Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

On 16 August 2011 22:12, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:18:01 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: > > > On 16 August 2011 05:51, Camaleón wrote: > > >> How about a simple "wget 192.168.1.254"? > >> > >> > > weaver@Bandit:~$ su > > Password: > > Bandit:/home/weaver# wget 192.168.1.254 --2011-08

how can I obtain the old fglrx_drv.so?

Hi, can I use the old fglrx_drv.so installed before, such as the squeeze one, to substitute the new one, /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so, installed in wheezy? how can I obtain the old one if I don't want to install the whole. Thanks, -- Best Regards, lina -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: update problem

libgnutlsxx26 depends on libgnutls26 (= 2.10.5-3) On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:08 PM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > when I tried to update, it showed me something like: > > libgnutlsxx26 removed (configs remain) ;  install (was: install).  Extra > > # apt-get install libgnutlsxx2 > Reading package lists...

Re: how to examine ssh problem

> Alan Chandler writes: > On 04/08/11 09:15, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > Alan Chandler writes: >>> (I actually have loads of these in my config file for all different >>> combinations of username and host - I also tend to make different >>> key pairs for each host which is why I am spe

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

On 16 August 2011 22:12, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:18:01 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: > > > On 16 August 2011 05:51, Camaleón wrote: > > >> How about a simple "wget 192.168.1.254"? > >> > >> > > weaver@Bandit:~$ su > > Password: > > Bandit:/home/weaver# wget 192.168.1.254 --2011-08

Re: 2TB file system

2011/8/17 Pete Orrall : >> BTW: >> Didn't Hitachi used to be IBM? > > I believe IBM sold Hitachi their hard drive business. > >> I am just asking because I didn't have >> the best experience with IBM drives, had two of them and they both broke >> within 18 months(lucky for me I had quaranty for the

Re: In Debian 6 KDE, if you have "folder view activity", can the files be thumb-nailed on the desktop

OK found it ... or rather bumped into it, Cheers Dave On 17 August 2011 21:28, dave selby wrote: > In Debian 6 KDE, if you have "folder view activity", sorry can't get > on with the default desktop containment, can the files be thumb-nailed > on the desktop ie a mini PDF image rather than a ge

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 17/08/11 12:15, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> and you need to use the "-x" setting to avoid descending to other >> partitions. > > What do you mean?? > > That sounds very bad - how come I've never noticed this happening? You probably don

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

On 17/08/11 12:15, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: > >> 4. use rsync to copy the files. eg.:- # rsync -azr /media/source0/ >> /media/dest0 [rinse and repeat until all partitions copied] > > Rsync does not replicate SELinux settings. -X, --xat

Re: pdfedit

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:03:20 -0400 Rick Pasotto dijo: >I guess I'm too stupid to figure it out. > >I have a pdf document that I would like to add two lines of text to >(different positions, different fonts). Under the 'Page' menu I see an >icon for adding text but it is greyed out. I don't see th

Re: Debian balloons

Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote: Op Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:46:00 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom schreef: Hi, First time I've noticed this: when I select www.debian.org, I get floating balloons on the right side of the page. At the expense of extra CPU of course. Or is it a rootkit? Hugo See: http://www.

Re: Debian balloons

Sharon Kimble wrote: On 18 August 2011 00:46, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, First time I've noticed this: when I select www.debian.org, I get floating balloons on the right side of the page. At the expense of extra CPU of course. Or is it a rootkit? Hugo Where are you seeing this, i.e. what br

Re: Debian balloons

Op Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:46:00 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom schreef: > Hi, > > First time I've noticed this: when I select www.debian.org, I get > floating balloons on the right side of the page. At the expense of > extra CPU of course. > Or is it a rootkit? > > Hugo > > See: http://www.debian.org/Ne

Re: Debian balloons

On 18 August 2011 00:46, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > First time I've noticed this: when I select www.debian.org, I get floating > balloons on the right side of the page. At the expense of extra CPU of > course. > Or is it a rootkit? > > Hugo > Where are you seeing this, i.e. what browser are

Debian balloons

Hi, First time I've noticed this: when I select www.debian.org, I get floating balloons on the right side of the page. At the expense of extra CPU of course. Or is it a rootkit? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: BASH completing directories like files

On 08/17/2011 01:35 AM, Facundo Aguirre wrote: I found this https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22807 There are several comments saying that they solved removing and reinstalling bash-completion. Thanks a lot. Sorry I didn't find that on my own. I had to purge bash-completion and then delete its con

pdfedit

I guess I'm too stupid to figure it out. I have a pdf document that I would like to add two lines of text to (different positions, different fonts). Under the 'Page' menu I see an icon for adding text but it is greyed out. I don't see that icon anywhere else on the screen. The so-called 'Help' is

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

On 16 August 2011 22:12, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:18:01 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: > > > On 16 August 2011 05:51, Camaleón wrote: > > >> How about a simple "wget 192.168.1.254"? > >> > >> > > weaver@Bandit:~$ su > > Password: > > Bandit:/home/weaver# wget 192.168.1.254 --2011-08

In Debian 6 KDE, if you have "folder view activity", can the files be thumb-nailed on the desktop

In Debian 6 KDE, if you have "folder view activity", sorry can't get on with the default desktop containment, can the files be thumb-nailed on the desktop ie a mini PDF image rather than a generic PDF icon etc etc Cheers Dave -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http:

Re: Running a script on monitor connect/disconnect

Hi, > Settings applied from the xrandr applet can be stored in a file at your > home user's profile so they are kept after booting and set as soon as you > login (at least this is how it works in GNOME). > > Time ago I read a very good doc that talked about this: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Co

Re: 2TB file system

Rick Pasotto (r...@niof.net on 2011-08-16 12:31 -0400): > I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It > will be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any > problems in formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file > system? > > Any other considerati

Re: Partition not mounted. Was Transplanting old System to New Drive

Martin McCormick (mar...@x.it.okstate.edu on 2011-08-16 06:30 -0500): > > Is there a way to convince fdisk that hdb1 is not > mounted? There might be. Try umount -f The information about current mounts is recorded in /etc/mtab (basically an old relic, but sadly still not put down). The real

Re: 2TB file system

On 8/17/2011 12:29 PM, lina wrote: > is it normal to show something as below? something wrong with my hard drive? > > [122997.499667] ata2.00: SATA link down (SStatus 4 SControl 0) > [122997.499681] ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 4 SControl 0) > [125780.338889] ata_piix :00:1f.2: PCI INT B d

Re: 2TB file system

On 8/17/2011 12:02 PM, lina wrote: > How do I check hard drive information of the desktop? > > Thanks, Usually the drives label will reveal all. Size, Spindle-Speed, Cache if present (all the 750's and 1TB drives I bought have a 16MB cache on them). YMMV though depending on what it came with. The

Re: 2TB file system

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:30:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:31:53 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > >> I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It >> will be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems >> in formating the entire disk (no par

Re: Is there a way to 'yoke' the 2 x monitors together so a different activity changes both monitors at once ?

Thanks for that, I will give it a go :) Cheers Dave On 16 August 2011 19:38, dave selby wrote: > Hi All, > > Setting up debian 6 with a dual monitor using Nvidia drivers, all is > well apart from adding activities seems to be per monitor, and worse > changing activities seems to change all pos

Re: 2TB file system

lina wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Pete Orrall wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 21:27 +0800, lina wrote: What's the best choice of the portable hard drive. reliable. 1TB. There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once tried the hitachi. Hitachi is fantastic. I've b

Re: 2TB file system

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Mihira Fernando wrote: > On 08/17/2011 09:32 PM, lina wrote: >> >> How do I check hard drive information of the desktop? >> >> Thanks, >> > > # dmesg | grep ata > > among other things, it showed : > [    1.296919] ata1.00: ATA-7: Hitachi HTS541680J9SA00, SB2OC70P,

Re: Which keyserver to use for debian?

> Kent West writes: > I'm getting the "public key is not available" type error on trying to > upgrade my box from lenny to squeeze. Could you please provide the whole error message? Also, what's the output of the following commands: $ dpkg -l debian-archive-keyring $ gp

Re: 2TB file system

On 08/17/2011 09:32 PM, lina wrote: How do I check hard drive information of the desktop? Thanks, # dmesg | grep ata among other things, it showed : [1.296919] ata1.00: ATA-7: Hitachi HTS541680J9SA00, SB2OC70P, max UDMA/100 [1.296923] ata1.00: 156301488 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NC

Re: Which keyserver to use for debian?

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:44:46AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I'm getting the "public key is not available" type error on trying > to upgrade my box from lenny to squeeze. > > I have a vauge understanding of gpg/public keys/private keys, but > only vague, and I've found these two commands online wh

Re: 2TB file system

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: > On 8/17/2011 11:41 AM, lina wrote: >> Yeah. Here I meant external hard drive. (Actually I have no idea about >> what's kind of driver I used in desktop or laptop). >> >> The external drives mainly plan to store some data which won't be >> vi

Which keyserver to use for debian?

I'm getting the "public key is not available" type error on trying to upgrade my box from lenny to squeeze. I have a vauge understanding of gpg/public keys/private keys, but only vague, and I've found these two commands online which I believe will fix my problem: gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.

Re: 2TB file system

On 8/17/2011 11:41 AM, lina wrote: > Yeah. Here I meant external hard drive. (Actually I have no idea about > what's kind of driver I used in desktop or laptop). > > The external drives mainly plan to store some data which won't be > visited often, kind of back up. > 500 GB + 500 GB is much more s

Re: 2TB file system

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: > On 8/17/2011 10:19 AM, Dejan Ribič wrote: >> Dne 17.8.2011 15:27, piše lina: >>> What's the best choice of the portable hard drive. >>> reliable. 1TB. >>> >>> There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once >>> tried the hi

Re: [OT] 2TB file system

On 8/17/2011 10:48 AM, Mihira Fernando wrote: > On 08/17/2011 07:55 PM, Pete Orrall wrote: >> How interesting. I hear many people have had problems with Hitachi >> drives, hence the nickname "Hitachi DeathStar" but myself...I've had >> no problems using their drives of any capacity from sizes small

Re: 2TB file system

On 8/17/2011 10:19 AM, Dejan Ribič wrote: > Dne 17.8.2011 15:27, piše lina: >> What's the best choice of the portable hard drive. >> reliable. 1TB. >> >> There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once >> tried the hitachi. >> >> Thanks, >> >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Roge

Re: BASH completing directories like files

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:01:15PM -0400, Kete wrote: > Hello, > I'm not sure what I did, but BASH is completing directories with a space > instead of a slash on the end; and that's slowing me down because I have > to backspace and type a slash. I recently added an alias to my bashrc, I'm not

Re: 2TB file system

How did you get your lucky portable hard driver? On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2011-08-17 16:19:27, Dejan Ribič wrote: >> BTW: Didn't Hitachi used to be IBM? I am just asking because >> I didn't have the best experience with IBM drives, had two of them >> and they both

Re: 2TB file system

On 2011-08-17 16:19:27, Dejan Ribič wrote: > BTW: Didn't Hitachi used to be IBM? I am just asking because > I didn't have the best experience with IBM drives, had two of them > and they both broke within 18 months(lucky for me I had quaranty for > them :D ). Yes. Deathstar ring any bells?

Re:[OT] 2TB file system

On 08/17/2011 07:55 PM, Pete Orrall wrote: How interesting. I hear many people have had problems with Hitachi drives, hence the nickname "Hitachi DeathStar" but myself...I've had no problems using their drives of any capacity from sizes smaller than 80GB all the way to 1TB. Probably cause yo

Re: 2TB file system

> BTW: > Didn't Hitachi used to be IBM? I believe IBM sold Hitachi their hard drive business. > I am just asking because I didn't have > the best experience with IBM drives, had two of them and they both broke > within 18 months(lucky for me I had quaranty for them :D ). How interesting. I h

Re: 2TB file system

2011/8/17 Dejan Ribič : > Dne 17.8.2011 15:27, piše lina: >> >> What's the best choice of the portable hard drive. >> reliable. 1TB. >> I'd go with emc, iirc they stress test drives before they send them to you :) >> There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once >> tried the h

Re: 2TB file system

Dne 17.8.2011 15:27, piše lina: What's the best choice of the portable hard drive. reliable. 1TB. There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once tried the hitachi. Thanks, On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:51:44PM -0400, Nico Ka

Re: how to add exec permission to other users

On 17/08/11 14:30, Long Wind wrote: Thank Kumar and Dejan! The program is mozilla in Mandrake 10.0 It still doesn't work after I run the command you suggest I'll give up. I think you should give up. Mandrake 10 was released in 2004, so it's now 7 years old, and full of security holes. Runnin

Re: 2TB file system

On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 21:27 +0800, lina wrote: > What's the best choice of the portable hard drive. > reliable. 1TB. > > There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once > tried the hitachi. Hitachi is fantastic. I've been using their drives in my machines since 2003 with no pro

Re: 2TB file system

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Pete Orrall wrote: > On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 21:27 +0800, lina wrote: >> What's the best choice of the portable hard drive. >> reliable. 1TB. >> >> There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once >> tried the hitachi. > > Hitachi is fantastic.  I've

Re: Looking for a package management GUI in KDE

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:09:10 -0400 Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Hello Nico, > Because you left Synaptic running on an X session, went home,and would > like to install or change something or let the nightly updates run. Or > because you're running a local setup script, or nightly update tool. Ah, I

Re: how to add exec permission to other users

Thank Kumar and Dejan! The program is mozilla in Mandrake 10.0 It still doesn't work after I run the command you suggest I'll give up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://

Re: 2TB file system

What's the best choice of the portable hard drive. reliable. 1TB. There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once tried the hitachi. Thanks, On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:51:44PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Tue, Aug

Re: Microsoft Natural Keyboard and numeric keypad

Peter Krefting: I have a "Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 v1.0" (USB) and I am unable to get the numeric keypad to work under GNOME on my Debian Lenny box (amd64). Make that Debian Squeeze. I got my codenames mixed up :-) -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ -- To UNSUBSC

Re: 2TB file system

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:51:44PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will > > be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in > > formating the entire

Re: how to add exec permission to other users

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 06:58:52AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > I have a program > It can be run by root only > I want to add exec permission to other users > so they can run it too > how to use chmod? You should be able to use chmod a+x . But please be aware of the security implications of doing thi

Re: how to add exec permission to other users

Dne 17.8.2011 13:58, piše Long Wind: I have a program It can be run by root only I want to add exec permission to other users so they can run it too how to use chmod? Hi, to answer your question: /sudo chmod a+x filename/ For further details use /man chmod/. Cheers, Dejan

Re: 2TB file system

On 8/16/2011 12:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: A single volume of 2 TiB is very big (and big file systems are more prone to errors and hard to recover in the event of a corruption... fsck can take... ages? :-P). I've never seen a correlation between filesystem size and probability of FS corruption.

how to add exec permission to other users

I have a program It can be run by root only I want to add exec permission to other users so they can run it too how to use chmod? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists

Microsoft Natural Keyboard och numeriska tangenter (fwd)

Hi! I have a "Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 v1.0" (USB) and I am unable to get the numeric keypad to work under GNOME on my Debian Lenny box (amd64). They work fine in a console, but under X they neither work as arrow keys nor digits. I first thought it was my .Xmodmap file that

Re: Looking for a package management GUI in KDE

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:56:57 -0400 > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > Hello Nico, > >> Synaptic is my friend. The only issue I've had with it is that, due to >> locking, I cannot run "apt-get" command line simultaneously from >> another window. Bu

Wheezy: Mouse cursor in FF/Iceweasel

Hi, I remember there was a time when FF/Iceweasel would change a regular arrow-shaped mouse cursor to "arrow with hourglass" when Iceweasel was busy doing something like, for example, retrieving a page. Now the cursor just stays arrow while Iceweasel is retrieving the page, which may be confusi

Re: Is there a way to 'yoke' the 2 x monitors together so a different activity changes both monitors at once ?

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 07:38:44PM +0100, dave selby wrote: > Hi All, > > Setting up debian 6 with a dual monitor using Nvidia drivers, all is > well apart from adding activities seems to be per monitor, and worse > changing activities seems to change all possible activity screens > through one mo

bugs with debian small install

I tried to install the small verion of debian, the 32 bit version and it wouldn't read my dvd rom so I couldn't finish the install. please help. I really want this os system and have heard great things about it.

Re: Basic advice for setting up sound? Ubuntu convert

- Original Message - > From: Johan Grönqvist > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 8:33 AM > Subject: Re: Basic advice for setting up sound? Ubuntu convert > > 2011-08-16 12:20, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum skrev: >> >> Where can i go for docs on how to s

Re: setting up a static IP address

16.8.2011 18:31, Steve Kleene kirjoitti: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:32:42 -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: >> (I also have dns-nameservers lines in my eth0 stanza in /e/n/i. >> IIRC, when I didn't, using dynamic wireless connections kept clobbering >> the static DNS entries in /etc/resolv.conf.) > > T

Re: Looking for a package management GUI in KDE

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:56:57 -0400 Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Hello Nico, > Synaptic is my friend. The only issue I've had with it is that, due to > locking, I cannot run "apt-get" command line simultaneously from > another window. But that's a small price to pay for such a well > developed GUI.

Re: Apple iBook power management

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Joel Rees @ 08/16/2011 10:08 PM: > The module pmu_battery may need to be loaded. > > after doing this, the icon says it's always on battery power even when AC is plugge