Re: download manager

2011-03-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/04/2011 12:27 AM, hamed hosseini wrote: i need best download manager in linux ,like Internet Download Manager in windows? What exactly does a download manager do that Firefox and wget can't? -- I prefer banana-flavored energy bars made from tofu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: some software like ConvertXtoDVD

2011-03-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/04/2011 12:39 AM, hamed hosseini wrote: i want software for create dvd movie in linux,like ConvertXtoDVD in windows? http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Tovid_Wiki -- I prefer banana-flavored energy bars made from tofu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread GeraldCC
On Friday 04 March 2011 14:38:01 Ron Johnson wrote: > :) > > I *could* say, "Real Men use the CLI. Long live bash!", but I won't. > > When logged in as root, did you try: > # apt-get install gnome > > If you did, then when you reboot you should have a GUI login screen. > Until then, just type

RE: Hyperthreading problem with IRQ handling and scheduling

2011-03-03 Thread Sven Groot
Hi Stan, Thanks for your reply. I will bring this to the attention of the system administrator (I have root access but I don't think they'll appreciate me installing a new kernel on my own). I've just discovered that a similar issue can also occur with pure compute tasks (no I/O at all). If I run

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Hi, Welcome to debian. 2011-03-04 05:06, Ryan Collins skrev: > I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have > to show for it is a shell. [...] I think I may have > installed a server version [...] What > can I do to get a desktop environment installed through my command

Re: Hyperthreading problem with IRQ handling and scheduling

2011-03-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Sven Groot put forth on 3/3/2011 11:28 PM: Hello Sven, > I am using a cluster of machines running Debian 5.0.4, kernel > 2.6.26-2-amd64. These machines have dual Intel Xeon E5530 2.4GHz CPUs, which > are quad-core CPUs with hyperthreading. So that means each machine has 8 > physical CPUs and a to

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-03 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:41:54 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: To try to install Debian 6, I downloaded, as advised on the Debian web site, the Debian 6 netinst iso file, wrote it to a CD, and tried to install Debian 6, using it. However, the computer on which I tr

Hyperthreading problem with IRQ handling and scheduling

2011-03-03 Thread Sven Groot
Hello all, I am using a cluster of machines running Debian 5.0.4, kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64. These machines have dual Intel Xeon E5530 2.4GHz CPUs, which are quad-core CPUs with hyperthreading. So that means each machine has 8 physical CPUs and a total of 16 logical CPUs. I have run into an app

some software like ConvertXtoDVD

2011-03-03 Thread hamed hosseini
i want software for create dvd movie in linux,like ConvertXtoDVD in windows?

Re: download manager

2011-03-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , hamed hosseini wrote: >i need best download manager in linux ,like Internet Download Manager in >windows? Probably don't need one. I use KGet. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201103040022.02781@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >There is no law or decision that supports >the assertion that "Windows" is a trademark or owned by Microsoft. s/or //. >Like I said, I'd give them that word. If they want it make them take it. Er, don't hit send with

Re: download manager

2011-03-03 Thread Artur Frydel
Day Fri, 4 Mar 2011 09:57:53 +0330, you wrote: > i need best download manager in linux ,like Internet Download Manager in > windows? It's all depends from your windows manager. What enviroiment do you use? For me the best is wget. -- Artur 'bzyk' Frydel Tam gdzie deamon mówi shutdown. -- To UNS

download manager

2011-03-03 Thread hamed hosseini
i need best download manager in linux ,like Internet Download Manager in windows?

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <9a3c8437-2e1b-4f25-a3ea-2cd3d3c79...@halblog.com>, Hal Vaughan wrote: >On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:26 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> Please don't give Microsoft the word "windows". If you mean the MS >> Windows operating system say "MS Windows". If you mean the things used >> in a windowing s

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 3, 2011, at 11:06 PM, Ryan Collins wrote: > Someone for the love of GOD, help me. > I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to > show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless entries on > ways to load a gnome desktop, but nothing I try wo

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jason Hsu put forth on 3/3/2011 11:03 PM: > I may get hate-mail for saying this, but I don't recommend Debian as your > first distro. This is entirely dependent on the user's motivation for installing Linux for the first time. If the user is after a more reliable _server_ than Windows (or even o

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:26 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20110303230321.8e7ff15c.jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com>, Jason Hsu wrote: >> I may get hate-mail for saying this, but I don't recommend Debian as your >> first distro. Assuming you have enough RAM (at least 512 MB, preferably 1 >> GB or m

Hyperthreading problem with IRQ handling and scheduling

2011-03-03 Thread Sven Groot
Hello all, I am using a cluster of machines running Debian 5.0.4, kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64. These machines have dual Intel Xeon E5530 2.4GHz CPUs, which are quad-core CPUs with hyperthreading. So that means each machine has 8 physical CPUs and a total of 16 logical CPUs. I have run into an app

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Mark
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Ryan Collins wrote: > Someone for the love of GOD, help me. > Will try. > I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to > show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless entries on > ways to load a gnome desktop, but noth

Re: [Semi-OT] Advice on whether a C++ book is still adequate

2011-03-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d706e9f.9050...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >I have the dusty book "Teach Yourself C++ 4th Ed" by Al Stevens, >from... 1995 and wonder that if I go thru it will I screw myself up >because of new language features. I would ignore C++0x for now. I'm not sure if it has been published yet, but

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110303230321.8e7ff15c.jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com>, Jason Hsu wrote: >I may get hate-mail for saying this, but I don't recommend Debian as your >first distro. Assuming you have enough RAM (at least 512 MB, preferably 1 >GB or more), I recommend Linux Mint. It's known for being user-friendly >an

Re: Stopping the Shorewall firewall stops my Internet connection

2011-03-03 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 03/04/2011 10:42 AM, Jason Hsu wrote: I tried "shorewall clear", but that also disabled my Internet connection. Again, I had to start Shorewall up again to restore my Internte connection. Then it is as Stan had said, stopping shorewall disables your NATing as well. Follow his advise and

Re: Stopping the Shorewall firewall stops my Internet connection

2011-03-03 Thread Jason Hsu
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:51:13 +0530 Mihira Fernando wrote: > > > How are you stoping shorewall ? if you issue a shorewall stop, it goes > in to a lockdown mode. You have to issue a shorewall clear to allow all > traffic. > I tried "shorewall clear", but that also disabled my Internet connection.

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Jason Hsu
I may get hate-mail for saying this, but I don't recommend Debian as your first distro. Assuming you have enough RAM (at least 512 MB, preferably 1 GB or more), I recommend Linux Mint. It's known for being user-friendly and accomodating to Windows users. If you don't have enough RAM for Linux

[Semi-OT] Advice on whether a C++ book is still adequate

2011-03-03 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, I have the dusty book "Teach Yourself C++ 4th Ed" by Al Stevens, from... 1995 and wonder that if I go thru it will I screw myself up because of new language features. Thanks, Ron -- I prefer banana-flavored energy bars made from tofu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: How do you use TCPDump?

2011-03-03 Thread Steven Ayre
There's tshark too... (part of wireshark but commandline like tcpdump, filters are identical to wireshark itself). -Steve On 4 Mar 2011, at 03:11, Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 09:00:43AM EST, Anand Sivaram wrote: > >> Tcpdump and Ethereal are very similar in terms of capture

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 23:06 -0500, Ryan Collins wrote: > Someone for the love of GOD, help me. > I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have > to show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless > entries on ways to load a gnome desktop, but nothing I try

Re: Stopping the Shorewall firewall stops my Internet connection

2011-03-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jason Hsu put forth on 3/3/2011 10:08 PM: > My setup: > Modem -> Firewall/server computer -> Ethernet switch -> Main computer > > The firewall/server computer has Shorewall (firewall), DNSMasq, DHCP3 Server, > and SSH. > > I'm trying to troubleshoot why I'm unable to connect to my network from

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Petrus Validus
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:06:50PM -0500, Ryan Collins wrote: > Someone for the love of GOD, help me. Sure! > I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to > show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless entries on > ways to load a gnome desktop, but

Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Ron Johnson
:) I *could* say, "Real Men use the CLI. Long live bash!", but I won't. When logged in as root, did you try: # apt-get install gnome If you did, then when you reboot you should have a GUI login screen. Until then, just type: $ startx (Ignore the # and $. They are your prompt.) On 03/03

Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Ryan Collins
Someone for the love of GOD, help me. I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless entries on ways to load a gnome desktop, but nothing I try works for me like it has others. Im brand spanking new to Linux,

Re: Stopping the Shorewall firewall stops my Internet connection

2011-03-03 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 03/04/2011 09:38 AM, Jason Hsu wrote: My setup: Modem -> Firewall/server computer -> Ethernet switch -> Main computer The firewall/server computer has Shorewall (firewall), DNSMasq, DHCP3 Server, and SSH. I'm trying to troubleshoot why I'm unable to connect to my network from another lo

Re: Mounting and FTPing with SSH

2011-03-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Andrei Popescu put forth on 3/3/2011 2:03 PM: > On Jo, 03 mar 11, 13:59:18, Jason Hsu wrote: >> Computer A is my firewall/server. Computer B is my main computer. >> >> I can access Computer A from Computer B by using SSH in a manner >> similar to telnet. What do I need to do to have FTP access t

Stopping the Shorewall firewall stops my Internet connection

2011-03-03 Thread Jason Hsu
My setup: Modem -> Firewall/server computer -> Ethernet switch -> Main computer The firewall/server computer has Shorewall (firewall), DNSMasq, DHCP3 Server, and SSH. I'm trying to troubleshoot why I'm unable to connect to my network from another location by using SSH. But that's not the subje

Re: How do you use TCPDump?

2011-03-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 09:00:43AM EST, Anand Sivaram wrote: > Tcpdump and Ethereal are very similar in terms of capture filters. > They both use libpcap. I believe they call it ‘wireshark’ these days.. cj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

2011-03-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:27:50PM EST, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On > plugging it in it shows on the desktop, but on clicking it nothing > happens. Anybody have experience getting this to work on debian > (squeeze)? I bough

Re: IPV6 DNS query

2011-03-03 Thread T o n g
Thanks everyone for the replies, especially to Tom for the answer. On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:47:50 +, elbbit wrote: > :~$ host -6 www.debian.org > www.debian.org has address 86.59.118.148 www.debian.org has address > 82.195.75.97 www.debian.org has IPv6 address > 2001:41b8:202:deb:216:35ff:fec4

RE: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

2011-03-03 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: kjetil1...@gmail.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: RE: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb >Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 17:27:50 -0300 > >>I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On >>plugging it in it shows on

Re: counter strike

2011-03-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On 03/03/2011 03:53 AM, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:11:50AM +0100, Alex PADOLY wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I would like to know How I can play to counter strike on Debian 6.0. > > That requires wine nit Squeeze ships with wine 1.0 and according to > http://appdb.winehq.org/objectMa

Re: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

2011-03-03 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On 03/03/2011 03:27 PM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On > plugging it in it shows on the desktop, > but on clicking it nothing happens. Anybody have experience getting > this to work on debian > (squeeze)? > > Kjetil > >

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-03 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: ...and evidently I like talking about myself. :( All good, nice to hear your story, my PC life began in the TRS-80 days at a local Tandy store in Melbourne AU. I was young then, but not as young as you. Not going into my story right now, but I'm 44 now fwi

Re: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

2011-03-03 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/03/2011 03:27 PM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On plugging it in it shows on the desktop, but on clicking it nothing happens. Anybody have experience getting this to work on debian (squeeze)? Show us what your /etc/fstab

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

2011-03-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:29:46 +, AG wrote: > On 03/03/11 20:59, Lisi wrote: >> >> I shall be visiting the computer concerned again in a couple of weeks' >> time. I'll add user to some more groups then. >> >> >> > Doesn't this simply raise an issue though of how many groups a user > accoun

Re: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

2011-03-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 17:27 Thu 03 Mar, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen (kjetil1...@gmail.com) wrote: > I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On > plugging it in it shows on the desktop, > but on clicking it nothing happens. Anybody have experience getting > this to work on debian > (squeeze)?

Re: Capital letters replaced with indian rupee font in openoffice.org in squeeze.

2011-03-03 Thread L V Gandhi
It happens only in oo. I have done as you said deleting the .openoffice org folder. After that also same problem. Picture url is as below. http://www.picpaste.com/openofficeproblem-tSjCLue2.png On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:22:49 +0530, L V Gandhi wrot

Re: Mounting and FTPing with SSH

2011-03-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 13:59 Thu 03 Mar, Jason Hsu (jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com) wrote: > Computer A is my firewall/server. Computer B is my main computer. > > I can access Computer A from Computer B by using SSH in a manner > similar to telnet. What do I need to do to have FTP access to the > files in Computer A? How

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

2011-03-03 Thread geertsky
Hi Lisi, have a look at ls -l /dev/cdrom to mount /dev/cdrom you need r-x permissions or maybe even rwx, but w is going to be pretty useless... Also, /etc/udev/rules.d/ contains rules which device the permissions of for instance your cdrom,cdrw,sdcard ed But google a udev manual, itś too extens

Re: Amarok crashing on launch

2011-03-03 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 03. 03. 2011 21:06:07 je AG napisal(a): On 01/03/11 23:26, Klistvud wrote: The first thing to check is, does it crash in another user account? I accept that setting up another user account would be a valid test, so my question is due to my own lack of understanding: - I would have tho

Re: Amarok crashing on launch

2011-03-03 Thread AG
On 03/03/11 21:33, Christopher Judd wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2011 15:08:55 AG wrote: ... I've double checked removing amarok completely from my system and reinstalling it and its associated packages (common, dbg, etc.) and it still crashes. I've submitted the crash handler report and a

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

2011-03-03 Thread AG
On 03/03/11 20:59, Lisi wrote: I shall be visiting the computer concerned again in a couple of weeks' time. I'll add user to some more groups then. Lisi Doesn't this simply raise an issue though of how many groups a user account needs to be manually added to. Is this an issue between

Re: Amarok crashing on launch

2011-03-03 Thread Christopher Judd
On Thursday 03 March 2011 15:08:55 AG wrote: > ... > > I've double checked removing amarok completely from my system and > reinstalling it and its associated packages (common, dbg, etc.) and it > still crashes. I've submitted the crash handler report and asked for > assistance on the amarok list

Re: IPV6 DNS query

2011-03-03 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 03 Mar 07:20 -0600, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2011 02 Mar 23:40 -0600, Tom H wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:47 PM, elbbit wrote: > >> > On 03/03/11 03:18, T o n g wrote: > >> >> > >> >> So, how to do IPV6 DNS query? > >> > > >> >

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

2011-03-03 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 03 March 2011 15:28:44 Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:35:49 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I would have tried adding the users to the relevant group if I knew > > which the relevant group was! > > (...) > > Not sure if this will help, but on lenny (and GNOME) my user is member >

new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

2011-03-03 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On plugging it in it shows on the desktop, but on clicking it nothing happens. Anybody have experience getting this to work on debian (squeeze)? Kjetil -- "If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human fa

Re: new hard drive usb "WD My Passport essential SE" 1Tb

2011-03-03 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
I should add that the package says it has "usb 3.0" On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 17:27, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On > plugging it in it shows on the desktop, > but on clicking it nothing happens. Anybody have experience getting >

Re: Amarok crashing on launch

2011-03-03 Thread AG
On 01/03/11 20:47, Jeffrin Jose wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 06:07:35PM +, AG wrote: (1) how do I capture all of the debugging output from amarok --debug? I think You may start gnome terminal and run "amarok --debug 2> debug.txt". (2) any initial thoughts on why Amarok

Re: Amarok crashing on launch

2011-03-03 Thread AG
On 01/03/11 23:26, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 01. 03. 2011 19:07:35 je AG napisal(a): (2) any initial thoughts on why Amarok might start to crash today? I updated today and rebooted yesterday, and Amarok was working fine for me yesterday after I booted up. So, it may have been something in today'

Re: FAT filesystem with a directory cycle

2011-03-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/03/2011 05:55 AM, Joel Roth wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 06:31:49AM -0500, shawn wilson wrote: [snip] I thought fsck was a bit based integrity checker and didn't care about directories?... and how do you know what directory fsck is on anyway? The same warning repeated endlessly Sh

Re: Amarok crashing on launch

2011-03-03 Thread AG
On 01/03/11 21:57, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Simon Brandmair wrote: On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:30:02 +0100 AG wrote: However, attempting to capture this output via amarok --debug > amarok.txt (or | amarok.txt) doesn't capture anything at all in a text format that I can copy and paste as part of this

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-03-03 Thread Steven
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 19:33 +, Steven Ayre wrote: > Normal users will clear screen on logout, root will not. > That was the case in Etch, I'm not sure about Lenny, but both squeeze and testing/wheezy don't behave like that on my machine. > > > On 23 February 2011 22:26, Sven Joachim wrote

Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?

2011-03-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Brian wrote: On Thu 03 Mar 2011 at 10:19:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was to the effect Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this

Re: Mounting and FTPing with SSH

2011-03-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 03 mar 11, 13:59:18, Jason Hsu wrote: > Computer A is my firewall/server. Computer B is my main computer. > > I can access Computer A from Computer B by using SSH in a manner > similar to telnet. What do I need to do to have FTP access to the > files in Computer A? How do I mount a par

Mounting and FTPing with SSH

2011-03-03 Thread Jason Hsu
Computer A is my firewall/server. Computer B is my main computer. I can access Computer A from Computer B by using SSH in a manner similar to telnet. What do I need to do to have FTP access to the files in Computer A? How do I mount a partition on Computer A from Computer B? -- Jason Hsu

Re: Problems installing VLC

2011-03-03 Thread AG
On 27/02/11 11:58, Brian wrote: AG wrote: I am having troubles installing VLC on testing/ wheezy. You have now solved your problem but if you have Debian-Multimedia in your sources.list it may have been the cause of your problem. My testing upgrade today wanted to remove vlc and vlc

Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?

2011-03-03 Thread Brian
On Thu 03 Mar 2011 at 10:19:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian > on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was > to the effect > > Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this syste

Re: Debian Newbie need help

2011-03-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 17:58 Thu 03 Mar, p3qwes...@hushmail.com (p3qwes...@hushmail.com) wrote: > Hi. > > I need help please. > > Because I'd like to move to Debian, I have tried the Debian 6 Live > CD. However, because the screen refresh rate is fixed on 60hz, For CRTs, that's an issue, especially if you have flo

Re: Capital letters replaced with indian rupee font in openoffice.org in squeeze.

2011-03-03 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:22:49 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:12:32 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: >> >> > All capital letters in menu, tabs, column numbers are replaced with >> > Indian rupee font in my openoffice.org. How to norm

Re: Debian Newbie need help

2011-03-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:58:12 +, p3qwestra wrote: > I need help please. Next time try to give a more descriptive "subject" line ;-) > Because I'd like to move to Debian, I have tried the Debian 6 Live CD. > However, because the screen refresh rate is fixed on 60hz, I cannot > proceed. (...)

Re: Capital letters replaced with indian rupee font in openoffice.org in squeeze.

2011-03-03 Thread L V Gandhi
Sorry for personal mail. Problem of gmail. Thanks for the response. User interface like capital letters in menu, tab title, column heading numbers are replaced with rupee font in KDE. I also have gtk-qt-engine installed. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:1

Re: Debian Newbie need help

2011-03-03 Thread Mark
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:58 AM, wrote: > Hi. > > I need help please. > > Because I'd like to move to Debian, I have tried the Debian 6 Live > CD. However, because the screen refresh rate is fixed on 60hz, I > cannot proceed. I am unable to change the rate and leaving it on > that setting means I

Re: Debian Newbie need help

2011-03-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 03 mar 11, 17:58:12, p3qwes...@hushmail.com wrote: > Hi. > > I need help please. > > Because I'd like to move to Debian, I have tried the Debian 6 Live > CD. However, because the screen refresh rate is fixed on 60hz, I > cannot proceed. I am unable to change the rate and leaving it on >

Re: How do I clone Computer A from Computer B?

2011-03-03 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 03. 03. 2011 18:42:02 je Jason Hsu napisal(a): Computer A is running minimal Debian with a firewall and servers, including SSH. I can use Computer B to ssh my way into Computer A. How do I use Computer B to clone Computer A? So far, I've only been able to clone Computer A by booting

Debian Newbie need help

2011-03-03 Thread p3qwestra
Hi. I need help please. Because I'd like to move to Debian, I have tried the Debian 6 Live CD. However, because the screen refresh rate is fixed on 60hz, I cannot proceed. I am unable to change the rate and leaving it on that setting means I get migraine. My graphics card is a 256MB NVIDIA 76

Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?

2011-03-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 03 mar 11, 10:19:21, Thomas H. George wrote: > I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian > on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was > to the effect > > Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this system. > Do you

Re: How do I clone Computer A from Computer B?

2011-03-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:42:02 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: > Computer A is running minimal Debian with a firewall and servers, > including SSH. > > I can use Computer B to ssh my way into Computer A. How do I use > Computer B to clone Computer A? So far, I've only been able to clone > Computer A by b

Re: sysv-rc-conf and LSB headers

2011-03-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 02 mar 11, 21:32:48, Freeman wrote: > > No bugs & all is well after some insserv practice. I just liked the luxury > of a curses front-end overview of configs and changes. With insserv, a > visual confirmation requires checking the rc_.d directories. You might want to check the current th

How do I clone Computer A from Computer B?

2011-03-03 Thread Jason Hsu
Computer A is running minimal Debian with a firewall and servers, including SSH. I can use Computer B to ssh my way into Computer A. How do I use Computer B to clone Computer A? So far, I've only been able to clone Computer A by booting up a live CD on Computer A and running PartImage. -- Ja

Re: Capital letters replaced with indian rupee font in openoffice.org in squeeze.

2011-03-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:12:32 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > All capital letters in menu, tabs, column numbers are replaced with > Indian rupee font in my openoffice.org. How to normalize it? You mean in the UI (user interface) or inside the document content? Which DE/window manager are you using, K

Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?

2011-03-03 Thread Steven Ayre
> Without starting over what is the best way to make the stick bootable? Boot from the installer in recovery mode and manually install grub to the MBR of the USB stick. -Steve On 3 March 2011 15:19, Thomas H. George wrote: > I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debia

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-03-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 02 mar 11, 10:04:12, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Andrei Popescu > wrote: > > AFAIK this is the 64bit version. I had no issues with it, but I'm not a > > heavy flash user. > > > > > ia32 =! ia64 nor is it amd64 ... it is Intel Architecture, 32-bit. So where > di

Capital letters replaced with indian rupee font in openoffice.org in squeeze.

2011-03-03 Thread L V Gandhi
All capital letters in menu, tabs, column numbers are replaced with Indian rupee font in my openoffice.org. How to normalize it? -- L V Gandhi

Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?

2011-03-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:19:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian > on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was > to the effect > > Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this system.

Debian Installer Design Oversight?

2011-03-03 Thread Thomas H. George
I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was to the effect Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this system. Do you want the mbr written to the first hard drive? My answer was no

Re: HOW to REDIRECT to HTTPS?

2011-03-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:04:01 -0800, erikmccaskey64 wrote: > I'm searching for a method [on client side] to redirect to HTTPS in a > few given domains. (...) You can use/setup a proxy (i.e., squid). OTHO, some of those services (Gmail, Facebook?) allow the user to enforce a "https://"; policy u

Re: PasswordAuthentication option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

2011-03-03 Thread green
Jason Hsu wrote at 2011-03-02 21:59 -0600: > PasswordAuthentication parameter See the man page sshd_config(5). With password authentication disabled, you will not be able to login using your normal system password. In that case, you would probably want to set up public key authentication, whic

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

2011-03-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:35:49 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: (...) > I have googled the error message, but got no hits: > > Your search - Rejected .. ”/usr/sbin/hald “)) - did not match any > documents. You googled for the wrong text excerpt ;-) http://www.google.com/search?q=interface%3D%E2%80

SOLVED (I think) Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

2011-03-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On 3 March 2011 14:35, Lisi Reisz wrote: > When I try to mount some things (not all - e.g. I can mount one DVDRW > drive, but not the second in the same machine and with the same user > and I cannot mount the SD card from the camera;  Let alone the > camera!) I get the following error message: > >

Re: 3g Modem + usb-modeswitch kernel error

2011-03-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:55:42 -0300, Sergio Charpinel Jr. wrote: > I have a 3g modem MSA110UP connected to a updated debian squeeze > machine. I use usb-modeswitch because this device is not switched by the > kernel. I also use wvdial to connect. > > After some time (2 days), I receive 10 "kernel:

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
George wrote: >> Did you verified the checksum of the ISO image before burn it and also >> the whole CD once it was written in the medium? > >MD5 sums of the ISOs are correct, I'm not going to MD5 the burned >images - takes a long time, and I don't believe this to be the issue. > >> How about booti

Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?

2011-03-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Jason wrote: >I've also had problems installing Debian 6.0.0 on my 10-year-old IBM NetVista >computer using the full >CD-1 ISO. When I selected “Install” or “Graphical Install” on the >installer boot menu, the >screen froze up and then flickered. > >Further investigation confirmed that t

mounting and/or permissions problem

2011-03-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
When I try to mount some things (not all - e.g. I can mount one DVDRW drive, but not the second in the same machine and with the same user and I cannot mount the SD card from the camera; Let alone the camera!) I get the following error message: Rejected send message, 3 matched rules; type=”method

Re: Revert to lenny's grub

2011-03-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
George wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: The way to do that is to first remove grub-pc and it will cleanup grub for you, remember not to reboot yet ;-), then make sure you have a /etc/boot/grub folder, now install grub-leg

Re: Revert to lenny's grub

2011-03-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Tom H wrote: On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: The way to do that is to first remove grub-pc and it will cleanup grub for you, remember not to reboot yet ;-), then make sure you have a /etc/boot/grub folder, now install grub-legacy, next run 'grub-update /dev/sdax' (x being t

Re: How do you use TCPDump?

2011-03-03 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 09:43, Mike Viau wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:00:41 -0600 wrote: > > > > I have it installed, and I can look up the parameters in the command. > > > > What I don't understand is how I use it to investigate intrusions. Can > someone shed some light on this? > > > > W

Re: IPV6 DNS query

2011-03-03 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2011 02 Mar 23:40 -0600, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:47 PM, elbbit wrote: >> > On 03/03/11 03:18, T o n g wrote: >> >> >> >> So, how to do IPV6 DNS query? >> > >> > host -6 >> >> "host -6" (and "dig -6") use ipv6 to make t

3g Modem + usb-modeswitch kernel error

2011-03-03 Thread Sergio Charpinel Jr.
Hi, I have a 3g modem MSA110UP connected to a updated debian squeeze machine. I use usb-modeswitch because this device is not switched by the kernel. I also use wvdial to connect. After some time (2 days), I receive 10 "kernel: [222393.073561] option: option_instat_callback: error -84" messages,

HOW to REDIRECT to HTTPS?

2011-03-03 Thread erikmccaskey64
I'm searching for a method [on client side] to redirect to HTTPS in a few given domains. e.g.: http://www.facebook.com/ to https://www.facebook.com/ Ok. I use several webbrowsers, and not all of them has "add-ons" to redirect these pages to https. My purpose is this: when i go to "htt

Re: VMware Workstation

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 3 March 2011 11:57, shawn wilson wrote: > A few general comments on the thread: > First, I'd recommend VMWare if you want to also buy their support - its > really quite good. Good comment. *If* you have the dosh to flaunt on VMWare support and/or PS, and are set on buying something corporate,

Re: IPV6 DNS query

2011-03-03 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 02 Mar 23:40 -0600, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:47 PM, elbbit wrote: > > On 03/03/11 03:18, T o n g wrote: > >> > >> So, how to do IPV6 DNS query? > > > > host -6 > > "host -6" (and "dig -6") use ipv6 to make the query but don't run an > ipv6 query (unless they do an

Re: counter strike

2011-03-03 Thread Alberto Luaces
Alex PADOLY writes: > Hello, > > I would like to know How I can play to counter strike on Debian 6.0. > Thanks. Alex, get used to search for answers to the questions you already posted in the past: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg02880.html -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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