Re: Network slow with "new" kernel (debianuser: to exclusive)

Hello Camaleón, > > we have a strange problem here at our company: > > > > We have a few linux machines behind a firewall. > > What kind of firewall? Iptables rules or some kind of commercial > appliance? It's a commercial appliance: Sonicwall NSA3500. > Computers with older kernels are r

Re: Network slow with "new" kernel

Hello Alex, > > We have a few linux machines behind a firewall. When we start a > > download on the "newer" machines (kernel 2.6.32-5), the download > > starts fast (~3M/s), then quickly gets slower after about 10 or 20 > > seconds and soon stalls completely or proceeds at ~3 Byte/s or > > somethi

Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

I have yet to upgrade to Squeeze and I really think that it is about time. I know that some people had problems with the upgrade, but IIRC that was mainly due to the upgrade to the 2.6.32 kernel and the new udev. I have already done that upgrade and am running vmlinuz-2.6.32-bpo.3-686, so it

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

On 24/11/11 16:09, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:19:26 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I have some Freemind mindmap files ending with the .mm filename. Up until recently clicking on the filename would automatically start Freemind. (...) Anyone any idea how I can change the default app

Re: Debian: A noob query

On 2011-11-24 16:02, Walter Hurry wrote: > Ah, right, thanks. I didn't know that - I tend to stick with HP as I've > always had excellent results with their printers and HPLIP. I did the same for a long time, too. Finally I gave Epson a try and I like it, actually because of 1 special option (be

Resolved mostly: Help with CUPS- printing from Windows to Debian print server

OK, I fixed my immediate problem by changing the permissions for /home/smbprint/ like this: #chmod 777 /home/smbprint/ Now I can print from any Windows box to my Debian CUPS server. My understanding of security is very weak; luckily I am just working on my home setup. But I thought the whole poi

This Christmas, give your old technology to charities and non profits, and recycle at the same time

Hi there, I'm contacting you on behalf of the Electronic Recycling Association (www.era.ca) We are a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing the impact electronic waste has on our environment. We collect old computers and electronic equipment from various companies, individuals and gove

Re: What to expect following major update

On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 09:41:12 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > 2) Should it be considered a bug that grub files are written when boot >is not mounted. A file can be written to any directory, mounted or not. No bug here. > Seems like if the routine notices (which it does) >

Re: Need help with Latex error; Sorry VERY LONG

On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 15:26 -0800, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > > So you run the command manually from the command line and get this > error correct ? > > Yes > > http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/projectsoes - does this has something to > do with you? > > No, this was in the borrowed source

Re: What to expect following major update

On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 16:11:43 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > > If the package is installed and the config file needs to be updated the > > upgrade routine uses to ask what to do (keep the old file, compare both, > > replace it with the nre one...). If the partition where th

Re: Debian: A noob query

--- On Thu, 11/24/11, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 24 November 2011 19:47:01 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Contrary to most of the recommendations you'll get > here (It's a Debian list > > after all), I highly suggest you go with PCLinuxOS > instead of Debian.  I > > ALWAYS recommend PCLinuxOS to Window

Re: Debian: A noob query

32 vs 64 bit - I still use 32 bit because I care about ram more than processing. Second, I'd use linux in a vm if I were you actually I am doing this more and more now. For instance I've got ubuntu in a virtualbox installed at work (because putty sucks, cygwin is a pain, etc - yeah I just use

Re: Password Management ?

On Nov 24, 2011 6:35 AM, "Olivier BATARD" wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm just interested on how, after googling for a long time, on a > debian, can we manage users's passwords. I mean how can we manage a > password database on a web php site for example ? > > How do you manage your user's passwords databa

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:38:05 +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 19:11:16 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> PMFJI. What is an rkhunter "deep scan"? I use rkhunter but am not aware >> of any "deep scan" option. > > 'deep scan' mode was a planned but unimplemented addition to rkhunter's > ca

Re: Password Management ?

On 24/11/11 16:42, Chris Brennan wrote: I use KeePass, it's an offline database program to manage passwords, it's under active development and I've never had any real problems with it. I'm also using Keepass, it's available for all platforms (Linux, Win, Mac, Android,...) and there is a Web-Int

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: > watches videos it is the vertical pixels that count the most. I would > hate to purchase a "new" machine with fewer vertical pixels than the > 1050 in my "old" machine. The best you can do is to get a T60/p with a proper BOE-Hydis 1600x1200 IPS display (or

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 19:11:16 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > PMFJI. What is an rkhunter "deep scan"? I use rkhunter but am not aware > of any "deep scan" option. 'deep scan' mode was a planned but unimplemented addition to rkhunter's capabilities. From the unpublished manual: --deep-scan

Re: Latest iceweasel - package kept back

On 25/11/11 08:21, Rob Hurle wrote: > Hi Andrew and Brad, > > On 25 November 2011 00:44, Brad Rogers wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:26:47 -0500 >> Andrew Reid wrote: >> >> Hello Andrew, >> >>> You need to specify the backport repo in order to get the >>> dependencies to work, I think. >> >>

Re: Debian: A noob query

Hi Sam, I'll throw in my 2 cents as well... On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Weaver wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:43:54 -0500 > Sam Vagni wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > Hello Sam, > > > > I just want to go into Linux, coming from Windows XP. Just want to > > know if Debian is good to go wi

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 18:52:59 +, Camaleón wrote: > Ancient Greeks went to Oracle at Delphi to get answers. Now we have > Google ;-) King Laius would have benefitted from a good dose of skeptism too. :) > I'm afraid the rootkit is not distribution specific. > > I would run a deep scan with

Re: What to expect following major update

Alex Mestiashvili writes: > Can't really imagine why /boot shouldn't be mounted .. > of course it is possible , but upgrading grub without having /boot > mounted sounds for me like shooting himself in the leg . I haven't kept boot mounted for yrs, and I hadn't noticed that grub was to be

Re: What to expect following major update

Alex Mestiashvili writes: >> 3) About etc resolv.conf being rendered useless during update: That >>two seems like it should be bug >> > Could you check that you don't have resolvconf installed ? > if yes than you should configure it or remove ... >>I pulled out an old backup with the

Re: What to expect following major update

Camaleón writes: >> 2) Should it be considered a bug that grub files are written when boot >>is not mounted. Seems like if the routine notices (which it does) >>that those files are absent, should there not be further code to >>check for boot being mounted? >>It seems it should n

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thursday 24 November 2011 20:42:59 Walter Hurry wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:24:34 +, Lisi wrote: > > On Thursday 24 November 2011 16:15:45 Walter Hurry wrote: > >> I see no reason for OP to avoid 64 bit Debian. > > > > Sorry - as usual I am not making myself clear. I am not suggesting t

Re: missing user app gnome3~SOLVED

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:44:33 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:23:54 +, Richard wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:39:30 + (UTC) Camaleón > > wrote: > > (...) > > >> > until either ATI sort out the crap fglrx module that is unstable with > >> > kernel 3, or I buy a

Re: Latest iceweasel - package kept back

Hi Andrew and Brad, On 25 November 2011 00:44, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:26:47 -0500 > Andrew Reid wrote: > > Hello Andrew, > >>   You need to specify the backport repo in order to get the >> dependencies to work, I think. > > Dunno about Rob, but I'd already done that.  Trying

Re: Make WiFi work.

Paul Isambert, 24.11.2011: > > You're absolutely right. So here's a detailed account of what I've > done, following what was exposed (in French) here: > http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/ndiswrapper > (Yeah, it's for Ubuntu, but that seemed good to me anyway.) >From your next message, I saw that you solve

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:24:34 +, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 24 November 2011 16:15:45 Walter Hurry wrote: >> I see no reason for OP to avoid 64 bit Debian. > > Sorry - as usual I am not making myself clear. I am not suggesting that > he should. I said that here would no doubt others who could

nvidia module successfully installed

Hi I had to purge everything I downloaded previously, blacklist nouveau, kill X & gdm3, the run NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run, then reboot. No more shakey display and I can watch TV again without X crashing. -- Best wishes / 73 Richard Bown e-mail: rich...@g8jvm.com or richard.b...@blueyond

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thursday 24 November 2011 19:47:01 Patrick Bartek wrote: > Contrary to most of the recommendations you'll get here (It's a Debian list > after all), I highly suggest you go with PCLinuxOS instead of Debian.  I > ALWAYS recommend PCLinuxOS to Windows users making their first foray into > Linux te

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thursday 24 November 2011 16:15:45 Walter Hurry wrote: > I see no reason for OP to > avoid 64 bit Debian. Sorry - as usual I am not making myself clear. I am not suggesting that he should. I said that here would no doubt others who could better inform him of the pros and cons. All I was a

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thursday 24 November 2011 16:33:24 Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 24 Nov 2011, Lisi wrote: > > > but please tell me if KDE is the > > > default of GNOME is the default desktop for debian? > > > > GNOME is now the Debian default desktop. > > There are others, and of course you don't have to use a d

Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.

On Thursday 24 November 2011 18:19:21 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Encouraging information.  Yes, I'd say Lenny is a contemporary > Debian.  In this case a difficulty appears to be that automation > > introduced in

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

2011/11/24 lrhorer : > Dmitriy Matrosov wrote: > >> 2011/11/24 lrhorer : >>> OK, so here's the deal.  I compiled and installed ncid on one of my >>> Debian servers  Everything seems to be working just fine.  There's >>> one small item, though.  When I took the init scripts and ran >>> update-rc.d,

Re: Debian: A noob query

--- On Thu, 11/24/11, Sam Vagni wrote: > I just want to go into Linux, coming from Windows XP. Just > want to > know if Debian is good to go with and learn then? > > Just to clear my doubts that head people saying about its' > non-compatibility with the newest hardware and not having > latest >

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:52:59 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:06:24 +0100, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Brian wrote: > >> On Wed 23 Nov 2011 at 17:36:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> > >>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:00:27 +0100, Andrea Ganduglia w

sid upgrade texlive-base wont configure - solution

I had persistent problems errors were encountered while processing: texlive-base texlive-latex-base feynmf texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended pdfjam texlive texlive-generic-recommended texlive-luatex texlive-metapost texlive-pictures texmacs ie the following Reading database ..

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:52:59 +, Camaleón wrote: > > I'm afraid the rootkit is not distribution specific. > > I would run a deep scan with the mentioned tool (rkhunter) to be sure. PMFJI. What is an rkhunter "deep scan"? I use rkhunter but am not aware of any "deep scan" option. Thanks.

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:42:25 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >>> I can not run two applications w/ gksu: >>> >>> chromium and >>> >>> qbittorrent >>> >>> w/ the error: >>> >>> Couldn't set environment variable... >> >>Is it only happening with just th

Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.

peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: >> Does Lenny with backports count as contemporary Debian? > > Encouraging information. Yes, I'd say Lenny is a contemporary > Debian. In this case a difficulty appears to be that automation > introduced in X is not quite perfect; yet. Lenny is old stable with old vers

Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

Hi I'm starting to get more that a bit hacked off. The gnome shell requires with the onboard radeon graphics card the ATI driver to run normally, however the ATI proprietary driver is unstable on kernel 3.0 and 3.1. So I've gone the Nvidia route, there is only one slot width on the mobo between t

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:06:24 +0100, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Brian wrote: >> On Wed 23 Nov 2011 at 17:36:40 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:00:27 +0100, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: >>> >>> > I see this message when I call `top' >>> > >>> > Unknow

Re: [solved] Xfce: Toggle CPUfreq scaling by the panel - Was: Re: Xfce: 2 + 1 questions

PS: Don't get me wrong, I run the script as root too, but using gksu I only need to do it for one time a session. -- 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/13221

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:43:54 -0500 Sam Vagni wrote: > Hello everyone, Hello Sam, > > I just want to go into Linux, coming from Windows XP. Just want to > know if Debian is good to go with and learn then? It's good to go with, depending on what you're looking for. If you want to learn, there's

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: >> I can not run two applications w/ gksu: >> >> chromium and >> >> qbittorrent >> >> w/ the error: >> >> Couldn't set environment variable... > >Is it only happening with just that two programs? For a new user it works too, but for the old one -

Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.

From: Joe Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:31:37 + > Not quite, but it Just Works on my netbook, Ubuntu Netbook Remix about > 10-ish. > > Try a Knoppix live CD: if it works with anything, that will do it, and > it's pretty likely that anything Knoppix uses is available to Debian. Will keep thos

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-11-24 17:51 +0100, lrhorer wrote: > >> Arno Schuring wrote: >> >>> lrhorer (lrho...@satx.rr.com on 2011-11-24 03:38 -0600): OK, so here's the deal. I compiled and installed ncid on one of my Debian servers Everything seems to be working just fine. There'

Re: Help with CUPS- printing from Windows to Debian print server

Thanks Pablo for responding, but still no joy. After hours of trying different things, I finally went in search of log files in Samba. I found that there were different relevant log files in /var/log/samba depending, evidently, on how I had set things up at that time. For example, from yesterday

Re: missing user app gnome3

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:10:26 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Richard wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:20:37 -0600 > > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > >> Richard wrote: > >>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:45:07 + (UTC) > >>> Camaleón wrote: > >>> > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:35:22 +, Richard wro

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

Dmitriy Matrosov wrote: > 2011/11/24 Arno Schuring : >> lrhorer (lrho...@satx.rr.com on 2011-11-24 03:38 -0600): >>> OK, so here's the deal. I compiled and installed ncid on one of my >>> Debian servers Everything seems to be working just fine. There's >>> one small item, though. When I took t

Re: Preventing gnome3 autosuspend

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:58:06 +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: > I would be grateful for instructions how to prevent gnome3 (i386 wheezy) > autosuspending. I tried from /usr system wide by either commenting out > or false/true, at no avail Hum... this should be set from "System Settings → Power" but

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

Dmitriy Matrosov wrote: > 2011/11/24 lrhorer : >> OK, so here's the deal. I compiled and installed ncid on one of my >> Debian servers Everything seems to be working just fine. There's >> one small item, though. When I took the init scripts and ran >> update-rc.d, it gave me a warning saying "

Re: Make WiFi work.

Selon Paul Isambert : > Le 24/11/2011 12:05, Selim T. Erdogan a écrit : > > Paul Isambert, 24.11.2011: > >> Le 24/11/2011 10:08, richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk a écrit : > >>> What about ndiswrapper ? > >>> > >> A promising lead. So I've tried that; ndiswrapper works, but then > >> modprobe doesn't

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

On 2011-11-24 17:51 +0100, lrhorer wrote: > Arno Schuring wrote: > >> lrhorer (lrho...@satx.rr.com on 2011-11-24 03:38 -0600): >>> OK, so here's the deal. I compiled and installed ncid on one of my >>> Debian servers Everything seems to be working just fine. There's >>> one small item, though.

Re: Password Management ?

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:34:51 +0100, Olivier BATARD wrote: > I'm just interested on how, after googling for a long time, on a debian, > can we manage users's passwords. I mean how can we manage a password > database on a web php site for example ? > > How do you manage your user's passwords databa

Re: What to expect following major update

On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 09:41:12 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running wheezy > > My updates were held up for a few days because of a problem involving > backuppc not uninstalling properly... now solved. > > So now I've ran the update gui. During this update 187 pkgs were > involved. One of them w

Re: missing user app gnome3

Richard wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:20:37 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Richard wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:45:07 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:35:22 +, Richard wrote: In the gnome applications>sytem tools>adin there used to be a gui for editing groups and use

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

Arno Schuring wrote: > lrhorer (lrho...@satx.rr.com on 2011-11-24 03:38 -0600): >> OK, so here's the deal. I compiled and installed ncid on one of my >> Debian servers Everything seems to be working just fine. There's >> one small item, though. When I took the init scripts and ran >> update-rc

Preventing gnome3 autosuspend

I would be grateful for instructions how to prevent gnome3 (i386 wheezy) autosuspending. I tried from /usr system wide by either commenting out or false/true, at no avail thanks francesco pietra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Network slow with "new" kernel

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:50:45 +0100, debianuser.thegrue wrote: > we have a strange problem here at our company: > > We have a few linux machines behind a firewall. What kind of firewall? Iptables rules or some kind of commercial appliance? > When we start a download on the "newer" machines (ke

Re: What to expect following major update

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 09:41:12AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > 3) About etc resolv.conf being rendered useless during update: That >two seems like it should be bug > >I pulled out an old backup with the right stuff in it and overwrote >/etc/resolv.conf. I then proceeded to make the f

Re: missing user app gnome3

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:23:54 +, Richard wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:39:30 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: (...) >> > until either ATI sort out the crap fglrx module that is unstable with >> > kernel 3, or I buy a nvidia graphics card, and the later is getting >> > closer. >> >> Hum... ca

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 06:43 -0500, Sam Vagni wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I just want to go into Linux, coming from Windows XP. Just want to > know if Debian is good to go with and learn then? > > Just to clear my doubts that head people saying about its' > non-compatibility with the newest hard

Re: Debian: A noob query

On 24 Nov 2011, Lisi wrote: > > > but please tell me if KDE is the > > default of GNOME is the default desktop for debian? > > GNOME is now the Debian default desktop. > There are others, and of course you don't have to use a desktop manager at all. Quite a few people, me included, prefer to u

Re: What to expect following major update

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:41:12 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: (...) > So, three things: > 1) Do I need to do anything special about the upgrade >in compiler? No unless you need a specific gcc version to compile a package with such requirements. > 2) Should it be considered a bug that grub files

Re: missing user app gnome3

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:20:37 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Richard wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:45:07 + (UTC) > > Camaleón wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:35:22 +, Richard wrote: > >> > >>> In the gnome applications>sytem tools>adin there used to be a gui for > >>> editing

Re: Make WiFi work.

Le 24/11/2011 12:05, Selim T. Erdogan a écrit : Paul Isambert, 24.11.2011: Le 24/11/2011 10:08, richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk a écrit : What about ndiswrapper ? A promising lead. So I've tried that; ndiswrapper works, but then modprobe doesn't recognize it (it says something about .conf files

Re: missing user app gnome3

Richard wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:45:07 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:35:22 +, Richard wrote: In the gnome applications>sytem tools>adin there used to be a gui for editing groups and users. I no longer have it, what was it called so IU can put it back, I need to

Re: missing user app gnome3

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:39:30 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:10:26 +, Richard wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:45:07 + (UTC) Camaleón > > wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:35:22 +, Richard wrote: > >> > >> > In the gnome applications>sytem tools>adin t

Re: What to expect following major update

On 11/24/2011 04:41 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running wheezy > > My updates were held up for a few days because of a problem involving > backuppc not uninstalling properly... now solved. > > So now I've ran the update gui. During this update 187 pkgs were > involved. One of them was gcc-4.6. So I

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:50:31 +, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 24 November 2011 14:57:06 Sam Vagni wrote: >> I guess I should go (of course) with 64 since my processor supports >> that (this I came to know).. > > There is no "of course". Sorry, I did not make myself clear. With a 64 > bit proces

Re: OT: flac splitting according to .cue file.

> Thank You for Your time and answer: > > >> $ shnsplit -o wav -f 1.cue 1.flac > >> > >> when I get: > >> > >> shnsplit: error: value not in bytes, m:ss, m:ss.ff, or m:ss.nnn > >> format: > >> ... > >> The .cue file has such lines: > >> > >> ... > >> INDEX 01 00:00:00 > >> INDEX 01 04:01:30 > >

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:19:26 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have some Freemind mindmap files ending with the .mm filename. Up > until recently clicking on the filename would automatically start > Freemind. (...) > Anyone any idea how I can change the default application for these .mm > files b

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

2011/11/24 Arno Schuring : > lrhorer (lrho...@satx.rr.com on 2011-11-24 03:38 -0600): >> OK, so here's the deal.  I compiled and installed ncid on one of my >> Debian servers  Everything seems to be working just fine.  There's >> one small item, though.  When I took the init scripts and ran >> upda

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thursday 24 November 2011 14:57:06 Sam Vagni wrote: > I guess I should go (of course) with 64 since my processor supports > that (this I came to know).. There is no "of course". Sorry, I did not make myself clear. With a 64 bit processor, either a 32bit or 64bit system would work without pro

Re: Disabling NFSv4 on Debian Squeeze

On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:28:15 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> El 2011-11-22 a las 07:50 +0200, Israel Bravo escribió: >>> On 11/21/2011 07:34 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> > El 2011-11-21 a las 08:51 +0200, Israel Bravo escribió: >>> > >>> >> On 11/20/2011 05:2

Re: Password Management ?

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote: Hi, > > I'm just interested on how, after googling for a long time, on a > debian, can we manage users's passwords. I mean how can we manage a > password database on a web php site for example ? > > How do you manage your user's passwords dat

What to expect following major update

Running wheezy My updates were held up for a few days because of a problem involving backuppc not uninstalling properly... now solved. So now I've ran the update gui. During this update 187 pkgs were involved. One of them was gcc-4.6. So I now have 4.5 and 4.6 installed. I noticed that a new g

Re: OT: flac splitting according to .cue file.

Thank You for Your time and answer, Olav: >I would also use this method. Except I usually use bchunk to split the >file, where you use shnsplit. > >So that would be: > >$ bchunk -w 1.bin 1.cue track.wav > >Then of course I would encode the tracks, tag them, rename them. It works great except for

Re: missing user app gnome3

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:10:26 +, Richard wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:45:07 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > >> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:35:22 +, Richard wrote: >> >> > In the gnome applications>sytem tools>adin there used to be a gui for >> > editing groups and users. I no longer have i

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:29:30AM -0500, Sam Vagni wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Walter Hurry > wrote: > > > By the sound of it, you want > amd64/bt-cd/debian-6.0.3-amd64-CD-1.iso.torrent> > > Well thanks, I would start its download, b

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thursday 24 November 2011 14:57:06 Sam Vagni wrote: > My printer is Samsung ML 1610. I'm pretty sure that that is one I have installed for someone else. I myself have the ML-1510, which is older, but similar. At one stage I had to use the "wrong" driver with a printer, I don't remember whic

Re: OT: flac splitting according to .cue file.

Thank You for Your time and answer: >> $ shnsplit -o wav -f 1.cue 1.flac >> >> when I get: >> >> shnsplit: error: value not in bytes, m:ss, m:ss.ff, or m:ss.nnn >> format: >> ... >> The .cue file has such lines: >> >> ... >> INDEX 01 00:00:00 >> INDEX 01 04:01:30 >> INDEX 01 06:54:50 > >Try: >

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > By the sound of it, you want amd64/bt-cd/debian-6.0.3-amd64-CD-1.iso.torrent> Well thanks, I would start its download, but why these CDs are numbered from 1 to some more than 40 or 50...why so m

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:44:48 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > I can not run two applications w/ gksu: > > chromium and > > qbittorrent > > w/ the error: > > Couldn't set environment variable... Is it only happening with just that two programs? > launching so: > > /usr/bin/gksu -u usrname /usr/bin/

Re: backuppc a dog to get rid of now blocking updates

Brian writes: > On Wed 23 Nov 2011 at 05:15:40 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: >>syntax error: unknown user 'backuppc' in statoverride file >> >> Can the `stateoverride' file mentioned be edited? If so, where is it? >> >> Searches of /etc/ and /

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:57:06 -0500, Sam Vagni wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Walter Hurry > wrote: > >> A little vague, I'm afraid. But not to worry, there are Linux >> applications for most things. By the way, I'd strongly recommend (with >> few exceptions) sticking to software which

Re: Bug with network printer setup in Gnome 3?

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:19:40 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > Is there a bug with adding a new network printer (IPP) in Gnome 3 > because I am unable to do it in both Fedora 15 (Gnome 3.0) Fedora 16 > (Gnome 3.2) and Wheezy (Gnome 3.0). > There seems to always have been a bug that prevented you from ad

Re: Network slow with "new" kernel

On 11/24/2011 02:50 PM, debianuser.theg...@spamgourmet.com wrote: > Hello, > > we have a strange problem here at our company: > > We have a few linux machines behind a firewall. When we start a > download on the "newer" machines (kernel 2.6.32-5), the download starts > fast (~3M/s), then quickly ge

Re: Need help with Latex error; Sorry LONG

John W. Foster wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 09:42 -0600, John W. Foster wrote: >> On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 00:21 +0100, deloptes wrote: >> > John W. Foster wrote: >> > >> > > /usr/share/perl5/LaTeXML/texmf >> > >> > you need to setup the environment correctly, so that texmf finds the >> > package

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:03:03 +, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 24 November 2011 13:51:52 Walter Hurry wrote: >> As to the printer, you'll need to check the exact model, not just the >> brand. > > Samsung's splix can manage most Samsungs, just as HP's hpijs and hplip > can manage most HP printers.

Re: Laptop with external display running X11.

peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Squeeze is installed on an IBM ThinkPad A22m and X11 has worked > with no obvious problems. > > Yesterday I connected a PanaSync E70i monitor to the VGA connector > and set BIOS Display to "external". All appeared normal until Xdm > started. There display reverted to

Re: Error upgrading squeeze to wheezy

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:28:21 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > Im encountering the same error on several machines when doing apt-get > update apt-get upgrade apt-get sist-upgrade from a clean install of > squeeze to wheezy. > > The error is > > E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libgstr

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > A little vague, I'm afraid. But not to worry, there are Linux > applications for most things. By the way, I'd strongly recommend (with > few exceptions) sticking to software which is in the repositories (which > are very comprehensive), rathe

Re: DHCP server not starting at boot, any workarounds?

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:09:40 +0200, Victor Nitu wrote: > On 11/23/2011 08:53 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Not sure if this thread will give you any hint: >> >> *** >> DHCP server (version 4) with an alias IP address >> https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2010-September/012052.html >> *** >>

Re: backuppc a dog to get rid of now blocking updates

Rob Owens writes: > You could try: > > aptitude reinstall backuppc > > and see if that gets you anywhere. Thanks, I did mention in OP that I could neither install nor remove. Surely there is someway to get rid of the pesky stuff. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thursday 24 November 2011 13:51:52 Walter Hurry wrote: > As to the printer, you'll need to check the exact > model, not just the brand. Samsung's splix can manage most Samsungs, just as HP's hpijs and hplip can manage most HP printers. (But not necessarily all its all-in-ones.) Lisi -- To

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thursday 24 November 2011 13:25:28 Sam Vagni wrote: > Well this is true that the real power is in cli and not in gui There is no reason why you should not use GUI for some time if you are more comfortable with it. I have been using Linux for 7 years and am at home on the CLI, but there are

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011/11/24 Sam Vagni : > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> Debian is a fine distribution; but there are others too. By the way, of >> course people here will extol the virtues of Debian - it is a Debian >> mailing list after all. > > Ok, I see. That really I forgot to consi

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:39:29 -0500, Sam Vagni wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Walter Hurry > wrote: > >> Debian is a fine distribution; but there are others too. By the way, of >> course people here will extol the virtues of Debian - it is a Debian >> mailing list after all. > > Ok, I

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