Re: Debian is asking for DVD...

2011-11-11 Thread Victor Nitu
On 11/12/2011 08:58 AM, Douglas Saylor wrote: > ...installing VLC player. I'm using a UBS flash drive on my netbook, so > no CD. Advice please? Please paste the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list here, as I suspect a setup removable media still hanging around in the settings. I hope you have netwo

Debian is asking for DVD...

2011-11-11 Thread Douglas Saylor
...installing VLC player. I'm using a UBS flash drive on my netbook, so no CD. Advice please?

Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable?

2011-11-11 Thread Cam Hutchison
I'd like to keep using the panel from GNOME 2. I like its world clock, the menu and a couple of applets. Is this still in unstable at all? The replacement seems to be less functional (at the moment). Otherwise is there a compatible panel available that can use the GNOME 2 world clock? -- To U

Re: "Browse the Web" setting

2011-11-11 Thread Victor Nitu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/12/2011 07:19 AM, Douglas Saylor wrote: > New to Debian. So the "Browse the Web" icon ...I want to change this to > point to Chromium. How do I do that? I can't word it correctly to get > Google to find the answer lol! Thanks! "Preferred Applic

"Browse the Web" setting

2011-11-11 Thread Douglas Saylor
New to Debian. So the "Browse the Web" icon ...I want to change this to point to Chromium. How do I do that? I can't word it correctly to get Google to find the answer lol! Thanks!

Re: nfs howto - are debian docs dated?

2011-11-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/11/11 11:56, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > > I've only responded to this one question just yet because I'm working > from your other input to get this done... thanks. The NFS.org page is the most useful - see the HowTos > >> That's not a lot of examples - what did you wa

Re: nfs howto - are debian docs dated?

2011-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson writes: I've only responded to this one question just yet because I'm working from your other input to get this done... thanks. > That's not a lot of examples - what did you want to use if for? Exchange of files between debian desktop and solaris zfs servers. So it will be both

Re: emacs RMAIL -- help needed

2011-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Alberto Luaces writes: >> Here is my .gnus file: [...] >> (setq imap-log t) >> Here are the messages from my *Messages* buffer: [...] You've gone beyond my tiny store of possibly helpful input except to suggest once more that you will definitely get expert help on this question if you post it

Re: GNOME 3 - Help needed - Testing upgraded from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3

2011-11-11 Thread Richard
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:51:16 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > Hahaha :D > > GNOME 3 what an odd DE. > Missing features (weather, restart option etc.), Evolution doesn't work, > because it can't connect to > the network, it tries to force us to install pulseaudio, it completely breaks > the workfl

Re: Alphabetical order in Synaptic

2011-11-11 Thread Richard
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:02:52 +0100 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 11/11/11 13:36, Richard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How do you get synaptic to list available packages in alphabetical order ? > > > Click on the "Package" heading of the list. > Thanks Guys, that's soo easy but not obvious. -- Best

Re: problems

2011-11-11 Thread Brian
On Fri 11 Nov 2011 at 20:47:07 +, HEDDY, WILLIAM wrote: > I downloaded and installed Debian on my computer last night and I rebooted > the computer and now all that comes up is a white cursor on a black screen. > Did I just completely kill my Windows 7 operating system? Probably not, unless y

GNOME 3 - Help needed - Testing upgraded from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3

2011-11-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hahaha :D GNOME 3 what an odd DE. Missing features (weather, restart option etc.), Evolution doesn't work, because it can't connect to the network, it tries to force us to install pulseaudio, it completely breaks the workflow of sane users. Is there a way to get back a panel that enables to swi

Re: problems

2011-11-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:47:07 +, HEDDY, WILLIAM wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I downloaded and installed Debian on my computer last night and I > rebooted the computer and now all that comes up is a white cursor on a > black screen. Did I just completely kill my Windows 7 operating sys

Re: /etc/default/keyboard XKBOPTIONS not read by X

2011-11-11 Thread Dan B.
I. wrote: Dan B. wrote: Raf Czlonka wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 12:50:57AM GMT, Bob Proulx wrote: Dan B. wrote: I tried swapping the left Control key and Caps Lock key by modifying the XKBOPTIONS value in /etc/default/keyboard, ... ... XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:swapcaps" ...> Hey, I just noti

Re: /etc/default/keyboard XKBOPTIONS not read by X

2011-11-11 Thread Dan B.
Dan B. wrote: Raf Czlonka wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 12:50:57AM GMT, Bob Proulx wrote: Dan B. wrote: I tried swapping the left Control key and Caps Lock key by modifying the XKBOPTIONS value in /etc/default/keyboard, per instructions that said it would take effect for both the virtual cons

Re: problems

2011-11-11 Thread Kent West
On 11/11/2011 02:47 PM, HEDDY, WILLIAM wrote: To whom it may concern, I downloaded and installed Debian on my computer last night and I rebooted the computer and now all that comes up is a white cursor on a black screen. Did I just completely kill my Windows 7 operating system? Thanks for

Re: Trouble starting django project

2011-11-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/11/11 08:04, Eric Galaxy wrote: > I just installed django on my system. �Following the install > instructions > (http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-django-on-debian-lenny-apache2-mod_python), > I ran the following line: > > /usr/share/python-support/python-django/django/bin/django-admi

problems

2011-11-11 Thread HEDDY, WILLIAM
To whom it may concern, I downloaded and installed Debian on my computer last night and I rebooted the computer and now all that comes up is a white cursor on a black screen. Did I just completely kill my Windows 7 operating system? Thanks for any help Brandon Heddy

Knowledge base.

2011-11-11 Thread Weaver
I've been looking at Fedora's latest move and I think it's a good innovation. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-launches-community-knowledge-base-1376531.html Innovation applies as much to community as it does to development. By extending this communication reach out into the wider c

Re: /etc/default/keyboard XKBOPTIONS not read by X

2011-11-11 Thread Dan B.
Raf Czlonka wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 12:50:57AM GMT, Bob Proulx wrote: Dan B. wrote: I tried swapping the left Control key and Caps Lock key by modifying the XKBOPTIONS value in /etc/default/keyboard, per instructions that said it would take effect for both the virtual consoles and X. I

Trouble starting django project

2011-11-11 Thread Eric Galaxy
I just installed django on my system. Following the install instructions ( http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-django-on-debian-lenny-apache2-mod_python ), I ran the following line: /usr/share/python-support/python-django/django/bin/django-admin.py startproject mysite * * to start a project.

Into: Coming over to Debian from Ubuntu

2011-11-11 Thread Douglas Saylor
I used Debian once before, years ago & at the time Debian seemed difficult to configure & software was way behind the times. I don't know if I'm just getting older & more cranky, but I *think* I'd rather have older but stable & "just works". For now, I'll have the option to boot into either Debian

Re: Dead keys in Gnome3/Shell?

2011-11-11 Thread Olav Lavell
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:20:46 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: - For the non-visible indicator problem: Run this from a terminal (don't worry, it is harmless, you are only requesting for a variable value): gsettings get org.gnome.libgnomekbd.indicator show-flags And put here the result. I alrea

Re: gnome 3 refugee; How to just run compiz as the Window Manager, no "session" management

2011-11-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Weaver wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:17:10 -0500 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:20:33 -0600 Paul Johnson wrote: ... Here's my angry rant: I'm an old timer, can remember time when "startx" would just call a window manager and start a terminal, before Gnome, KDE, etc existed. I sti

Re: Gnome workspace manager has disappeared -- Help!

2011-11-11 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-11-11 a las 10:19 -0600, Dennis Wicks escribió: (sending back to the list) > Camaleón wrote the following on 11/09/2011 06:26 AM: >> On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:17:09 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: >> >>> Somehow the workspace manager and the index which appeared at the lower >>> right of the scre

Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Philipp Tölke wrote: > Can't you tell firefox to use a socks proxy? Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Chris Davies wrote: > >Bob Proulx wrote: > >>Yes. I use it regularly. The -D option sets up a socks server. But > >>that is a socks proxy not an http proxy. It is awesome for socks > >>forwarding th

Re: Gnome3 and external screen

2011-11-11 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:42:38 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: You may be referring to the gnome-shell, not gnome3 :-P > When I configure my display areas and select the external screen to be > above my internal one, I am unable to move windows to the external > screen. > > When the setup is left/right

Re: Dead keys in Gnome3/Shell?

2011-11-11 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:40:10 +0100, Olav Lavell wrote: > On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:42:56 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> Sadly, in my case typing ' simply produces ' (single quote). In other >>> words, it does not wait for the second keystroke. >> >> Does it work for a new user account? > >

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-11 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 08:54:39PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: .snip. > > So I'm thinking maybe I need some kind of initialization string for the > modem. Are they specific to a certain model of modem? Is there > something else I should be trying? See if this helps: http:/

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-11 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 05:47:21PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Robert Holtzman wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > A .deb package for firefox? Where? > > > > > > The Debian Mozilla team makes Firefox deb packages available for > > > Stable that tracks the current release. > > > > > > http://moz

Re: emacs RMAIL -- help needed

2011-11-11 Thread Alberto Luaces
Sian Mountbatten writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> Sian Mountbatten writes: >> >>> Having loaded gnus into emacs23, in the group buffer I keyed ^ >>> and got a list of servers. Two entries caught my attention: >>> >>> {nnimap:Opera} (denied) >>> {nntp:nntp.aioe.org} (opened) (agent) >>> >>> Wh

Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-11 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: >> 3. W/ tap - You have seen already the problem - some unknown to me >> permission problem - do You know why is it so? >> >I can make a guess: > >$ ls -l /dev/net/tun >crw-rw 1 root kvm 10, 200 Nov 9 21:36 tun >$ groups >aschuring users kvm [..] >$

Re: Dead keys in Gnome3/Shell?

2011-11-11 Thread Olav Lavell
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:42:56 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:06:13 +0100, Olav Lavell wrote: I decided not to resist futilely and to go along with the recent Gnome upgrade in Wheezy. So now I can't type anymore :( Longer version: I depend on the "International (with dead

Piekrītu, metamies turp? :p

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Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-11 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: >Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-11-08 14:44 +0700): >> >> >> /usr/bin/kvm -localtime -m 256 -no-reboot >> >> -cdrom ./debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst/debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst.iso >> >> -boot d -hda ./da -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no >>

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-11 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:54:39 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > Thanks for the tips, everyone. But it seems I have forgotten more about > modems than I realized. > > I'm now using gnome-ppp as a dialer, which uses wvdial as a backend (I > think). I'm also using martian-modem, which provides a driver for

[OT] Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-11 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:18:53 +, T o n g wrote: > Well, not exactly now but at lease Adobe flash is dead for all mobile > devices: > > Adobe confirms Flash Player is dead for mobile devices > http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/adobe-confirms-flash-player-is-dead- > for-mobile-devices/ > > Ste

Re: debian wheezy 64 bit --- on HP Pavillion dv6921la Notebook --- driver question!

2011-11-11 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:45:06 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > Hola! Hi! :-P > I have debian Wheezy 64 bit installed, and just installed the new skype > for 64bit debian. AFAIK, there is no such a version. Skype only provides 32-bits binaries for linux. > It works OK, but it cannot

Re: Dead keys in Gnome3/Shell?

2011-11-11 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:06:13 +0100, Olav Lavell wrote: > I decided not to resist futilely and to go along with the recent Gnome > upgrade in Wheezy. So now I can't type anymore :( > > Longer version: I depend on the "International (with dead keys)" > keyboard layout, as configured in System Setti

Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/11/11 15:03, Chris Davies wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Yes. I use it regularly. The -D option sets up a socks server. But that is a socks proxy not an http proxy. It is awesome for socks forwarding though. I use it with the dante socksify program. Works great. Last time I looked, fire

Re: nfs howto - are debian docs dated?

2011-11-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/11/11 23:40, Harry Putnam wrote: > Dan Ritter writes: > >> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 01:34:47PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> On one site (the one cited above) I noticed said something about >>> having to change kernels. I'm currently running wheezy with >>> 3.0.0-686-pae. Will that need to

Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-11 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Proulx wrote: > Yes. I use it regularly. The -D option sets up a socks server. But > that is a socks proxy not an http proxy. It is awesome for socks > forwarding though. I use it with the dante socksify program. Works > great. Last time I looked, firefox, at least, supported proxying v

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:54:39 -0500 (EST), Rob Owens wrote: > ... > I'm also using martian-modem, which provides a driver for my > Agere WinModem. > ... By the way, I forgot to mention that your winmodem is one of the best ones, in my humble opinion (i.e. the best of a bad breed), since it provides

Re: emacs RMAIL -- help needed

2011-11-11 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Harry Putnam writes: > Sian Mountbatten writes: > >> Having loaded gnus into emacs23, in the group buffer I keyed ^ >> and got a list of servers. Two entries caught my attention: >> >> {nnimap:Opera} (denied) >> {nntp:nntp.aioe.org} (opened) (agent) >> >> Why was Opera denied? Will there be a lo

Re: Alphabetical order in Synaptic

2011-11-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/11/11 13:36, Richard wrote: Hi, How do you get synaptic to list available packages in alphabetical order ? Click on the "Package" heading of the list. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Alphabetical order in Synaptic

2011-11-11 Thread The_Ace
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Richard wrote: > Hi, > > How do you get synaptic to list available packages in alphabetical order ? > > -- Click on the Package column -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Alphabetical order in Synaptic

2011-11-11 Thread Richard
Hi, How do you get synaptic to list available packages in alphabetical order ? -- Best wishes / 73 Richard Bown e-mail: rich...@g8jvm.com or richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk nil carborundum a illegitemis ## Ham Ca

Re: nfs howto - are debian docs dated?

2011-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Dan Ritter writes: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 01:34:47PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: >> On one site (the one cited above) I noticed said something about >> having to change kernels. I'm currently running wheezy with >> 3.0.0-686-pae. Will that need to be changed? > > No. > > aptitude install nfs-k

Re: HD Data Recovery

2011-11-11 Thread A. Costa
Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > ...the cause was a hard disk error... > ...I swapped the drive in as a slave... > ...I don't get promising results from the standard disk tools... > ...the store and they claimed it had a broken read/write head... A broken head is relatively unusual. Short of openi

re: trn package configuration

2011-11-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
I found nntpget and found out how that's supposed to work. I think unless there's a real good reason to use trn rather than tin or slrn I'll leave trn off of this system. I don't have a problem going up complex learning curves if there's a good reason to do so but in this case based on what I

trn package configuration

2011-11-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
The news reader goes to localhost and expects to find news there in all cases when first started up. So far as I was able to find no configuration file for it exists in the package and no way exists to make a configuration file using the package contents or downloading another tar file from th

Re: Hijacked account.

2011-11-11 Thread Jilek Brian
To everyone who received this email. I appologize. It seems my account was hijacked. I have changed my security settings and passwords. Hopefully you will not receive this junk again from me. On Nov 11, 2011, at 12:09 AM, B. L. Jilek wrote: > Hi! > everyone was worried about me this helps me s