Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/10/2011 12:01 AM, S D wrote: --- On Wed, 3/9/11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: PGP/GPG and TLS are *significantly* more secure than mailing your papers. You seem to forget that in the process you entrust your data to a *for-profit* corporation that will store and use it in the way tha

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread S D
--- On Wed, 3/9/11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > PGP/GPG and TLS are *significantly* more secure than > mailing your papers. You seem to forget that in the process you entrust your data to a *for-profit* corporation that will store and use it in the way that profits them, though you may fin

Re: kppp not working after upgrade

2011-03-09 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 15:34:43 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > I recently upgraded to Debian Squeeze. kppp was working in Lenny, > > but does not work now. It connects to the modem, and dials, but it > > then gives an error 1 (pppd error that apparently means "An >

Re: unable to install nfs-kernel-server

2011-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/09/2011 08:43 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Tom H mailto:tomh0...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Scott Ferguson mailto:prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com>> wrote: > On 09/03/11 17:45, Liam Cassidey wrote: >> >> I've removed all e

Re: unable to install nfs-kernel-server

2011-03-09 Thread Brian
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: > > On 09/03/11 17:45, Liam Cassidey wrote: > >> > >> I've removed all entries from /etc/exports, have portmap and nfs-common > >> running, the firewall down, have an empty /etc/hosts.deny and

Re: Upgrading the old OS vs. fresh installation of the new OS

2011-03-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 02:13:17 pm Jason Hsu wrote: > I'd especially like to hear from those of you who are Linux consultants or > sysadmins. This is a timely topic given that Debian Squeeze moved from the > testing branch to the stable branch. > > Which do you prefer: Upgrading the old OS o

Re: Can't mount pendrive on testing

2011-03-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Mar 2011 at 19:00:16 -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote: > [26223.501248] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through > [26223.501254] sdb: sdb1 > [26223.517267] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through > [26223.517272] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk > >

Re: Upgrading the old OS vs. fresh installation of the new OS

2011-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110309171317.41bb9188.jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com>, Jason Hsu wrote: >Which do you prefer: Upgrading the old OS or doing a fresh installation? I >learn towards a fresh installation. Upgrade. Always. I've heard others swear by "New install. Always." though. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <87aah3hpf0@thumper.dhh.gt.org>, John Hasler wrote: >I wrote: >> No electronic transmission method can be as secure as walking into >> my CPA's office and handing him papers. In <201103091258.46708@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >Similarly, if you engage a tax profess

Re: Network connection drops in Squeeze

2011-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
On 03/09/2011 06:04 PM, David A. Parker wrote: On 03/09/2011 05:32 PM, David A. Parker wrote: So far, this has never happened randomly during an SSH session. It always seems to be triggered by some sort of network activity. What's especially frustrating is that absolutely nothing gets logged in

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread John Hasler
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: > ...are the most secure way to exchange information publicly available. I wrote: > That statement is certainly false on its face. No electronic > transmission method can be as secure as walking into my CPA's office > and handing him papers. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Upgrading the old OS vs. fresh installation of the new OS

2011-03-09 Thread Jason Hsu
I'd especially like to hear from those of you who are Linux consultants or sysadmins. This is a timely topic given that Debian Squeeze moved from the testing branch to the stable branch. Which do you prefer: Upgrading the old OS or doing a fresh installation? I learn towards a fresh installat

Re: Network connection drops in Squeeze

2011-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
On 03/09/2011 05:32 PM, David A. Parker wrote: So far, this has never happened randomly during an SSH session. It always seems to be triggered by some sort of network activity. What's especially frustrating is that absolutely nothing gets logged in the system logs when this happens. I originally

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-09 16:11:47 John Hasler wrote: >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: >> ...are the most secure way to exchange information publicly available. > >That statement is certainly false on its face. No electronic >transmission method can be as secure as walking into my CPA's office and >handing him

Re: Network connection drops in Squeeze

2011-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
On 03/09/2011 04:30 PM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:11:41 -0500 "David A. Parker" wrote: Hello, I have an HP 6005 workstation with a fresh install of Debian Squeeze, and I am seeing some very strange networking behavior. The network connection seems to drop periodically, but it com

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > ...the Web is inherently insecure. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: > Well, that statement is false on it's face. History disagrees with you. > Properly implemented TLS trust chains... Some probably exist, somewhere. They do not include Verisign. > ...are the most secure way to exch

Can't mount pendrive on testing

2011-03-09 Thread Marcelo Laia
Hi, When I plug a Kingston 1Gb pendrive on my desktop, was popup a information: Don't was possible to mount "JANA" Not authorization dmesg output [26060.620029] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6 [26060.804550] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=13fe, idProduct

Re: Squeeze freezes

2011-03-09 Thread Joe Riel
That happened to me. A google search revealed the problem was common to other users of the motherboard I have (Asus P7PP5D) and the kernel (2.6.32). The fix was to use a USB keyboard and USB mouse. That has completely eliminated the lockups. Just changing to a USB mouse reduced the freeze rate

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Eric Morey
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 13:10 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> > >> Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer? > >> > > > > I'm able to fill form fields and save values with v 9.4. > > > > > > Yes, but is this the Debian acroread v.9.4 or Adobe's v.9.4? > Adobe's -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Re (2): preloading a driver for an autostarted application in LXDE

2011-03-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-03-09, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: >> The script should go in /usr/local/bin/ directly; > > Where is it specified? This sentence in the policy page cited previously > suggests > that dir should be under /usr/local/bin/. "These directories > (/usr/local/*/dir/) > should be removed on pa

Re: Network connection drops in Squeeze

2011-03-09 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:11:41 -0500 "David A. Parker" wrote: > Hello, > > I have an HP 6005 workstation with a fresh install of Debian Squeeze, > and I am seeing some very strange networking behavior. The network > connection seems to drop periodically, but it comes back if you hit a > key on

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-09 13:44:32 John Hasler wrote: >I wrote: >> Sure, if you don't mind publishing your tax returns. > >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: >> "Publishing" is perhaps a bit harsh. Most web-based tax services use >> end-to- end encryption to prevent the data from being intercepted both >> times i

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/09/2011 11:55 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:10:55 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer? Do you have any URI that we can test? Yes, get form 1040 from here: http://www.irs.gov/ It's the

Re: Monitor blinks off in the middle of mouse/kbd activity

2011-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/09/2011 10:28 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 10:05:30AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I must wait 20ish minutes until it goes into sleep mode for it to respond to a kbd press or mouse wiggle. There's nothing in syslog or Xorg.0.log to Attached is the

Re (2): preloading a driver for an autostarted application in LXDE

2011-03-09 Thread peasthope
> The script should go in /usr/local/bin/ directly; Where is it specified? This sentence in the policy page cited previously suggests that dir should be under /usr/local/bin/. "These directories (/usr/local/*/dir/) should be removed on package removal if they are empty." So my previous me

Re: What is the difference?

2011-03-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-03-09 21:03 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: >> Since this is no longer possible, you should run >> "dpkg --clear-selections" prior to "dpkg --set-selections" to replicate >> an installation on another computer. > > Yeah, this is a good advice. I will do this, and play a little bit around >

Network connection drops in Squeeze

2011-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, I have an HP 6005 workstation with a fresh install of Debian Squeeze, and I am seeing some very strange networking behavior. The network connection seems to drop periodically, but it comes back if you hit a key on the keyboard plugged into the machine. Here's the general way it happe

Re (3): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread peasthope
From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:58:41 -0600 > Most web-based tax services use end-to- > end encryption to prevent the data from being intercepted both times it is > "on > the wire": from you to them and from them to the IRS. True in Canada also. Revenue Canada qual

Re: What is the difference?

2011-03-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Since this is no longer possible, you should run > "dpkg --clear-selections" prior to "dpkg --set-selections" to replicate > an installation on another computer. > > Sven Yeah, this is a good advice. I will do this, and play a little bit around with this. Thank you for discussing this with me

Re: Debian Squeeze gcc 4.3 and 4.4 why two C compilers?

2011-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:52:38 -0800, David Christensen wrote: > I recently installed Debian 6.0.0 i386 Squeeze on a system with NVIDIA > graphics. When I went to build/ install the proprietary NVIDIA video > driver, it wanted gcc. So I installed the Debian gcc package. The > NVIDIA installer the

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Sure, if you don't mind publishing your tax returns. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: > "Publishing" is perhaps a bit harsh. Most web-based tax services use > end-to- end encryption to prevent the data from being intercepted both > times it is "on the wire": from you to them and from the

Re: What is the difference?

2011-03-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-03-09 20:40 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > It is not a great problem, but I wondered, why non-installed packages > appeared > as to be installed. Because they have been selected for installation (dselect sometimes "helpfully" does that automatically when you run it as root). > When I

Re: What is the difference?

2011-03-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> | > | Get list of package selections, and write it to stdout. Without a > | pattern, non-installed packages (i.e. those which have been > | previously purged) will not be shown. > Yes, of course I read this. But I thoughtm, the asterisk would mark ANY pattern, and no asterisk

Re: What is the difference?

2011-03-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-03-09 20:24 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-03-09 19:59 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > >> I wondered what is the difference between >> >> a) dpkg --get-selections "*" > mylist.txt >> and >> b) dpkg --get-selections > mylist.txt > > This is mentioned in the dpkg manpage: > > , >

Re: What is the difference?

2011-03-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-03-09 19:59 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > I wondered what is the difference between > > a) dpkg --get-selections "*" > mylist.txt > and > b) dpkg --get-selections > mylist.txt This is mentioned in the dpkg manpage: , | --get-selections [package-name-pattern...] | Get list of

Re: What is the difference?

2011-03-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Mittwoch, 9. März 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:59:30 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > I wondered what is the difference between > > > > a) dpkg --get-selections "*" > mylist.txt and > > b) dpkg --get-selections > mylist.txt > > > > I get different results, but the asterix i

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:10:55 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom dijo: Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer? Do you have any URI that we can test? Yes, get form 1040 from here: http://www.irs.gov/ I had no trouble using Adobe Reader 9.4.2 on 64-bit Linux. I di

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Eric Morey wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 09:31 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from debian-multimedia but I cannot edit a single form although the document properti

Re: What is the difference?

2011-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:59:30 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > I wondered what is the difference between > > a) dpkg --get-selections "*" > mylist.txt and > b) dpkg --get-selections > mylist.txt > > I get different results, but the asterix is a joker, and the results > should be the same. The manu

What is the difference?

2011-03-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello list, I wondered what is the difference between a) dpkg --get-selections "*" > mylist.txt and b) dpkg --get-selections > mylist.txt I get different results, but the asterix is a joker, and the results should be the same. The manual did not mention the asterix, and I suppose (as many site

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-09 11:10:39 John Hasler wrote: >Peter E. writes: >> Isn't a Web based tax calculation more efficient? > >Sure, if you don't mind publishing your tax returns. "Publishing" is perhaps a bit harsh. Most web-based tax services use end-to- end encryption to prevent the data from being inter

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 12:25 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 10:10 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Camaleón wrote: > >>> On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:31:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>> > Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 10:10 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:31:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 06:31:48 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. > > This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from > debian-multimedia but I cannot edit a single form although the document > properties sa

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:10:55 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer? Do you have any URI that we can test? Yes, get form 1040 from here: http://www.irs.gov/ It's the first PDF on the top lefthand side. On my syste

Debian Squeeze gcc 4.3 and 4.4 why two C compilers?

2011-03-09 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I recently installed Debian 6.0.0 i386 Squeeze on a system with NVIDIA graphics. When I went to build/ install the proprietary NVIDIA video driver, it wanted gcc. So I installed the Debian gcc package. The NVIDIA installer then informed me that the version of gcc installed on

Re: Problem with Debian 6

2011-03-09 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 03/09/2011 03:21 PM, Juan Germán Arrieta Martínez wrote: Hi, I'm German from Mexico. I have a problem when I install Debian in my laptop. When I reboot my computer after the installation, and choose Debian in the grub, the screen turns off and the hard disc stop working. My computer is a VAIO

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 10:10 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > > On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:31:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > >> Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. > >> > >> This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from > >> deb

Re: preloading a driver for an autostarted application in LXDE

2011-03-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-03-09, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Folk, > > Seems that v4l1compat.so is needed for a USB camera to work for Skype. > So > LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype > given interactively starts skype with a working camera. > > Normally Skype in this system is started by the presence of

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread John Hasler
Peter E. writes: > Isn't a Web based tax calculation more efficient? Sure, if you don't mind publishing your tax returns. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:49:18 -0800, peasthope wrote: > From: Camaleon > Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:34:41 + (UTC) >> Form 1040 can be filled fine with Evince (from lenny) ... I'm not sure >> if it's okay with just filling the data and then print it or sending >> the file via e-mail or by direct

[SOLVED] Re: Application shortcuts don't work in KDE4?

2011-03-09 Thread S D
--- On Wed, 3/9/11, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Just check that the following works for you > (if it does please post as [SOLVED]) > > > $ cp ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc > ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc_before_I_had_a_fiddle > $ nano ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc > > change line 7 from:- > Ena

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:41:23 -0500, Eric Morey wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 16:34 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Form 1040 can be filled fine with Evince (from lenny) > > I was not able to save values in the form fields with evince. Only with > acroread v 9.4. No? Weird, I can :-? (evince 2.22.2

Re: Problem with Debian 6

2011-03-09 Thread Simon Brandmair
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:40:01 +0100 Juan Germán Arrieta Martínez wrote: > Hi, I'm German from Mexico. > I have a problem when I install Debian in my laptop. When I reboot my > computer after the installation, and choose Debian in the grub, the > screen turns off and the hard disc stop working. > My

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:10:55 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom dijo: >>> Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer? >> Do you have any URI that we can test? >Yes, get form 1040 from here: http://www.irs.gov/ I had no trouble using Adobe Reader 9.4.2 on 64-bit Linux. I didn't try Okular, Evince,

Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread peasthope
From: Camaleon Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:34:41 + (UTC) > Form 1040 can be filled fine with Evince (from lenny) ... > I'm not sure if it's okay with just filling the data > and then print it or sending the file via e-mail or by direct upload. Isn't a Web based tax calculation more efficie

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Eric Morey
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 09:31 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. > > This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from > debian-multimedia but I cannot edit a single form although the document > properties say

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Eric Morey
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 16:34 +, Camaleón wrote: > Form 1040 can be filled fine with Evince (from lenny) I was not able to save values in the form fields with evince. Only with acroread v 9.4. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:10:55 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >>> Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer? >> >> Do you have any URI that we can test? >> >> > Yes, get form 1040 from here: http://www.irs.gov/ It's the first PDF on > the top lefthand side. On my syste

preloading a driver for an autostarted application in LXDE

2011-03-09 Thread peasthope
Folk, Seems that v4l1compat.so is needed for a USB camera to work for Skype. So LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype given interactively starts skype with a working camera. Normally Skype in this system is started by the presence of ~/.config/autostart/skype.desktop containing the lin

Re: Monitor blinks off in the middle of mouse/kbd activity

2011-03-09 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 10:05:30AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >I must wait 20ish minutes until it goes into sleep mode for it to > >respond to a kbd press or mouse wiggle. > > > >There's nothing in syslog or Xorg.0.log to > > > >Attached is the contents of "dmesg | tai

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:31:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from debian-multimedia but I cannot edit a single form although the document properties say

Re: Monitor blinks off in the middle of mouse/kbd activity

2011-03-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: I must wait 20ish minutes until it goes into sleep mode for it to respond to a kbd press or mouse wiggle. There's nothing in syslog or Xorg.0.log to Attached is the contents of "dmesg | tail". The difficulty with blaming nouveau is that this started while I was still usi

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:31:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. > > This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from > debian-multimedia but I cannot edit a single form although the document > properties say "fillable

Re: Squeeze freezes

2011-03-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-03-09, Aquiles Carattino wrote: > I have just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze but when surfing internet (both > with Icewasel or Google Chromium) in some sites (like gmail, for instance) > the PC completely freezes (no way of going to console, rebooting, etc.) I > have to turn off the powe

Re: Squeeze freezes

2011-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:10:09 -0600, Aquiles Carattino wrote: > I have just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze but when surfing internet > (both with Icewasel or Google Chromium) in some sites (like gmail, for > instance) the PC completely freezes (no way of going to console, > rebooting, etc.) I have

[OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from debian-multimedia but I cannot edit a single form although the document properties say "fillable". Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer? Hug

Re: Squeeze freezes

2011-03-09 Thread chymian
hi, same here. the browser - mostly rekonq - freezes the complete box independen of the uptime. once, I have been waiting more then 2 h w/o any result. it seems that it likes to freeze on youtube and googlevideo more often, after opening a few (1-4) tabs. I have the "manually load module" enab

Re: html to image

2011-03-09 Thread godo
On 2011-03-09 13:44, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:08:42 +0200, Atıf CEYLAN wrote: I need to a console based html to image converter application. I found the html2png2 application but it need to X. How about "html2ps"? Once you get the PS it should be easier to get an image from that

Problem with Debian 6

2011-03-09 Thread Juan Germán Arrieta Martínez
Hi, I'm German from Mexico. I have a problem when I install Debian in my laptop. When I reboot my computer after the installation, and choose Debian in the grub, the screen turns off and the hard disc stop working. My computer is a VAIO VPCCW25FL: Intel Core i3 M330 4 Gb RAM NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

Re: what is the “Online Certificate Status Protocol”

2011-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <12e99f41477.8900856560593359179.-8593987615458235...@zoho.com>, erikmccaskey64 wrote: >Is my redirection method with privoxy is secure? Security is not a boolean state. It is probably more secure now than it was previously. OCSP is used to verify that no certificate in the trust chain has

Squeeze DRBD Xen: Kernel Trap/Crash in DRBD

2011-03-09 Thread Bruno Voigt
I am using a 2 node Xen+DRBD configuration and always get Dom0 kernel traps in the DRBD module some time after starting PV DomU using some DRBD resources. System type: HP DL360 G6 18 GB of memory installed, 3 GB reserved for Dom0 (dom0_mem=3072M) ii drbd8-utils 2:8.3.7-2.1 ii linux-image-2.6.32-5

Re: unable to install nfs-kernel-server

2011-03-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 09/03/11 17:45, Liam Cassidey wrote: >> >> I've removed all entries from /etc/exports, have portmap and nfs-common >> running, the firewall down, have an empty /etc/hosts.deny and a single >> entry in hosts.allow (taken from the portmap ma

Re: html to image

2011-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:08:42 +0200, Atıf CEYLAN wrote: > I need to a console based html to image converter application. I found > the html2png2 application but it need to X. How about "html2ps"? Once you get the PS it should be easier to get an image from that kind of source. To fetch a PDF of

Re: Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:31:37 +0330, hadi motamedi wrote: > On 3/8/11, Camaleón wrote: >> Run (as root, from Debian): >> >> ifconfig >> cat /etc/resolv.conf >> cat /etc/network/interfaces >> route -n >> ping -c 3 172.18.209.1 >> >> And put here the output. > Thank you very much for your reply. I

Re: html to image

2011-03-09 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:08:42 +0200, Atıf CEYLAN writes: > I need to a console based html to image converter application. I found > the html2png2 application but it need to X. That is not something trivial. Consider the different outputs of different web browser rendering engines, e.g., Gecko, KHTM

html to image

2011-03-09 Thread Atıf CEYLAN
Hi all, I need to a console based html to image converter application. I found the html2png2 application but it need to X. -- /** * @AUTHOR Atıf CEYLAN * Software Developer & System Admin * http://www.atifceylan.com */

Re: how to only allow tcp on dport 443 on the OUTPUT chain?

2011-03-09 Thread ZLIGUI Hammou
pour iptables il y a une régle par defaut si il accept tous par defaut dans ce cas il faut juste inderdit udp au 80 si l'inverse ( reject par defaut ) il faut accepte tcp a 80 pour le premier : iptables -A output -p udp --dport 80 -j drop si la dexieme : iptables -A output -p tcp--dport 80 -j acc

Re: how to only allow tcp on dport 443 on the OUTPUT chain?

2011-03-09 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 09:24:41 + (UTC) Virgo Pärna wrote: > I may be mistaken, but such hard rules could cause serious > problems. I think that even dns name resolution would not work > anymore (you cannot send out dns queries). Essentialy you could only > browse websites on port 80 using IP

what is the “Online Certificate Status Protocol”

2011-03-09 Thread erikmccaskey64
I use privoxy. In the user.action file i have a redirect rule and a few websites: { +redirect{s@http://@https://@} } .twitter.com .facebook.com Ok! it's working great, e.g.: if i visit any "*twitter.com" URL it gets redirected to HTTPS! But: with wireshark i can see some "OCSP" packets [

Re: how to only allow tcp on dport 443 on the OUTPUT chain?

2011-03-09 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:35:03 -0800, erikmccaskey64 wrote: > > it's a normal desktop machines iptables firewall: > > > If i want to block udp on dport 80 on the output chain, then is this enough? > i want to only allow tcp on it! > iptables -P OUTPUT DROP > iptables -A OUTPUT -o $PUBIF --dport 8

Re: Application shortcuts don't work in KDE4?

2011-03-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/03/11 16:08, S D wrote: > Hi, > > Can't get application shortcuts to work in KDE 4. > Just check that the following works for you (if it does please post as [SOLVED]) $ cp ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc_before_I_had_a_fiddle $ nano ~/.kde/share/config/kho

Re: Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-09 Thread hadi motamedi
On 3/8/11, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:21:17 +0330, hadi motamedi wrote: > >> On 3/8/11, Camaleón wrote: > >>> As root: >>> >>> route add default gw 192.168.0.1 eth0 > > (...) > >> Thank you for your reply. The Windows machine has its primary address >> set on a valid IP address and i