Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/06/11 16:22, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >>> To give a silly example, a file named "-rf *" or "rm -rf *" >> >> I defy you to create a file with those name ;-p >> NOTE: I've tried. No point in it just being an untested opinion. > > $ echo test > * > bash: *: ambiguous redirect > > $ ech

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/06/11 15:56, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/25/11 at 03:36pm, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 25/06/11 11:27, Doug wrote: >>> On 06/24/2011 08:16 PM, lee wrote: Scott Ferguson writes: >> >> > > What happens when you try touch touch a file with a special character? My apologies - I

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 08:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > To give a silly example, a file named "-rf *" or "rm -rf *" > > > > I defy you to create a file with those name ;-p > > NOTE: I've tried. No point in it just being an untested opinion. > > $ echo test > * > bash: *: ambiguous r

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > To give a silly example, a file named "-rf *" or "rm -rf *" > > I defy you to create a file with those name ;-p > NOTE: I've tried. No point in it just being an untested opinion. $ echo test > * bash: *: ambiguous redirect $ echo test > \* $ ls * Desktop Downloads hdsp.1 Any id

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/06/11 15:56, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/25/11 at 03:36pm, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 25/06/11 11:27, Doug wrote: >>> On 06/24/2011 08:16 PM, lee wrote: Scott Ferguson writes: >> >> >> > > Maybe you should reply to one of the troubleshooting responses > instead of the phil

Re: posting (was: Threading)

2011-06-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/06/11 15:54, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Test reply from link in archive at: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg01787.html > > I want to see if the reply ends up in the thread properly, I think it > should as the html link from the online archive is this: > > > href="mail

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/06/11 15:53, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/25/11 at 03:20pm, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 25/06/11 10:16, lee wrote: >>> Scott Ferguson writes: >>> >>> >>> To give a silly example, a file named "-rf *" or "rm -rf *" >> >> I defy you to create a file with those name ;-p >> NOTE: I've tri

Re: posting

2011-06-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: On Jun 22, 2011, at 7:01 AM, lee wrote: Hm, I wonder why anyone is going to the lengths of replying to digest messages rather than just subscribing to the list ... So they don't need to get hundreds of separate messages?! Most people don't treat a digest as separat

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/25/11 at 03:36pm, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 25/06/11 11:27, Doug wrote: > > On 06/24/2011 08:16 PM, lee wrote: > >> Scott Ferguson writes: > >> > > > > >> > >> > > Probably the best reason is if you *ever* share files, or send one to > > someone else, he/she is as likely as not not to ha

Re: Re: posting (was: Threading)

2011-06-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Test reply from link in archive at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg01787.html I want to see if the reply ends up in the thread properly, I think it should as the html link from the online archive is this: href="mailto:debian-user@lists.debian.org?In-Reply-To=<8db18074-5ae4-

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/25/11 at 03:20pm, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 25/06/11 10:16, lee wrote: > > Scott Ferguson writes: > > > >> I don't think the "no white spaces" and "no accented characters" > >> "rule" is valid in the 21st century. But if some one can put up an > >> authoritative, and recent, reason I'll re

Re: Ripping CD

2011-06-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> email message attachment > > Forwarded Message > > From: T o n g > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Ripping CD > > Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 02:23:45 + (UTC) > > > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:48:13 +0200, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > > > > asunder is pretty

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/06/11 11:27, Doug wrote: > On 06/24/2011 08:16 PM, lee wrote: >> Scott Ferguson writes: >> >> >> > Probably the best reason is if you *ever* share files, or send one to > someone else, he/she is as likely as not not to have the capability of > inputting the accented character. --doug I

Re: virtualbox cannot see USB anymore

2011-06-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/06/11 11:19, H.S. wrote: > Hello. > > I am running an updating Testing box. For some reasons, I had to use > Windows 7 and installed Virtualbox. > > First, I tried the virtualbox-ose from Debian repos until I realized it > does not support USB. Next, I discovered I can install Virtualbox fr

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/06/11 10:16, lee wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> I don't think the "no white spaces" and "no accented characters" >> "rule" is valid in the 21st century. But if some one can put up an >> authoritative, and recent, reason I'll reconsider. > > Since (unfortunately) there isn't anything

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/06/11 08:05, David Jardine wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 01:34:54AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> I don't think the "no white spaces" and "no accented characters" "rule" >> is valid in the 21st century. But if some one can put up an >> authoritative, and recent, reason I'

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/06/11 08:05, David Jardine wrote: >$ mkdir newdir; cd newdir >$ touch 'one space' 'and two spaces' >$ for jim in *; do echo $jim; done >and two spaces >one space > > So far, so good, but: > >$ for jim in `ls`; do echo $jim; done >and >two >spaces >one

Re: Unread bug reports ?

2011-06-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/06/11 03:36, Vecu BOSSEUR wrote: > Hi, > > It is ~a week~ or more now that I filed two bug reports. > > - Bug #630237 related to FUSE > ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630237 ) > - Bug #630903 related to FUSECOMPRESS > ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepor

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/06/11 06:51, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 21:35:16 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Having switched to grub2 recently, I do that as well. But I suspect >> most people will be content with the simpler configuration options >> offered by editing /etc/default/grub and running update-gru

Re: Ripping CD

2011-06-24 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 02:23:45 +, T o n g wrote: > I gave asunder a whirl but somehow it always freeze on me. It works fine now -- I shouldn't have messed with the proxy setting. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread consul tores
2011/6/24 Brian : > On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 21:35:16 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Having switched to grub2 recently, I do that as well.  But I suspect >> most people will be content with the simpler configuration options >> offered by editing /etc/default/grub and running update-grub. > > That's m

Re: Threading

2011-06-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/06/11 02:38, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:04:24 +1000 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > ... > >> If someone feels the need to subscribe to the "digest" version - which >> is not one "bit" smaller than all the individual messages - it's no > > It's not? Aren't many of the many headers

Re: virtualbox cannot see USB anymore

2011-06-24 Thread wolf python london
On 25 June 2011 09:19, H.S. wrote: > Hello. > > I am running an updating Testing box. For some reasons, I had to use > Windows 7 and installed Virtualbox. > > First, I tried the virtualbox-ose from Debian repos until I realized it > does not support USB. Next, I discovered I can install Virtualbox

Re: virtualbox cannot see USB anymore

2011-06-24 Thread Steve Kleene
At 2011-06-25 01:19:03, H.S. wrote: > I am running an updating Testing box. ... In any case, my USB support is now > gone. I also have testing and vbox and have sometimes been able to restore USB by changing a line in my xpvm.vbox file. The line that works is this: If "false" gets chan

Re: Ripping CD

2011-06-24 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:48:13 +0200, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > asunder is pretty nice for the ripping part of your request (lightweight > and GTK-based) Thanks Andreas, I gave asunder a whirl but somehow it always freeze on me. I guess it might be because that I'm using an old version, v1.9.3-

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Doug
On 06/24/2011 08:16 PM, lee wrote: Scott Ferguson writes: I don't think the "no white spaces" and "no accented characters" "rule" is valid in the 21st century. But if some one can put up an authoritative, and recent, reason I'll reconsider. Since (unfortunately) there isn't anything preventin

virtualbox cannot see USB anymore

2011-06-24 Thread H.S.
Hello. I am running an updating Testing box. For some reasons, I had to use Windows 7 and installed Virtualbox. First, I tried the virtualbox-ose from Debian repos until I realized it does not support USB. Next, I discovered I can install Virtualbox from Oracle to get USB support (after installin

Re: How to make X11 server listen to TCP connections?

2011-06-24 Thread lee
Urs Thuermann writes: > I use Gnome and gdm3 for login. I want my X11 server to listen for > TCP connections on port 6000 from remote machines. But I haven't > found anything in the documentation of gdm3 and in gdm's config files. The default for the X server in Debian is not to listen to netw

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread lee
Scott Ferguson writes: > I don't think the "no white spaces" and "no accented characters" > "rule" is valid in the 21st century. But if some one can put up an > authoritative, and recent, reason I'll reconsider. Since (unfortunately) there isn't anything preventing users from creating files with

Re: Ripping CD

2011-06-24 Thread Dan
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Excerpts from T o n g's message of 2011-06-23 18:08:36 +0200: >> Hi, >> >> I'm wondering what's the proper tools for ripping/copying CDs. >> >> Sorry to bring up an "old" topic again, but I felt that a popular tools 3 >> or 5 years ago m

Re: How do I unlock and/or remove a locked volume?

2011-06-24 Thread Derek Dongray
OK. I decided this is probably impossible (or at least very difficult) since no-one replied or even commented after over 12 hours, so I too the alternative roure of creating a new Volume Group, copying and deleting (if possible) all the Logical Volumes in the 'corrupt' VG, rebooting using the new V

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:51:14PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 21:35:16 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > Having switched to grub2 recently, I do that as well. But I suspect > > most people will be content with the simpler configuration options > > offered by editing /etc/default/g

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 01:34:54AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > [...] > > I don't think the "no white spaces" and "no accented characters" "rule" > is valid in the 21st century. But if some one can put up an > authoritative, and recent, reason I'll reconsider. > You won't get anything auth

Re: How to install with encrypted root?

2011-06-24 Thread Christian Jaeger
> So, yes, it is possible, but not easy. :) That's a different issue. (I can confirm that the first time I used the new installer with LVM+luks, me too was a bit puzzled at first, but that's unrelated to the bug that I've run into here, which AFAICT is not something that can be avoided by using t

How to make X11 server listen to TCP connections?

2011-06-24 Thread Urs Thuermann
I use Gnome and gdm3 for login. I want my X11 server to listen for TCP connections on port 6000 from remote machines. But I haven't found anything in the documentation of gdm3 and in gdm's config files. urs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

How can I select the locale for a Gnome seesion?

2011-06-24 Thread Urs Thuermann
When I installed Debian on my laptop I chose US English as language and selected a couple of locales to generate. When I login using gdm3, everything is English. But my wife prefers German. I know I can run programs from the shell like LANG=de_DE foo but how can I change the language for a whole

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 21:35:16 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Having switched to grub2 recently, I do that as well. But I suspect > most people will be content with the simpler configuration options > offered by editing /etc/default/grub and running update-grub. That's me! Although I do have a lit

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2011-06-24 Thread annoncezvous . biz65
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Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 19:13:27 +, Camaleón wrote: > Nope, that's a GRUB's statement not a Debian's one :-) You'll have to make do with this: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/GRUB2asDefault > There are many packages that are not being "actively" developed but still > maintained upstream

Re: How to install with encrypted root?

2011-06-24 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:15:10 -0400 Christian Jaeger wrote: >See my other reply, it seems pretty clear that there is a bug in the >debian installer (assuming that the installer is *meant* to support >installing a system with encrypted root and that the result boots). >Glad it worked for you; pleas

Re: Re: Screensaver/power management that is able to recognise videos

2011-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
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Re: Re: USB sound card

2011-06-24 Thread Freeman
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Re: Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

2011-06-24 Thread Freeman
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Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-24 19:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > While menu.lst has some lines, grub.cfg has tons of lines and using > GRUB2 with comfort, we need to edit grub.cfg manually ... Having switched to grub2 recently, I do that as well. But I suspect most people will be content with the simpler config

Re: Adobe flash sound issues

2011-06-24 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:50:13 +0100 Wolodja Wentland wrote: >$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so /usr/bin/iceweasel >$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so /usr/bin/chromium Thanks for this! I noticed some weird sound artifacts in flash videos, but didn't have the time to i

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:18:27 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 17:47:44 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> That would be fine... if there was such a public statement. This is the >> first time I read that a legacy piece of software is out just because >> of its age because it still receives bu

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 17:47:44 +, Camaleón wrote: > That would be fine... if there was such a public statement. This is the > first time I read that a legacy piece of software is out just because of > its age because it still receives bugfixes. Will this do (The GRUB Development section)?

Re: Threading

2011-06-24 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:04:24 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: ... > If someone feels the need to subscribe to the "digest" version - which > is not one "bit" smaller than all the individual messages - it's no It's not? Aren't many of the many headers not repeated per each digest element? Celejar --

Re: Lenovo T410 modem difficulties

2011-06-24 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:47:18 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:21:44 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Camaleón wrote: ... > >> Uh? A plain USB or a PCMCIA/Smart PC card (being both hardware based > >> modems) will do the job quite well. An

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2011-06-24 Thread Jarek Buczyński
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Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
"I can live without the pretty background pictures(s)" Hehe ;). +1, resp. I won't call those pictures pretty :D. GRUB2 is a PITA, but as mentioned before, very entertaining, as long as you are jobless and has got more time as usual :D. While menu.lst has some lines, grub.cfg has tons of lines an

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:49:27 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 24 June 2011 18:33:02 Glenn English wrote: >> I can live without the pretty background pictures(s)... > > I _prefer_ to live without the background pictures. ;-) He, he... the first thing I did as soon as I saw my poor GRUB's menu with

Re: Installing some packages needs not original DVD

2011-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:35:34 +0200, Daniel Skowroński wrote: > I am using Debian 6 x86_64 on netbook (Acer AOD255 - Intel Atom N450 > 1.66 GHz with HT & 2GB RAM). In Software Center there are some packages > that needs DVD to install. I've never used Software Center before (to be sincere, dunno

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > Yeepi! I no longer feel like a dinosaur, now I'm in cool's club 8-) Welcome to the club ;). Perhaps you and I should share the same doctor, when we get our first tendonitis :D. Of course, my new mouse has much better buttons, regarding to debouncing, but I'm not that happy as you seems to b

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:37:04 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 15:18:08 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> No? Then why removing it from the installer? :-? > > There is no further upstream development of it. Debian will not maintain > it. It's dead. So GRUB2 became a release goal for Squeeze.

Re: posting

2011-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:11:47 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi Camaleón :) > >> Have you considered using NNTP? > > No, I need to read the Wiki > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_News_Transfer_Protocol since I > never heard of those 4 letters before :D. Then read, read... you'll see how good

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Lisi
On Friday 24 June 2011 18:33:02 Glenn English wrote: > I can live without the pretty background pictures(s)... I _prefer_ to live without the background pictures. ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Installing some packages needs not original DVD

2011-06-24 Thread Lisi
On Friday 24 June 2011 18:35:34 Daniel Skowroński wrote: > Hello, > I am using Debian 6 x86_64 on netbook (Acer AOD255 - Intel Atom N450 1.66 > GHz with HT & 2GB RAM). In Software Center there are some packages that > needs DVD to install. When I was trying to install Chromium there is alert > like

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> I mean, nothing that could not be solved by manually > editing the "menu.lst" > I'm editing grub.cfg manually ;). Doing that GRUB2 is ok too, at least for my needs. But indeed, e.g. sub-menus aren't supported by all versions of GRUB2. If you need to be on the safe side, avoid the usage

Installing some packages needs not original DVD

2011-06-24 Thread Daniel Skowroński
Hello, I am using Debian 6 x86_64 on netbook (Acer AOD255 - Intel Atom N450 1.66 GHz with HT & 2GB RAM). In Software Center there are some packages that needs DVD to install. When I was trying to install Chromium there is alert like that (I'm translating from polish): "CD/DVD 'Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.

Unread bug reports ?

2011-06-24 Thread Vecu BOSSEUR
Hi, It is ~a week~ or more now that I filed two bug reports. - Bug #630237 related to FUSE ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630237 ) - Bug #630903 related to FUSECOMPRESS ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630903 ) I wondered if any single people cau

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Glenn English
On Jun 24, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Camaleón wrote: > When I installed Squeeze, back five months ago when still tagged as > "testing", it was indeed available, I mean, the installer asked what to > put, GRUB legacy or GRUB2. Are you sure that now Squeeze installer has > removed that option? :-? Yup;

Re: [Ask] My screen suddenly got froze

2011-06-24 Thread Morning Star
Thanks Camaleón. :) On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:18:32 -0400, Morning Star wrote: > > > I've bought a cheap graphic card (ATI Radeon 9250 SE) and it fixed > > everything. The old graphic card (GeForce 6600LE) already broken I > > think. I don't have a

Re: Screensaver/power management that is able to recognise videos

2011-06-24 Thread Lisi
On Friday 24 June 2011 11:19:03 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > There still is the > issue, regarding to replies, when other people need help and I should be > able to help them. The issue is worth solving, because if you break the thread the OP may not see your reply, and your time would be wasted. And,

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect -solved

2011-06-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 16:16:47 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > 02:02.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 > 802.11abg NIC [168c:1014] (rev 01) According to the Debian wiki ath5k is the driver for an AR5212. It also appears your kernel knew this. Not being able to load

Re: posting

2011-06-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Camaleón :) > Have you considered using NNTP? No, I need to read the Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_News_Transfer_Protocol since I never heard of those 4 letters before :D. Thanx, Ralf PS: Please carbon copy ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 15:18:08 +, Camaleón wrote: > No? Then why removing it from the installer? :-? There is no further upstream development of it. Debian will not maintain it. It's dead. So GRUB2 became a release goal for Squeeze. > Oh, sure. > > But I like Debian precisely for those thi

Re: Frequent weezy freezes on amd64 architecture (possibly KDE-related)?

2011-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:06:01 +0300, Jason Filippou wrote: > I have just completed a fresh installation of debian wheezy, > architecture amd64, with KDE included and I've been experiencing > frequent freezes of the OS. At seemingly random intervals, all my apps > seem to stop, and the key combinati

Re: Screensaver/power management that is able to recognise videos

2011-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:14:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > is there a screensaver and/or power management able to recognise videos? > A screensaver and power management is useful for me, since I use a CRT > monitor. 'Burn in' and high load are issues for CRT monitors OTOH they > are needed for some

Re: Re: Screensaver/power management that is able to recognise videos

2011-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110624_094716, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > -- > 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/20110624154716.ga23...@cmpq.lan.gnu > Sorry for the noise. I was

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:21:56 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/09/2011 06:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:21:23 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: (...) >>> Not the Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse. It's just... a plain old, >>> boring standard sized mouse. >>> >>> http://www.amazon.com/Mi

Re: Re: Screensaver/power management that is able to recognise videos

2011-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
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Re: Re: Screensaver/power management that is able to recognise videos

2011-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
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Re: Re: Screensaver/power management that is able to recognise videos

2011-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
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Re: Re: Screensaver/power management that is able to recognise videos

2011-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
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Re: Re: Screensaver/power management that is able to recognise videos

2011-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
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Re: Re: Screensaver/power management that is able to recognise videos

2011-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
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Re: Re: Screensaver/power management that is able to recognise videos

2011-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
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Re: Re: Screensaver/power management that is able to recognise videos

2011-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
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Language Skills for Business Professionals

2011-06-24 Thread Hadijah Sahid
Enhancing Business English Monday, 19th September 2011, 9.00am - 5.00pm, Prince Hotel & Residence Kuala Lumpur A good command of the English language verbal and written is particularly important for those working as a secretary or personal/administrative assistant in an English-speaking environ

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/06/11 20:05, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi, > > I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't > create/write filenames containing accented chars, especially when > copying music from my amarok collection (as you can guess a lor of > brazilian, french and italian music has

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:42:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Yesterday I had to perform an new install with the latest wheezy >> snapshot (weekly CD#1 image). >> >> 1/ I could only get grub-pc, no more questions about installing GRUB >> legacy or sele

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:08:34 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 23 Jun 2011 at 15:42:43 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Point 1/ worries me a bit, because GRUB2 was not going to be my >> preferred option for wheezy... is there any chance to get GRUB legacy >> at install time or that option won't be present

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect -solved

2011-06-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Jun 2011, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 23 iun 11, 12:06:54, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > Thanks, Philipp - you were right and gave me the clue. There are two > > modules available, ath5k and ath9k. I was using ath5k because that is > > what the docs talk about, but when I changed to a

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:07:10 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > On Jun 23, 2011, at 9:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Yesterday I had to perform an new install with the latest wheezy >> snapshot (weekly CD#1 image). >> >> Some thoughs while dealing with the expert install... >> >> 1/ I could only get gr

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread briand
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:51:11 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:05:17 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't > > create/write filenames containing accented chars, especially when > > copying music from my amarok coll

Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

2011-06-24 Thread Mike Castle
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Using Google search always returns my results in Spanish because Google has > figured out that my ISP is in a Spanish speaking country. But I want the > results in US Eglish and always have to do an extra mouse click on > 'Google.co

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread lee
Raffaele Morelli writes: > 2011/6/24 lee > >> Raffaele Morelli writes: >> >> > I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't >> create/write >> > filenames containing accented chars, especially when copying music from >> my >> > amarok collection (as you can guess a lor of bra

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:05:17 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't > create/write filenames containing accented chars, especially when > copying music from my amarok collection (as you can guess a lor of > brazilian, french and italian mus

Re: [Ask] My screen suddenly got froze

2011-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:18:32 -0400, Morning Star wrote: > I've bought a cheap graphic card (ATI Radeon 9250 SE) and it fixed > everything. The old graphic card (GeForce 6600LE) already broken I > think. I don't have any problem with my display again. I figured it out > a week ago. I'm sorry I was

Re: which iso for vm guest on win 7 64 bit

2011-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:01:08 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:15:53 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >>> The only netinst iso I see that has anything to indicate it is 64 bit >>> is named amd64. So when a PC is running Intel64, is there a 64 bit >>> ISO for

Re: posting

2011-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:44:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > If I would receive all mailing lists NOT as digest it would be 800 mails > a day. I can filter as soon as I receive mails, but if I just don't > retrieve mails for one day, I get issues with too many mails on my > providers server. (...)

Re: "Architecture not supported" problem

2011-06-24 Thread Nacer Adamou Saidou
Le 24/06/2011 11:13, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Vi, 24 iun 11, 10:12:45, Nacer Adamou Saidou wrote: Hi, I am trying to install ubuntu client with pxe + preseed via apt-cacher-ng apt proxy. But I always have this "Architecture not supported" error message, stating that " The specified Ubuntu a

Re: Lenovo T410 modem difficulties

2011-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:21:44 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Camaleón wrote: >> > You will have to buy a driver from Linuxant if you want that thing to >> > work. >> >> Why? Is the free version of their software not working at all? :-? > > Can you actually use 1

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/6/24 lee > Raffaele Morelli writes: > > > I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't > create/write > > filenames containing accented chars, especially when copying music from > my > > amarok collection (as you can guess a lor of brazilian, french and > > italian music

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread lee
Raffaele Morelli writes: > I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't create/write > filenames containing accented chars, especially when copying music from my > amarok collection (as you can guess a lor of brazilian, french and > italian music has plenty of accented chars in

Re: Screensaver/power management that is able to recognise videos

2011-06-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 13:07 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 24 iun 11, 09:26:17, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > I noticed that issue when watching YouTube, but for YouTube it isn't > > important for me. It will become important as soon as I need to sync > > video and audio for productions, e.g.

How do I unlock and/or remove a locked volume?

2011-06-24 Thread Derek Dongray
I recently decided to move a volume group off of a mixed device (SATA+USB) md raid mirror after encountering the "bio too big" bug (which apparently is likely to cause data corruption, but is classified as WONTFIX! See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498162 or http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bio+t

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/6/24 Andrei POPESCU > On Vi, 24 iun 11, 12:05:17, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't > create/write > > filenames containing accented chars, especially when copying music from > my > > amarok collection (as you can guess a

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi, > > I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't > create/write filenames containing accented chars, especially when > copying music from my amarok collection (as you can guess a lor of > brazilian, french and italian music has plenty of accented cha

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