Re: Desktop client(Evolution, Thunderbird): Yahoo, ymail, rocketmail IMAP access

2011-08-14 Thread yudi v
I guess the status quo has not changed over the last 4 years. There are lot of hacks for different clients but was hoping yahoo would make the IMAP access freely available. Scott's suggestion to make MUA spoof a mobile device id or to use Mutt dont look like much of an improvement over Zimbra. It'

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Martin McCormick writes: […] > If I use dd to copy the 10-gig drive over to the new drive as in: > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=20M > it works when I remove the old screamer drive, change the jumper on > the new drive to Master and boot but this is not very efficient as it > wastes

Re: Rsync -- Different Outputs on No Transfer

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Hal Vaughan writes: > On Aug 14, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] >> My guess is that using -O along with -t may reduce the number of >> directories in the -v list. > Thanks. I tried with -O and without it, along with -t and no -t (in > other words all four combinations

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive [addendum]

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/08/11 13:28, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 15/08/11 12:32, Martin McCormick wrote: I have a 10-gigabyte hard drive that sounds like a 747 just before takeoff so the time has come to replace it. I replaced it with a 16-gigabyte SATA flash drive and IDE adaptor as the system it runs on is a littl

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/08/11 12:32, Martin McCormick wrote: I have a 10-gigabyte hard drive that sounds like a 747 just before takeoff so the time has come to replace it. I replaced it with a 16-gigabyte SATA flash drive and IDE adaptor as the system it runs on is a little too old to handle a large drive.

Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-14 Thread Martin McCormick
I have a 10-gigabyte hard drive that sounds like a 747 just before takeoff so the time has come to replace it. I replaced it with a 16-gigabyte SATA flash drive and IDE adaptor as the system it runs on is a little too old to handle a large drive. If I use dd to copy the 10-gig driv

Re: Rsync -- Different Outputs on No Transfer

2011-08-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Aug 14, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> Hal Vaughan writes: > > […] > >> It's not a "must fix" but when I'm scanning output files, obviously >> it's a LOT easier to verify everything went smoothly if I get a quick >> and simple output than if I have to scan a long list of dire

Re: Rsync -- Different Outputs on No Transfer

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Hal Vaughan writes: […] > It's not a "must fix" but when I'm scanning output files, obviously > it's a LOT easier to verify everything went smoothly if I get a quick > and simple output than if I have to scan a long list of directories. > It'd be nice to simplify it so I can tell at a

Re: [still OT?] Google cookie problem - was [Re: [OT] Google search default lang.]

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/08/11 05:36, Brian wrote: On Mon 15 Aug 2011 at 02:28:27 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: [This is a blatent attempt to deflect criticism away from Google] Put whatever paranoid spin on it that you want. I don't care who places the advertisements - I don't want to download or view them.

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/08/11 05:10, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: [...] NOTES: nvidia-glx-ia32 only supports GeForce 6xxx+ series NVidia cards. My Lenovo Thinkpad T61p has a Quadro FX 570M, and Google Earth works with the nvidia-glx-ia32 package installed a

Rsync -- Different Outputs on No Transfer

2011-08-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm using rsync on "normal" Debian (6.x), on two embedded systems that run what look like Debian variations (DNS-321 by D-Link and Stora by Netgear) and on OS X. On Debian, whenever I run rsync (rsync --delete -rlptv -e ssh /my/path/ myname@mybackup:Backup/, if there are no files to transfer, r

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Re: Leafnode is refusing remote connections

2011-08-14 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Camaleón! On Sunday, 14 August 2011 11:26:54 +, Camaleón wrote: > > I recently migrated my Leafnode server to a OpenVZ virtual machine. > ^^ > (...) > > VM usually provide different kind of networking options (NATed, > br

Re: jigdo-bd

2011-08-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 12, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Dejan Ribič wrote: Dne 12.8.2011 21:26, piše Paul E Condon: I am looking into downloading some iso images of squeeze. I have not done this in quite a while and I see that things have changed a lot while I wasn't looking. I think I need jigdo-cd. But what is jigdo-

Re: Leafnode is refusing remote connections

2011-08-14 Thread Jochen Spieker
Daniel Bareiro: > > I recently migrated my Leafnode server to a OpenVZ virtual machine. I > copied the /etc/news/config configuration file, but I can not get > connect from a remote client (slrn). The leafnode authors decided to make it (more or less) difficult to use leafnode from machines which

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:35:19 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: Hello Scott, > very latest. If I was of assistance it was, and I regret, inadvertent. > IRC, email, and work, combined with lack of sleep don't make for > useful support :-/ :-) Either way, I'm a happy camper. -- Regards _ /

Re: squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)

2011-08-14 Thread Itay
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, Camaleón wrote: Does the same card work on you rsqueeze system when using a card reader? I don't have a card reader. I always dumped the photos directly from the camera. And that can be the problem, the camera and not the memory card. Using a card reader will help you

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-14 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 14 August 2011 14:42, Heddle Weaver wrote: > > > On 13 August 2011 01:44, Camaleón wrote: > > After configuring the modem through XP laptop, I can now access the net > through my Debian laptop. > The connection is very glitchy - lots of 'time-outs' - but a definite > improvement. > At least I

Re: [still OT?] Google cookie problem - was [Re: [OT] Google search default lang.]

2011-08-14 Thread Brian
On Mon 15 Aug 2011 at 02:28:27 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: [This is a blatent attempt to deflect criticism away from Google] > I don't know how people cope without Noscript and AdBlock Plus - that Very easily. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Brian
On Sun 14 Aug 2011 at 15:37:34 +0100, AG wrote: > My hard ram is 3 GB (2.84 to be exact) and I gave the same amount to > swap when I initially partitioned the HDD. More than enough. > My response to Ivan crossed yours, so if there's no value and I also run > the risk of meddling with the ker

Re: Kernel messages during startup

2011-08-14 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > >From the reporter POV, I'd say it is justified to report anything we > consider is not normal or that it should not be present. I wouldn't worry > about that, devels and packagers take the appropiate steps, that is, if > there is no real bug to worry about, they will just ignore your report

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: [...] > NOTES: > > nvidia-glx-ia32 only supports GeForce 6xxx+ series NVidia cards. My Lenovo Thinkpad T61p has a Quadro FX 570M, and Google Earth works with the nvidia-glx-ia32 package installed and not without, so I guess it supports card

Re: "gconf-editor" icon missing from menu? (wheezy)

2011-08-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:41:11 +, Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > I've just realized my wheezy has lost an icon from the menu: "gconf- > editor" is not there anymore while the binary file is still present and > can be launched as expected. > > Is just me or someone else has missed this icon from

"gconf-editor" icon missing from menu? (wheezy)

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
Hello, I've just realized my wheezy has lost an icon from the menu: "gconf- editor" is not there anymore while the binary file is still present and can be launched as expected. Is just me or someone else has missed this icon from the GNOME menu? I know this utility is going to be replaced by an

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/08/11 02:43, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 15/08/11 01:41, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:20:03 +0800 H Xu �wrote: There's three way to install Nvidia:- 1. download and build their drivers, which I recommend only for

Re: [still OT?] Google cookie problem - was [Re: [OT] Google search default lang.]

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/08/11 03:36, Walter Hurry wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:28:27 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: Adblock - leave the ads on the server where they belong. Unless they pay me to view their advertising they can just go and try reproduce with themselves. Just to comment on a possible alternative

Re: [still OT?] Google cookie problem - was [Re: [OT] Google search default lang.]

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/08/11 03:36, Walter Hurry wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:28:27 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: Adblock - leave the ads on the server where they belong. Unless they pay me to view their advertising they can just go and try reproduce with themselves. Just to comment on a possible alternative

Re: [still OT?] Google cookie problem - was [Re: [OT] Google search default lang.]

2011-08-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:28:27 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Adblock - leave the ads on the server where they belong. Unless they pay > me to view their advertising they can just go and try reproduce with > themselves. Just to comment on a possible alternative approach: I don't need any Firefox p

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/08/11 03:14, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:39:53 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: Hello Scott, Mesa-utils is not needed - they just allow you to test and check your OpenGL settings - and if you don't have the basic mesa packages installed, they'll pull them in. Yes, so underst

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:39:53 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: Hello Scott, > Mesa-utils is not needed - they just allow you to test and check your > OpenGL settings - and if you don't have the basic mesa packages > installed, they'll pull them in. Yes, so understand having re-read your previous p

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 15/08/11 01:41, Brad Rogers wrote: >> >> On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:20:03 +0800 >> H Xu  wrote: >> >> Hello H, >> >>> I don't know which package could unblack googleearth, I've installed >>> mesa-utils and using nvidia proprietary drives. I

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 14/08/11 13:22, H Xu wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I've installed the latest stable google earth from the google-earth's >> official website, and installed all of the dependencies. However, when >> the google-earth starts up, it doesn't disp

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/08/11 01:41, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:20:03 +0800 H Xu wrote: Hello H, I don't know which package could unblack googleearth, I've installed mesa-utils and using nvidia proprietary drives. I don't know how to figure out what the package is. Could anyone offer me some hel

Re: network devices have vanished on Dell D600

2011-08-14 Thread Mark Grieveson
I submitted a bug report on this to the Debian developer for the kernel image, who responded telling me that the hardware was likely loose and simply needed to be reseated. So, I took the laptop apart, and put it back together again, making sure everything fitted nice and snug. And, good news, it

Re: [still OT?] Google cookie problem - was [Re: [OT] Google search default lang.]

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/08/11 01:32, � wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:39:05 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 14/08/11 23:31, � wrote: ^ You're still with the black diamond issue :-P Yes it's a consequence of me deciding that not using UTF-8 was more problem than using it - occasionally I

SOLVED: System crash when swithing to text-console

2011-08-14 Thread Martin Lorenz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It WAS the KernelModeSet ... The moment I got the i915 driver to properly initialize it's framebuffer during bootup everything was fine again. Problem was, that the i915 driver was in the initramfs but did not correctly initialize the console-framebu

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 6:51 AM, AG wrote: > Hey list > > Just a quick query about releasing swap space.  On occasion according to > Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes gets > used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for usenet. > > Is there any val

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Camaleón writes: […] > So, who is going to say that a "/swap" partition is going to be > needed with 8 GiB of RAM? I wouldn't, I just thought kernel makes > use of all of the available resources are allocates them to get the > best performance. Meaning: if you have available resourc

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> AG writes: > On 14/08/11 14:35, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > AG writes: […] > I have recently switched to Xfce4 on Stable from Gnome because the > latter was quite a memory hog and seemed to retain pages in swap > until I logged/ rebooted. The pages that stay longer in the

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:20:03 +0800 H Xu wrote: Hello H, > I don't know which package could unblack googleearth, I've installed > mesa-utils and using nvidia proprietary drives. I don't know how to > figure out what the package is. Could anyone offer me some help? mesa-utils and/or dependencie

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/08/11 13:22, H Xu wrote: Hello, I've installed the latest stable google earth from the google-earth's official website, and installed all of the dependencies. However, when the google-earth starts up, it doesn't display the earth, but an empty black region. Despite this black region, other

Re: [still OT?] Google cookie problem - was [Re: [OT] Google search default lang.]

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:39:05 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 14/08/11 23:31, � wrote: ^ You're still with the black diamond issue :-P >> On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:01:55 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> Google has used cookies since day one. >> >> Not as agressively as it is d

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:37:34 +0100, AG wrote: > On 14/08/11 15:27, Camaleón wrote: >> What's your amount of physical ram? >> >> > My hard ram is 3 GB (2.84 to be exact) and I gave the same amount to > swap when I initially partitioned the HDD. That's a fair amount of ram... I wonder why your sy

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread AG
On 14/08/11 15:27, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:51:07 +0100, AG wrote: Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for usenet

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread AG
On 14/08/11 14:35, Ivan Shmakov wrote: AG writes: > Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to > Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes > gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for > usenet. > Is

Re: [still OT?] Google cookie problem - was [Re: [OT] Google search default lang.]

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/08/11 23:31, � wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:01:55 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 14/08/11 19:20, � wrote: On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:10:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Google is now forcing their users to use cookies Google has used cookies since day one. No

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:51:07 +0100, AG wrote: > Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to > Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes > gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for > usenet. What's your amount of physi

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread H Xu
On 2011/8/14 14:07, Scott Ferguson wrote: Either method will give you a black screen with the proprietary Nvidia drivers, unless the linux OpenGL library is also installed (from experience). If you have Nvidia proprietary drives try installing mesa-utils and see if they require anything else inst

Re: Desktop client(Evolution, Thunderbird): Yahoo, ymail, rocketmail IMAP access

2011-08-14 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 05:05:46PM +1000, yudi v wrote: > > I would like to move away from Zimbra (it's not Yahoo owned anymore), and was > curious if any other desktop clients could access Yahoo mail. It works well enough with Mutt. Yahoo does tend to disconnect the IMAP session if I dawdle. It

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/08/11 22:52, AG wrote: On 14/08/11 07:07, Scott Ferguson wrote: Either method will give you a black screen with the proprietary Nvidia drivers, unless the linux OpenGL library is also installed (from experience). If you have Nvidia proprietary drives try installing mesa-utils and see if

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> AG writes: > Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to > Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes > gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for > usenet. > Is there any value/ harm in releasing this spac

Re: [still OT?] Google cookie problem - was [Re: [OT] Google search default lang.]

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:01:55 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 14/08/11 19:20, � wrote: >> On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:10:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> Camaleón wrote: >> >> (...) >> Google is now forcing their users to use cookies > > Google has used cookies since day one. Not as agre

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread AG
On 14/08/11 07:07, Scott Ferguson wrote: Either method will give you a black screen with the proprietary Nvidia drivers, unless the linux OpenGL library is also installed (from experience). If you have Nvidia proprietary drives try installing mesa-utils and see if they require anything else

[Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread AG
Hey list Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for usenet. Is there any value/ harm in releasing this space using something lik

Re: [still OT?] Google cookie problem - was [Re: [OT] Google search default lang.]

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/08/11 19:20, � wrote: On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:10:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Google is now forcing their users to use cookies Google has used cookies since day one. They're not needed for searching. Edit => Preferences => Privacy => In the history section us

Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/06/11 01:55, 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.com in English' Apparentl

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-14 Thread Dion Kant
On 08/14/2011 01:23 PM, Dion Kant wrote: > Forget > about the previous results, they will be wrong because of libgcc stream > buffering and I did not check how these buffers are actually written to > kernel space. libgcc uses writev to write out an array of buffers to kernel space User bs Actual

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:21:09 -0400 Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello Patrick, > In my case, what fixed that was installation of nvidia-glx-ia32. That was the one that worked for me, too. If you hadn't said anything, I wouldn't have known where to look next. Thanks. -- Regards _ / )

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/14/2011 2:14 AM, Dion Kant wrote: > On 08/13/2011 03:55 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> My explanation to you wasn't fully correct. I confused specifying no >> block size with specifying an insanely large block size. The other post >> I was referring to dealt with people using a 1GB (or larger)

Re: Installing firmware not available in the kernel

2011-08-14 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 14:25 +1000, yudi v wrote: > I plan to install nvidia's driver and I had a problem before where every time > after a kernel update (this was under Ubuntu), nvidia driver would break. I > don't want to be in the same situation again. > > Once I setup the system I don't want

Re: Leafnode is refusing remote connections

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:13:09 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > I recently migrated my Leafnode server to a OpenVZ virtual machine. ^^ (...) VM usually provide different kind of networking options (NATed, bridged, host-only...) that

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-14 Thread Dion Kant
On 08/14/2011 09:14 AM, Dion Kant wrote: > The good and problematic block sizes do not really coincide with the > ones I observe with dd, but the odd behaviour is there. When testing on Linux kernel 2.6.37.6-0.5-xen, I found that a sync() call did not give any guarantee that the buffers are actuall

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:22 PM, H Xu wrote: > Hello, > > I've installed the latest stable google earth from the google-earth's > official website, and installed all of the dependencies. However, when the > google-earth starts up, it doesn't display the earth, but an empty black > region. Despite

Re: squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-08-13 a las 21:54 +0300, Itay escribió: (resending to the list) > On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Does it happen when copying the files using GUI-based tools (like >> nautilus or dolphin) or it also happens when you use MC or console? > > It happens using command line. Oops, t

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:22:27 +0800, H Xu wrote: > I've installed the latest stable google earth from the google-earth's > official website, and installed all of the dependencies. However, when > the google-earth starts up, it doesn't display the earth, but an empty > black region. Despite this bla

Re: Installing firmware not available in the kernel

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:25:51 +1000, yudi v wrote: >> The card seems detected so why not installing the suggested firmware >> (review the mentioned doc for instructions on how to do this) and check >> if that works? :-? >> >> >> I am not sure how to do this. There has to be some instructions in t

Re: squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:59:20 +0300, Itay wrote: > On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Camaleón wrote: > > >>> Using both cards, same camera and connection, on another machine + >>> lenny doesn't produce this effect either. >> >> Does the same card work on you rsqueeze system when using a card >> reader? >> >>

Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:28:14 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:39:18 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Google is now forcing their users to use cookies > > Not relevant to the original problem I know, but I use > > Yep, I know there are many searc

Re: [still OT?] Google cookie problem - was [Re: [OT] Google search default lang.]

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:10:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Google is now forcing their users to use cookies > > IS that your experience for http://www.google.com or whatever one has to > do to access gmail? For their search engine, yes. (as an aside comment, I also

Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src

2011-08-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List On 13/08/11 08:24, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-08-12 23:54 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: If you don't want to do that, use a bind mount rather than a symlink for /usr/src. Then the /usr/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 symlink will work (but /usr/local/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 will not). In o

Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src

2011-08-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
hello List: On 13/08/11 08:13, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-08-12 09:29 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 12/08/11 08:08, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-08-11 21:10 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On my Debian (Wheezy) boxes, the /usr/src is a link to /usr/local/src , /usr and /usr/local being mounted

Re: removing dummy package

2011-08-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-08-12 15:51:44 +0200, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > When I want to remove the dummy dhcp3 package, the real isc package also > gets removed. Probably because the real package was automatically installed (via the transition). You should mark it as manually installed first. -- Vincent Lefèvre -

Re: Desktop client(Evolution, Thunderbird): Yahoo, ymail, rocketmail IMAP access

2011-08-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/08/11 17:05, yudi v wrote: For Yahoo the answer is yes, and no. Yahoo provide IMAP access but try and restrict it to mobile devices that won't run their Zimbra client. You'll have to make your MUA spoof a mobile device id - and you'll be on a treadmill... imap.mail.yah

Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Scott Ferguson writes: […] > To the best of my knowledge Google use geolocation to rank the > physical location of servers in the search results - but *not* > language. Default language is determined by your choice of Iceweasel > language packs, then by system language settings.

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-14 Thread Dion Kant
On 08/13/2011 03:55 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > My explanation to you wasn't fully correct. I confused specifying no > block size with specifying an insanely large block size. The other post > I was referring to dealt with people using a 1GB (or larger) block size > because it made the math easier

Re: Desktop client(Evolution, Thunderbird): Yahoo, ymail, rocketmail IMAP access

2011-08-14 Thread yudi v
> For Yahoo the answer is yes, and no. Yahoo provide IMAP access but try and > restrict it to mobile devices that won't run their Zimbra client. You'll > have to make your MUA spoof a mobile device id - and you'll be on a > treadmill... > > imap.mail.yahoo.com; SSL – port 993 > > My question was sp