, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/20/2011 09:46 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote: > >> Greetings all, > >> > >> looking at the collective knowledge factor, what's the best disc > >> encryption package? > > > > Do you want to encrypt *everything

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/21/2011 12:17 AM, Peter Tynan wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:54:27 -0600 From: Ron Johnson To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use) Resent-Date: Mon, 21 F

Re: Apache rewrite module From Static to Dynamic

2011-02-20 Thread David Christensen
On 02/20/2011 10:22 PM, David Christensen wrote: 2. The rewrite log is empty and owned by root: $ ll apache-sandbox/log/rewrite.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 20 21:57 apache-sandbox/log/rewrite.log Here's part of the solution to #2 -- I needed to set RewriteLogLevel to something greater th

Apache rewrite module From Static to Dynamic

2011-02-20 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I have a Debian 6.0.0 (Squeeze) computer with the "apache" Debian package installed: $ cat /etc/debian_version 6.0 $ sudo apache2ctl -v Server version: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Server built: Jan 1 2011 21:57:31 I am trying to learn about the Apache rewrite module via "Apache H

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-20 Thread Peter Tynan
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:54:27 -0600 From: Ron Johnson To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use) Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:54:49 + (UTC) Resent-Fro

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-20 Thread Peter Tynan
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:54:27 -0600 From: Ron Johnson To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use) Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:54:49 + (UTC) Resent-Fro

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 11:01 PM, Peter Tynan wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:02:48 -0600 From: Ron Johnson To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use) Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED but not for urxvt

2011-02-20 Thread Paul Chany
Csanyi Pal writes: > Andrei Popescu writes: > >> On Jo, 17 feb 11, 09:16:16, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>> Yes, I use nvidia, and no I won't use nouveau. >> >> You could try it out just to confirm it makes your computer beep ;) > > I used nvidia driver and haven't beep, now I'm using nouveau drive

Re: Disc encryptian.

2011-02-20 Thread Erwan David
On 21/02/11 05:05, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/20/2011 09:46 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >> looking at the collective knowledge factor, what's the best disc >> encryption package? > > Do you want to encrypt *everything* of just a few folders? > >> What's everybody using? >> Two e

Re: nepomukuser

2011-02-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 06:47, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:47:20 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > >> On 02/20/2011 08:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >  in gnome menu, System-Preferences-System Settings-Advanced-Desktop >  search >>> I can't see that menu :-? >>> >>> >> gnome m

Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 20 February 2011 06:42:12 pm Heddle Weaver wrote: > > Come with a few things installed. > I remember a few years back, a furore over factory installed trojans on > Belkin routers. > Belkin apologised and all the noise went away, but I haven't forgotten in > the current atmosphere of ne

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-20 Thread Peter Tynan
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:02:48 -0600 From: Ron Johnson To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use) Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:03:05 + (UTC) Resent-From: de

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
John Hasler put forth on 2/20/2011 3:08 PM: > Elmer writes: >> 300 Mhz processor boot manager on 3.5-inch diskette so it can boot >> from diskette, CD or hard drive > > That'll work fine as long as it has enough RAM to install Debian. Not to mention disk space. Even though the OP asked on this l

Re: Disc encryptian.

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 09:46 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote: Greetings all, looking at the collective knowledge factor, what's the best disc encryption package? Do you want to encrypt *everything* of just a few folders? What's everybody using? Two examples of Xzibit this week and hash changes showing up in

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Elmer E. Dow put forth on 2/20/2011 2:02 PM: > Greetings: > > I'd like to set up a network with a firewall for my home computers for > security, control and convenience (file sharing), as well as to learn > about networking. We have the Internet entering via a Motorola DSL modem > and it currently

To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 09:42 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote: Got to get away from gmail. No list reply feature. Get away from the web interface. Install Icedove/Evolution/Mutt and use Google's IMAPs interface. -- "The normal condition of mankind is tyranny and misery." Milton Friedman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 08:23 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 20 feb 11, 03:20:52, Ron Johnson wrote: Then it should be named: Debian GNU/X/GNOME/KDE/Lots-of-other-stuff Linux. Well, I guess that depends very much on the definition of an OS. IMVHO a kernel (Linux of kFreeBSD in case of Debian) plu

Re: no sound in squeeze

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 08:01 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: ok, so I tried to play a media file attachment tonight, no sound. tried to play youtube in Iceweasel, no sound. Did my usual init.d/alsasound restart and got this: # /etc/init.d/alsasound restart Shutting down sound driver: ERROR: Module snd_hda_code

Disc encryptian.

2011-02-20 Thread Heddle Weaver
Greetings all, looking at the collective knowledge factor, what's the best disc encryption package? What's everybody using? Two examples of Xzibit this week and hash changes showing up in the logs. No damage, just nosy kids. Or something worse. Getting sick of it though. Regards, Weaver. -- Re

Re: no network connection with Wheezy

2011-02-20 Thread Steve Kleene
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:55:19 +, I wrote: > I installed Wheezy (testing) with a netinst CD, at which point it obviously > had a network connection. On booting, though, it does not. On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:45:39 +0200, Andrei Popescu replied: > Ok, nothing obviously wrong that I can spot. One

Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Heddle Weaver
Got to get away from gmail. No list reply feature. -- Forwarded message -- From: Heddle Weaver Date: 21 February 2011 13:41 Subject: Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use To: Greg Madden On 21 February 2011 12:26, Greg Madden wrote: > > > On Sunday 20 February

How do I install all complex fonts?

2011-02-20 Thread Hoang Le
Complex fonts such as Asian fonts are not installed by defaults. Is there any way to install all or most of them without picking individual font? Thank you

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 20 February 2011 03:03:35 pm Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2011 20 Feb 14:22 -0600, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > > Greetings: > > > > I'd like to set up a network with a firewall for my home computers > > for security, control and convenience (file sharing), as well as to > > learn about network

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 20 feb 11, 03:20:52, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Then it should be named: >Debian GNU/X/GNOME/KDE/Lots-of-other-stuff Linux. Well, I guess that depends very much on the definition of an OS. IMVHO a kernel (Linux of kFreeBSD in case of Debian) plus the GNU tools can already be called an OS

/USR/SBIN/CRON[20837]: (CRON) error (grandchild #20839 failed with exit status 1)

2011-02-20 Thread Robert S
I'm getting these in my syslog: Feb 21 06:05:01 debian /USR/SBIN/CRON[17713]: (CRON) error (grandchild #17716 failed with exit status 1) Feb 21 07:05:01 debian /USR/SBIN/CRON[17855]: (CRON) error (grandchild #17858 failed with exit status 1) Feb 21 08:05:01 debian /USR/SBIN/CRON[18084]: (CRON) err

Re: Two node storage failover with lvm and ISCSI

2011-02-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Denny Schierz put forth on 2/20/2011 11:56 AM: > hi, > > Am Freitag, den 18.02.2011, 20:37 +0800 schrieb Justin Jereza: > >> I'd consider running clvm + gfs2 instead. That way, both nodes can >> stay up and connected to the same filesystem at the same time. The >> only decision left would be whic

no sound in squeeze

2011-02-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
ok, so I tried to play a media file attachment tonight, no sound. tried to play youtube in Iceweasel, no sound. Did my usual init.d/alsasound restart and got this: # /etc/init.d/alsasound restart Shutting down sound driver: ERROR: Module snd_hda_codec_idt is in use ERROR: Module snd_hda_codec is

Re: GNOME root's logins (looking for feeback)

2011-02-20 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > Should we avoid users (or root) from using "rm" I read an article in the last two weeks where this was proposed... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: Debian Squezee upgrade and python-imaging problem

2011-02-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 17 feb 11, 14:39:17, Matija Jerković wrote: > Hi I have recently upgraded from lenny to squezee and I noticed some > problems during upgrade with some python files. Now I have same problem with > them and I need to resolve it so that I can install sane: > > dpkg --configure -a > Setting up

Re: GNOME root's logins (looking for feeback)

2011-02-20 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:31:12 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> >>> I wonder what is the point of forbidding root's GUI logins from GDM >>> greeter while this can be easily by-passed without editing any >

Re: no network connection with Wheezy

2011-02-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 17 feb 11, 16:04:19, Steve Kleene wrote: [snip configs] Ok, nothing obviously wrong that I can spot. One more thing to consider: make sure eth0 and eth1 are not reversed (the names, not the physical cards). You can compare MACs from ifconfig or just watch syslog while pluging/unpluging

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED

2011-02-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 19 feb 11, 11:09:06, Joe Riel wrote: > > An advantage for me of the noveau driver, besides restoring the > beep in an xterm, was that the console font (in a virtual terminal) > is much nicer. I had tried various configurations of the console > font with the nvidia driver, but it never loo

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 20 Feb 14:22 -0600, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > Greetings: > > I'd like to set up a network with a firewall for my home computers > for security, control and convenience (file sharing), as well as to > learn about networking. We have the Internet entering via a Motorola > DSL modem and it curr

Re: Cannot set preferred application

2011-02-20 Thread Russell Gadd
On 20/02/11 19:30, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:16:12 +, Russell Gadd wrote: (...) So I now try right clicking on the file and choose Open with "Other Application", choose "audacious" and tick the box which says "Remember this appliction for MP3 audio files". Ok so it opens this

Re: Setup xterm to use TrueType Fonts in .Xresources (was Xdefaults) - SOLVED

2011-02-20 Thread Csanyi Pal
Csanyi Pal writes: > Hi Chris, > > Chris Jones writes: > >> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:15:08AM EST, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to setup in .Xdefaults for xterm to use TrueType Fonts so >>> I don't must use every time the 'control' key and pointer button >>> three to set this up in the

squeeze installation: monitor problem?

2011-02-20 Thread Charlie
I have an i386 machine that ran etch and was upgraded to lenny. After a squeeze upgrade did not work, I decided to install from scratch, using a CD with netinst. The intallation seemed to go all right until the reboot. At that time, my monitor went completely dark after displaying a "video

Re: Setup xterm to use TrueType Fonts in .Xdefaults

2011-02-20 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi Chris, Chris Jones writes: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:15:08AM EST, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> I'm trying to setup in .Xdefaults for xterm to use TrueType Fonts so >> I don't must use every time the 'control' key and pointer button >> three to set this up in the VT Fonts menu. >> >> I want als

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Elmer writes: > 300 Mhz processor boot manager on 3.5-inch diskette so it can boot > from diskette, CD or hard drive That'll work fine as long as it has enough RAM to install Debian. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Adrian Levi
On 21 February 2011 06:02, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > Greetings: > 300 Mhz processor > boot manager on 3.5-inch diskette so it can boot from diskette, CD or hard > drive > ethernet jack on motherboard > 5 pci slots > 4 isa slots > (I have a pci nic and 2 isa nics on hand, plus there's that built-in

Re: xterm question

2011-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:58:51AM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:31:01AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 06:25:29PM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > > > Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before > > > > I call xterm from a hotkey l

Re: Change default font size in xterm

2011-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 01:45:27PM -0500, Edward C. Jones wrote: > I have just installed squeeze. > > I can change the font size in an xterm by a menu brought up by > control-right-click. Unfortunately, I have to do this each time an > xterm is created. How can I permanently change the default fon

Re: Setup xterm to use TrueType Fonts in .Xdefaults

2011-02-20 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:15:08AM EST, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to setup in .Xdefaults for xterm to use TrueType Fonts so I > don't must use every time the 'control' key and pointer button three to > set this up in the VT Fonts menu. > > I want also to setup the geometry for xter

selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Elmer E. Dow
Greetings: I'd like to set up a network with a firewall for my home computers for security, control and convenience (file sharing), as well as to learn about networking. We have the Internet entering via a Motorola DSL modem and it currently passes data through a NetGear wireless router. I'd l

Re: repos for dropbox and skype

2011-02-20 Thread Daniel Andersson
On 02/20/2011 06:14 PM, mike cutie and maia wrote: Hi, Is their a set of repos to install bidgin I have sid non-free already enabled When I do an Apt-get install skype And Apt-get install dropbox It says it can’t find them and I have done a search on google and the repos I found don’t work

Re: GNOME root's logins (looking for feeback)

2011-02-20 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:48:54AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/20/2011 09:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I wonder what is the point of forbidding root's GUI logins from GDM > >greeter while this can be easily by-passed without editing any > >configuration file? > > > > Behavioral

Re: Apt Crippled

2011-02-20 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 16 February 2011 22:56:40 David Baron wrote: > On Saturday 12 February 2011 22:54:16 David Baron wrote: > > On Saturday 12 February 2011 21:30:20 debian-user-digest- > > > > requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > > > For several days (after squeeze release), I have been getting the > > >

Re: Change default font size in xterm

2011-02-20 Thread Csanyi Pal
"Edward C. Jones" writes: > I can change the font size in an xterm by a menu brought up by > control-right-click. Unfortunately, I have to do this each time an > xterm is created. How can I permanently change the default font size > for all xterms? How can I change the window size (80x25 etc.)

Re: Cannot set preferred application

2011-02-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:16:12 +, Russell Gadd wrote: (...) > So I now try right clicking on the file and choose Open with "Other > Application", choose "audacious" and tick the box which says "Remember > this appliction for MP3 audio files". Ok so it opens this time. I close > audacious and th

Change default font size in xterm

2011-02-20 Thread Edward C. Jones
I have just installed squeeze. I can change the font size in an xterm by a menu brought up by control-right-click. Unfortunately, I have to do this each time an xterm is created. How can I permanently change the default font size for all xterms? How can I change the window size (80x25 etc.)?

Re: nepomukuser

2011-02-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/20/2011 09:47 AM, Camaleón wrote: I can't see that menu :-? >> >> > gnome menu > System > preferences > system settings > click the advanced tab > click on desktop search I don't have such a menu entry ("system settings") in a pure GNOME environment. It sound to me lik

Re: GNOME root's logins (looking for feeback)

2011-02-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:23:25 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/20/2011 11:14 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I for myself prefer that users can play with "dangerous things" by >> themselves. Once they've been bitten, they'll stop using it. >> >> > Because there are a *few* freedom-loving developers

Re: GNOME root's logins (looking for feeback)

2011-02-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/2011 11:14 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:48:54 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/2011 09:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: Hello, I wonder what is the point of forbidding root's GUI logins from GDM greeter while this can be easily by-passed without editing any

Re: Setup xterm to use TrueType Fonts in .Xdefaults or .Xresources

2011-02-20 Thread Joe Riel
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:06:56 +0100 Csanyi Pal wrote: > Csanyi Pal writes: > > > Lines that I tried to use for this setup in .Xdefaults doesn't works > > when I log out/in into X Window system, but only works when I run > > the command 'xrdb -merge .Xdefaults': > > > > xterm*geometry: 90x40 > >

Re: Two node storage failover with lvm and ISCSI

2011-02-20 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Freitag, den 18.02.2011, 20:37 +0800 schrieb Justin Jereza: > I'd consider running clvm + gfs2 instead. That way, both nodes can > stay up and connected to the same filesystem at the same time. The > only decision left would be which node to use. OTOH, you can have an > HA configuration as

Re: repos for dropbox and skype

2011-02-20 Thread Slicky Johnson
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:14:22 -0600 "mike cutie and maia" wrote: > Hi, > > > > Is their a set of repos to install bidgin I have sid non-free already > enabled > > > > When I do an > > Apt-get install skype > > And > > Apt-get install dropbox > > > > It says it can't find them and

Cannot set preferred application

2011-02-20 Thread Russell Gadd
I'm trying to change the default application which is used to play MP3 files in Gnome. Currently the default application for multimedia player is Totem Movie Player. I know its not a movie but when I click on an MP3 file in Nautilus it tries for a split second to use Movie Player then quits. If

Re: GNOME root's logins (looking for feeback)

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 11:14 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:48:54 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/2011 09:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: Hello, I wonder what is the point of forbidding root's GUI logins from GDM greeter while this can be easily by-passed without editing any configuration file?

Re: GNOME root's logins (looking for feeback)

2011-02-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:48:54 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/20/2011 09:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I wonder what is the point of forbidding root's GUI logins from GDM >> greeter while this can be easily by-passed without editing any >> configuration file? >> >> > Behavioral condition

repos for dropbox and skype

2011-02-20 Thread mike cutie and maia
Hi, Is their a set of repos to install bidgin I have sid non-free already enabled When I do an Apt-get install skype And Apt-get install dropbox It says it can't find them and I have done a search on google and the repos I found don't work any help wood be greetfully reseved

Re: Setup xterm to use TrueType Fonts in .Xdefaults or .Xresources

2011-02-20 Thread Csanyi Pal
Csanyi Pal writes: > Lines that I tried to use for this setup in .Xdefaults doesn't works > when I log out/in into X Window system, but only works when I run the > command 'xrdb -merge .Xdefaults': > > xterm*geometry: 90x40 > xterm*renderFont: default > xterm*cursorBlink: true If I use .Xresourc

Setup xterm to use TrueType Fonts in .Xdefaults

2011-02-20 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I'm trying to setup in .Xdefaults for xterm to use TrueType Fonts so I don't must use every time the 'control' key and pointer button three to set this up in the VT Fonts menu. I want also to setup the geometry for xterm and enable blinking cursor too. Lines that I tried to use for this se

Re: GNOME root's logins (looking for feeback)

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 10:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:31:12 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: I wonder what is the point of forbidding root's GUI logins from GDM greeter while this can be easily by-passed without editing any configuration file? D

Re: GNOME root's logins (looking for feeback)

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 09:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: Hello, I wonder what is the point of forbidding root's GUI logins from GDM greeter while this can be easily by-passed without editing any configuration file? Behavioral conditioning. Yes, all we geeks know how to do it, but our "users" don't, and the

Re: GNOME root's logins (looking for feeback)

2011-02-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:31:12 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> I wonder what is the point of forbidding root's GUI logins from GDM >> greeter while this can be easily by-passed without editing any >> configuration file? > > Do you mean through the GDM G

pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 6: no parent found for of device

2011-02-20 Thread Hoang Le
Hi, When my Debian ( Squeeze ) begins to boot, I always see this message before Plymouth actually starts "pci :01:00.0: BAR 6: no parent found for of device" How do I fix this? Thank you, Hoang Le

Re: GNOME root's logins (looking for feeback)

2011-02-20 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > I wonder what is the point of forbidding root's GUI logins from GDM > greeter while this can be easily by-passed without editing any > configuration file? Do you mean through the GDM Greeter or by bypassing it with startx? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

dvd+rw-tools/growisofs is broken on 2.6.32 kernel and so with Squeeze.

2011-02-20 Thread Jari Fredriksson
My setup: Debian Lenny amd64 under VMware 2.0.2 on Windows7 hostm using a Writable DVD-RW drive. The drive is cofigured to be directly accessed to the Linux client, not via ATAPI emulation. If I use kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 growisofs works. If I upgrade kernel to .32 via Backports, or distupgrade

Re: Lenny and 2TB USB drive

2011-02-20 Thread John Salmon
Checking 'dmesg' was the answer. It showed that the drive WAS being seen. I did a manual mount and everything worked properly. I also did the same with another 2TB drive with NTFS. Again, a manual mount worked. This tells me the difference between the 1TB and 2TB drives is in the way auto-mount han

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 08:34 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Rob Owens wrote: On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working. dmesg shows this message: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon lspci shows my video card as this: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (re

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:10:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/19/2011 05:32 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:28:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > >>On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:10:34PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >>>There's not much hope if you intend to stay with Squeeze. If

GNOME root's logins (looking for feeback)

2011-02-20 Thread Camaleón
Hello, I wonder what is the point of forbidding root's GUI logins from GDM greeter while this can be easily by-passed without editing any configuration file? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: nepomukuser

2011-02-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:47:20 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 02/20/2011 08:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> > in gnome menu, System-Preferences-System Settings-Advanced-Desktop >>> > search >>> >> I can't see that menu :-? >> >> > gnome menu > System > preferences > system settings > click t

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rob Owens wrote: On my Squeeze system, the nouveau driver isn't working. dmesg shows this message: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon lspci shows my video card as this: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) I do have an onboard video port that

Re: nepomukuser

2011-02-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/20/2011 08:47 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > enable Nepomuk Semantic Desktop was checked. > > as it was also on my wifes KDE desktop. You can disable then, should you don't need it. I thought GNOME was using Tracker as their default indexing search engine, dunno what is the current level

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 07:37 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:20:52 -0500 (EST), Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/17/2011 07:54 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: The longer, more formal name of Debian is "Debian GNU/Linux". It is called that because the core of the system is the fusion of the Linux ker

Re: nepomukuser

2011-02-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/20/2011 08:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: > in gnome menu, System-Preferences-System Settings-Advanced-Desktop search I can't see that menu :-? gnome menu System preferences system settings click the advanced tab click on desktop search > Nepomuk Semantic Desktop > > enab

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:20:52 -0500 (EST), Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/17/2011 07:54 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> The longer, more formal name of Debian is "Debian GNU/Linux". It is called >> that >> because the core of the system is the fusion of the Linux kernel (which is >> not >> part of the G

Re: nepomukuser

2011-02-20 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-02-20 a las 07:50 -0500, Paul Cartwright escribió: (back to list) > On 02/20/2011 07:11 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Nepomuk is kinda KDE4 indexing service and it is started by default when >> you login into your KDE4 session. It can be disabled but AFAIK, it >> shouldn't be loading (unless you

Re: Going remote - some advice please

2011-02-20 Thread AG
On 20/02/11 12:36, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/2011 06:02 AM, AG wrote: On 20/02/11 11:27, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] If it comes together, and we hope it does, we will be living in a yurt for ~6 mos Isn't "I need a computer" antithetical to the spirit of "living in a yurt"? Yes, but not

Re: alt-F2 error

2011-02-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/20/2011 07:04 AM, Camaleón wrote: so I can't alt-F2 and I can't run a program that way.. If we attend to this bug... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560270 ... you should restart your session;-) ah, I see, I will do that ! -- Paul Cartwright -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Going remote - some advice please

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 06:02 AM, AG wrote: On 20/02/11 11:27, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] If it comes together, and we hope it does, we will be living in a yurt for ~6 mos Isn't "I need a computer" antithetical to the spirit of "living in a yurt"? Anyway, aren't yurts a Mongolian thing?

Amarok throwing a seg fault in testing

2011-02-20 Thread AG
Hi all I've run into a problem with Amarok not starting. When opened on the CL it just reports segmentation fault. I have amarok-debug installed and ran gdb amarok and this is the response: GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2-debian Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Reading symbols from /usr

Re: Going remote - some advice please

2011-02-20 Thread AG
On 20/02/11 11:27, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/2011 04:24 AM, AG wrote: On 20/02/11 09:51, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] I'd look for some list/forum/association where archaeologists, field geologists, etc hang out and ask them what kind of kit they use. Ron I was thinking the same thing myse

Re: nepomukuser

2011-02-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 06:56:39 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > what it is, do I need it, and why are there som many processes running? (...) > pbc 29968 1 0 Feb19 ?00:00:18 /usr/bin/nepomukserver > running squeeze & gnome And KDE, I guess. Nepomuk is kinda KDE4 indexing servi

Re: broken python-turbogears dependency list?

2011-02-20 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Jason Rennie wrote: > Hello, > I just moved a system using turbogears to Debian v6.  I found that simply > importing "turbogears" from python (2.6) yielded import errors which could > be fixed by installing the following packages: snip The Debian Python list discu

Re: alt-F2 error

2011-02-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 06:44:37 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > error: > Unable to load file > '/usr/share/gnome-panel/glade/panel-run-dialog.glade'. > > so I can't alt-F2 and I can't run a program that way.. If we attend to this bug... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560270 ...

nepomukuser

2011-02-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
what it is, do I need it, and why are there som many processes running? pbc 29945 29904 0 Feb19 ?00:05:57 /usr/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_contact_feeder --identifier akonadi_nepomuk_contact_feeder pbc 29968 1 0 Feb19 ?00:00:18 /usr/bin/nepomukserver pbc 29970 29968

alt-F2 error

2011-02-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
error: Unable to load file '/usr/share/gnome-panel/glade/panel-run-dialog.glade'. so I can't alt-F2 and I can't run a program that way.. -- Paul Cartwright -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: broken link

2011-02-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:48:27 +0800, Marikris Somera wrote: > I discovered that you are linking to > http://userpages.umbc.edu/~kpokoy1/grammar1.htm from > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/02/msg03294.html > > I found out that this grammar guide moved to > http://www.englishgrammar.org/ >

Re: Going remote - some advice please

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 04:24 AM, AG wrote: On 20/02/11 09:51, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] I'd look for some list/forum/association where archaeologists, field geologists, etc hang out and ask them what kind of kit they use. Ron I was thinking the same thing myself actually. That will probably be the

Re: Keyboard Mapping Strangeness

2011-02-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:31:16 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 17/02/11 13:56, Camaleón wrote: >> What does GDM greeter say about keyboard settings when the user logins? >> >> > I missed this response when you made it, sorry. > > I am not sure what you mean by what does GDM greeter say, AFAIK it

Re: Going remote - some advice please

2011-02-20 Thread AG
On 20/02/11 09:51, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/2011 03:13 AM, AG wrote: On 19/02/11 23:39, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 08:54:03PM +, AG wrote: Dear all My wife and I are looking to go volunteering for at least the next six months and will be 95% off-grid. We want to remain co

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 21:42:34 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/nouveau_dri.so failed > (/usr/lib/dri/nouveau_dri.so: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory) /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/README.Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 2/20/2011 3:20 AM: > Then it should be named: >Debian GNU/X/GNOME/KDE/Lots-of-other-stuff Linux. > > I remember when RMS got all pissy about Hurd getting overshadowed by a > little punk from Finland and fearing that people would forget about his > greatness. I defini

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-20 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 17 February 2011 17:37:37 Lisi wrote: Thanks for such helpful replies. :-) Lisi -- 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/201102201010.55990.lisi.r

Re: question about storage

2011-02-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
shawn wilson put forth on 2/20/2011 12:56 AM: > 2tb of usable space is not that much for mysql data. I have a 750 gig db > personally and know people that have many tb's of mysql and hadoop data. Could you speak in specifics instead of generalities? If I had the hardware at my disposal I could po

Re: broken link

2011-02-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <820752.66606...@web76903.mail.sg1.yahoo.com>, Marikris Somera wrote: >I discovered that you are linking to >http://userpages.umbc.edu/~kpokoy1/grammar1.htm >from http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/02/msg03294.html > >I found out that this grammar guide moved to http://www.englishgrammar.o

Re: question about storage

2011-02-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
shawn wilson put forth on 2/20/2011 12:56 AM: > Also, I'd go with a desktop for database stuff any day. From what I've > experienced, it goes something like this: > Fibre > iscsi > SCSI > ata > firewire > nfs > usb > I say that iscsi is faster than SCSI because I generally have 10GE iscsi and > ma

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