Re: xbindkeys alternative?

2011-09-02 Thread Nicholas Chihau Yang
You can use the Guile scheme configuration. Use the define-chord-keys function as defined in the default config. $ xbindkeys --defaults-guile> ~/.xbindkeysrc.scm Then in the .xbindkeysrc.scm file, define something like, for example, number '1' key and right-mouse click: ; Using arbitary keyp

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011-09-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 05:32:03AM +, darkestkhan wrote: > 2011/9/1 Stephen Allen : > > Hello. > > What do I have to do to fix this? > > check out /etc/sudoers if it contains all fields ---end quoted text--- It contains just 2 fields; # User privilege specification root

Re: Terminal Server Client

2011-09-02 Thread F. L.
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:01 AM, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > Sorry I'm just jumping into the middle without having read much of the > thread. The rdesktop package stopped working for me a long time ago. I've > been using remmina ever since. Is that available to you? I manage a moderate > number of WS

more woes with my debian install: booting edition

2011-09-02 Thread jeremy jozwik
for those who are not fallowing, i last posted to the list about not being able to see anything on my machine past the debian squeeze install menu. well that was solved a few days ago. and since then i had been able to boot my machine into debian several times [possibly 6 at most] todays issue is

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-02 Thread Randy Kramer
On Friday 02 September 2011 07:27:09 am Camaleón wrote: > Let's take Lisi's posting messages as sample: > > - They're non-GPG/PGP signed (or at least I can't see it from headers :-?) > - They're text based > - They have no e-mail footer > > Having a mbox archive would help to diagnose such cases :-

history

2011-09-02 Thread shawn wilson
what does this mean: 706 perl -e '$str = "a b c"; my $a = /(\s+)/; print "$a\n";' 707* perl -e '$str = "a b c"; my $a = /(\s+)/; print "$a\n";' 708 perl -e '$str = "a"; (my $a, $b = $str) =~ /{.)(.)/ ? ( $1, $2 ) : ( $_, $_ ); print "$a\n";' ie, 707* - i've never seen this before. btw, i

Re: sources.list directory specification

2011-09-02 Thread Lisi
On Friday 02 September 2011 13:18:00 Scott Ferguson wrote: > Enabling those repositories on a constant basis means you have no idea > what will come down if you go:- > # apt-get update; apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) I have backports permanently enabled, but packages are only downloaded if I e

Re: missing modules

2011-09-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Larry, Your replies are very difficult to read since I initially thought you were simply sending my original message back to me! Please trim your reply to be just your reply and quote the parts you want to quote and delete everything else that isn't related. ow...@netptc.net wrote: > I have veri

Re: USB-Printer prints RAW PCL6-Code

2011-09-02 Thread Martin Lorenz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 02.09.2011 23:47, schrieb Martin Lorenz: > > > Am 30.08.2011 23:52, schrieb Martin Lorenz: > > >> Am 30.08.2011 19:18, schrieb Matt Richardson: >>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:45:43 +0200, Mart

Re: safe remote upload-only access

2011-09-02 Thread Bob Proulx
rlhar...@hal-pc.org wrote: > What is a good, secure way to give a remote user on a Windows machine > access to a Debian machine so that he may upload proprietary files > every few days? > ... > I have considered rsync, scp, and setting up a ftp server. My primary > concern is safety of the Debian

Re: USB-Printer prints RAW PCL6-Code

2011-09-02 Thread Martin Lorenz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 30.08.2011 23:52, schrieb Martin Lorenz: > > > Am 30.08.2011 19:18, schrieb Matt Richardson: >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:45:43 +0200, Martin Lorenz wrote: >>> Again a rather strange behavi

Re: safe remote upload-only access

2011-09-02 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:02:14 -0500, rlharris wrote: > What is a good, secure way to give a remote user on a Windows machine > access to a Debian machine so that he may upload proprietary files every > few days? > > The Debian machine is behind a router/firewall and has a dynamic ip > address, but

Re: Terminal Server Client

2011-09-02 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
Sorry I'm just jumping into the middle without having read much of the thread. The rdesktop package stopped working for me a long time ago. I've been using remmina ever since. Is that available to you? I manage a moderate number of WS2003 and WS2008 systems from Debian testing using remmina.

Re: safe remote upload-only access

2011-09-02 Thread rlharris
j...@jretrading.com wrote: > First, how big might the files be? Email is an absolutely guaranteed > one-way-only file transfer system, For the most part, the files are photographs -- dozens of them in every batch. The present approach is to upload the photographs to a service which provides pri

Re: safe remote upload-only access

2011-09-02 Thread Joe
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 13:02:14 -0500 rlhar...@hal-pc.org wrote: > What is a good, secure way to give a remote user on a Windows machine > access to a Debian machine so that he may upload proprietary files > every few days? > > The Debian machine is behind a router/firewall and has a dynamic ip > add

safe remote upload-only access

2011-09-02 Thread rlharris
What is a good, secure way to give a remote user on a Windows machine access to a Debian machine so that he may upload proprietary files every few days? The Debian machine is behind a router/firewall and has a dynamic ip address, but it does have a domain name registered with dyndns.com. The Debi

Liferea doesn't update feeds, complains of Gconf/DBus errors

2011-09-02 Thread Joel Roth
Hi, Using unstable here. No recent configuration changes AFAIK. Upgrading Liferea didn't help. Any suggestions for this? Here is the full error text. GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus

Re: configuring XKB via xorg.conf

2011-09-02 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:52:51 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > How do I configure XKB via xorg.conf? I'd like to configure XKB > as the following setxkbmap(1) invocation does, but right at the X > server's startup time. > > $ setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_backspace,keypad:legacy H

Re: Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?

2011-09-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 02 September 2011 05:50:05 am yudi v wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to understand the difference between the following two methods > > *First method * > this taken from irc dpkg bot > "aptitude -r install linux-headers-2.6-`uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` > nvidia-kernel-dkms && mkdir /e

Re: Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?

2011-09-02 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:50:05 +1000, yudi v wrote: > I am trying to understand the difference between the following two > methods (...) I dunno what's better, I'm afraid that is very subjective and highly dependant on other factors (for instance, there can be ocassions where you need to get the

configuring XKB via xorg.conf

2011-09-02 Thread Ivan Shmakov
How do I configure XKB via xorg.conf? I'd like to configure XKB as the following setxkbmap(1) invocation does, but right at the X server's startup time. $ setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_backspace,keypad:legacy And how do I get Shift + Num Lock “mouse keys”

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-02 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:04:13 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 02 September 2011 12:27:09 Camaleón wrote: >> Let's take Lisi's posting messages as sample: >> >> - They're non-GPG/PGP signed (or at least I can't see it from headers >> :-?) - They're text based >> - They have no e-mail footer > > That

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-02 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:39:11 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 02/09/11 12:27, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:23:03 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> >>> Camaleón wrote: My guess is that non-subscribers users (like me) do receive the footer appended at their messages but subscrib

Re: How to set mailto application

2011-09-02 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:45:49 -0400 "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > > How can I configure chromium to open claws-mail as the mailto link > handler? Right now it just opens a new chromium window to the new tab > page. > Nevermind, I figured it out. Apparently /usr/bin/xdg-email on my system w

Re: sources.list directory specification

2011-09-02 Thread Dejan Ribič
Dne 2.9.2011 14:18, piše Scott Ferguson: On 02/09/11 19:37, Dejan Ribič wrote: Dne 02. 09. 2011 07:19, piše Scott Ferguson: On 02/09/11 03:06, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:13 AM, wrote: I'd be cautious about enabling backports, proposed, and, especially, multimedia - except

Re: Terminal Server Client

2011-09-02 Thread F. L.
What is the Windoof? (==Windows?) I can't touch the remote windows server, I even don't know which room it stays. only provided by the right to access and the hostname. I contacted the administrator today and being informed the following information: "There is nothing wrong with Server. I’ve just

Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?

2011-09-02 Thread yudi v
Hi, I am trying to understand the difference between the following two methods *First method * this taken from irc dpkg bot "aptitude -r install linux-headers-2.6-`uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` nvidia-kernel-dkms && mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d ; echo -e 'Section "Device"\n\tIdentifier "My GPU"\

Re: Terminal Server Client

2011-09-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/09/11 22:42, F. L. wrote: On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Scott Ferguson mailto:prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 02/09/11 21:43, firstname lastname wrote: Hi, During the trial of connecting to the remote (Windows) desktop. I used the terminal server client, Please note: I

Re: rtorrent - verifying encryption

2011-09-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 08:31:53AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > I have encryption enabled, but not required, for rtorrent. How can I > tell if a particular connection is using encryption or not? Does > anybody have a good guide to help understand the rtorrent interface? > Argh, I found the answer m

Re: Terminal Server Client

2011-09-02 Thread F. L.
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Scott Ferguson < prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/09/11 21:43, firstname lastname wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> During the trial of connecting to the remote (Windows) desktop. >> >> I used the terminal server client, >> >> Please note: I have succeed in conne

rtorrent - verifying encryption

2011-09-02 Thread Rob Owens
I have encryption enabled, but not required, for rtorrent. How can I tell if a particular connection is using encryption or not? Does anybody have a good guide to help understand the rtorrent interface? -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Terminal Server Client

2011-09-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/09/11 21:43, firstname lastname wrote: Hi, During the trial of connecting to the remote (Windows) desktop. I used the terminal server client, Please note: I have succeed in connecting many times before (no need question about the setting and the Windows other side work functionally). Ju

Re: sources.list directory specification

2011-09-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/09/11 19:37, Dejan Ribič wrote: Dne 02. 09. 2011 07:19, piše Scott Ferguson: On 02/09/11 03:06, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:13 AM, wrote: I'd be cautious about enabling backports, proposed, and, especially, multimedia - except on a case-by-case basis (enable when neede

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-02 Thread Lisi
On Friday 02 September 2011 12:27:09 Camaleón wrote: > Let's take Lisi's posting messages as sample: > > - They're non-GPG/PGP signed (or at least I can't see it from headers :-?) > - They're text based > - They have no e-mail footer That is just a quirk of Gmane. My own postings arrive in my inb

Re: Terminal Server Client

2011-09-02 Thread firstname lastname
$ ps ax | grep avahi 1421 ?S 0:06 avahi-daemon: running [dove.local] 1422 ?S 0:00 avahi-daemon: chroot helper the avahi-daemon is running. By the way, what does the avahi-daemon work for? Thanks, On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:54 PM, firstname lastname wrote: > I read from

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 02/09/11 12:27, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:23:03 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: My guess is that non-subscribers users (like me) do receive the footer appended at their messages but subscribed users do not. But this is not a scientific statement, just a wild theory I c

Re: Terminal Server Client

2011-09-02 Thread firstname lastname
I read from below link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1044302 On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:43 PM, firstname lastname wrote: > Hi, > > During the trial of connecting to the remote (Windows) desktop. > > I used the terminal server client, > > Please note: I have succeed in connecting many t

Terminal Server Client

2011-09-02 Thread firstname lastname
Hi, During the trial of connecting to the remote (Windows) desktop. I used the terminal server client, Please note: I have succeed in connecting many times before (no need question about the setting and the Windows other side work functionally). Just sometimes it failed to connect and showed me

Re: scsiadd replacement (in squeeze)??

2011-09-02 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:04:55 +0200, feralert wrote: > Im used to scsiadd to remove/add scsi disks (actually sata drives) > from/to my system. (...) Hum... you may find useful this bug report: scsiadd - Uses legacy /proc/scsi interface http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522542 Gre

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-02 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:23:03 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> My guess is that non-subscribers users (like me) do receive the footer >> appended at their messages but subscribed users do not. But this is not >> a scientific statement, just a wild theory I concluded by observing the >>

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-02 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:01:51 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Qui, 01 Set 2011, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> This one didn't (here). >> >> Is there any concensus on what/how/when these footers are added? It >> seems quite random to me. > > That message was GPG-signed, the footer is not adde

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-02 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:46:41 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > FWIW, I don't receive list emails (since I opted out), and neither do I > post directly. I both read and post via gmane; I find that far more > convenient. Me neither (I don't "receive" mailing list e-mails), I'm also a Pan user ;-) Gree

Re: sources.list directory specification

2011-09-02 Thread Dejan Ribič
Dne 02. 09. 2011 07:19, piše Scott Ferguson: > On 02/09/11 03:06, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:13 AM, wrote: >>> >>> I am trying to compose a sources.list file for each of three machines; >>> one is for Lenny (oldstable), one is for Squeeze (stable), and one is >>> for Wheezy (testing

Re: Dual Boot.

2011-09-02 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote: > On 2 September 2011 02:30, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Heddle Weaver >> wrote: >> > On 1 September 2011 13:09, Lennart Sorensen >> > >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> If your windows install uses the entire drive for one partiti

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 03:01:51PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Qui, 01 Set 2011, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >This one didn't (here). > > > >Is there any concensus on what/how/when these footers are added? > >It seems quite random to me. > > That message was GPG-signed, the footer is no

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 08:44:13AM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 02/09/11 07:29, Aaron Toponce wrote: > >On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 04:01:51PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >>On 01/09/11 15:55, Chris Brennan wrote: > >>>Every e-mail I've gotten so far, has had the foot on it... So I think >

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-09-02 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > To each his own. If you're happy with "make deb-pkg", then use it. > I still prefer make-kpkg because of its greater flexibility. (I only > get a headers package if I ask for one, for example. Most of the > time I don't need one.) I also like the ease with which one can > change the kern

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

2011-09-02 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 02/09/11 07:29, Aaron Toponce wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 04:01:51PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 01/09/11 15:55, Chris Brennan wrote: Every e-mail I've gotten so far, has had the foot on it... So I think it's safe to say, always does apply in my case. ... but this one didn't here

Re: Dual Boot.

2011-09-02 Thread Lisi
On Friday 02 September 2011 00:28:50 Heddle Weaver wrote: > If you state as you seem to be , that Microsoft don't enter into grubby > strategies of monopoly control, it ain't me that looks 'silly at best'. You seem deliberately to twist what people say in order to have a go at them. Tom didn't s