Re: KVM problem

2012-03-11 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday 08 March 2012 18:52:03 Neal Murphy wrote: > Howdy! > > A friend is having the devil's own time trying to get qemu-kvm working for > himself. I have no such trouble. I fired up my test dual-core athlon and installed Squebian Deeze. And encountered problems similar to those my friend h

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-11 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 11 March 2012 3:27:51 pm Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 01:09:10PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my > > work, archived documents & templates this is working out better, for my > > use scenario, than LO ver

Re: Ctrl-/ interpreted as Backspace in text console

2012-03-11 Thread Liu Binsheng
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:39:27PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 00:56:12 +0800, Liu Binsheng wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I press Ctrl-/ in the text console, it deletes a char like > > backspace. But if I use Gnome and press Ctrl-/ in gnome-terminal, > > Ctrl-/ behaves nor

Re: Cron, > 1 month but < 2 months

2012-03-11 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:42:25 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote: C> According to this page[1], the following works for that: C>* * */45 * * your_scheduled_task C> I've not tried it myself. I'd use a timestamp file in conjunction with find; what happens when your 45-day interval crosses

Re: recent version of iceape buggy?

2012-03-11 Thread H.S.
On 10/03/12 01:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Before anything, I would first try with an empty and fresh browser > profile and check if you still experience the slowness when typing at the > location bar from there. I tried that today. It happens in the new profile as well. Mostly when I am entering

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 01:09:10PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my work, > archived documents & templates this is working out better, for my use > scenario, > than LO ver 3.4.x and later. That's interesting. Do you mean there ar

Re: CUPS

2012-03-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 01:44 PM 3/11/2012, Brian wrote: On Sat 10 Mar 2012 at 21:27:06 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > ethan@rosenberg:/var/www/Webpages2$ ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/ > total 508 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7250 Mar 2 16:54 beh > -rwx-- 1 root root 21284 Dec 26 22:43 cups-pdf > -rwxr--r-- 3 root

Re: customizing the menu bar

2012-03-11 Thread Charles Krinke
Perhaps alt-right click Charles On Mar 11, 2012 12:38 PM, "abdelkader belahcene" wrote: > hi, > i tried the testing version wheezy, which runs gnome3. > i want to customize the menu bar by adding a button ( the arrow on left > or right on gnome2) to hide or show the bar. > > often i want to u

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs from sources.list, but also au

OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-11 Thread Greg Madden
I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my work, archived documents & templates this is working out better, for my use scenario, than LO ver 3.4.x and later. There are differences between AOO & LO, significant enough to warrant having a choice in Debian of which one

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs >> from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages installed >> from that PPA to the versions available in the official archives. > >

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >>> >>> Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs >>> from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any pa

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> >> Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs >> from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages installed >> from that PPA to the versions availa

Re: customizing the menu bar

2012-03-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:20:46 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > i tried the testing version wheezy, which runs gnome3. i want to > customize the menu bar by adding a button ( the arrow on left or right > on gnome2) to hide or show the bar. > > often i want to use entire screen, the bar dist

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
I don't know the ""ppa-purge" script. A good tool to identify from which source installed packages are coming seems to me "apt-get-versions". Piping the output to a grep command similar to the following for a mixed (from testing, unstable, and experimental) system $ apt-show-versions | grep -Ev '/

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs > from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages installed > from that PPA to the versions available in the official archives. > > Has anyone ever written

Re: [vastly OT] Audiobooks

2012-03-11 Thread Glenn English
On Mar 11, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Julien Claassen wrote: > What I didn't like about them even before, was their audio quality, which > leaves a lot to be desired. I used to edit audio for BJ Harrison, one of Audiobooks' readers. I've heard a lot of abysmal sound from several audio book suppliers,

customizing the menu bar

2012-03-11 Thread abdelkader belahcene
hi, i tried the testing version wheezy, which runs gnome3. i want to customize the menu bar by adding a button ( the arrow on left or right on gnome2) to hide or show the bar. often i want to use entire screen, the bar disturb me. please where can i do it? the right click on the bar is disab

Re: force-confmiss does not work

2012-03-11 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > I'm trying to reinstall smb.conf file as it came with samba-common. > > However, even when I reinstall samba-common (into which it seems to appear) > with the force-confmiss option, it won't get reinstlled: > > # apt-get -o DPkg::

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs > from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages installed > from that PPA to the versions available in the official archives. The only idea scares me :-

Re: wheezy: disable X11 screen blanking

2012-03-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:09:21 -0700, Aaron Marks wrote: > I am using Debian wheezy and X11 on x86-64. I noticed that after five > minutes with no input or so, my screen is blacked. How can I disable > this feature? I DO have xset -dpms s off in my .xsession BTW., but this > does not help. Check if

Re: Audiobooks

2012-03-11 Thread Julien Claassen
Lisi! Let me hazard a guess, since I've come across a few of their audiobooks, before they started this DRM protection; They just convince in numbers! I think - this is just supposition - they buy from other companies and just make the digital versions of the audiobooks and collect them in on

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 02:04:46AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 08 mar 12, 18:56:19, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > I'm a bit of a novice, so my terminology may be off. But by "public" I > > mean a torrent that I upload to any public tracker, like > > thepiratebay or something. Anyone could

Re: If you own an ASUS notebook, please test latest v4l-utils

2012-03-11 Thread Gregor Jasny
Hello, On 3/11/12 6:28 PM, Valerio De Benedetto wrote: > No good for my K52JU laptop, the image is still upside down. > cat /sys/class/dmi/id/board_name reports K52JU, on debian wheezy The K52* laptops are definitely part of the upside down table of v4l-utils 0.8.6: > http://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-

Re: CUPS

2012-03-11 Thread Brian
On Sat 10 Mar 2012 at 21:27:06 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > ethan@rosenberg:/var/www/Webpages2$ ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/ > total 508 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7250 Mar 2 16:54 beh > -rwx-- 1 root root 21284 Dec 26 22:43 cups-pdf > -rwxr--r-- 3 root root 18096 Mar 5 02:52 dnssd > -rwxr

Re: force-confmiss does not work

2012-03-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:31:41 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > I'm trying to reinstall smb.conf file as it came with samba-common. (...) Only that config file? stt005:/usr/share/samba# locate smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz /usr/share/samba/smb.conf /usr/shar

Re: force-confmiss does not work

2012-03-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-03-11 17:31 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > I'm trying to reinstall smb.conf file as it came with samba-common. > > However, even when I reinstall samba-common (into which it seems to > appear) with the force-confmiss option, it won't get reinstlled: This happens because the file /

Re: If you own an ASUS notebook, please test latest v4l-utils

2012-03-11 Thread Valerio De Benedetto
No good for my K52JU laptop, the image is still upside down. cat /sys/class/dmi/id/board_name reports K52JU, on debian wheezy please fix this, if you can Valerio

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:00:48AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 10 mar 12, 19:48:21, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > > Aren't you trying to do something that BT doesn't do? BT is good when you > > have lots of people who want to download a file and lots of people have the > > file. Then tr

Re: Debian wheezy: unattended upgrades

2012-03-11 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2012-03-11 17:13, Aaron Marks skrev: Unfortunately new packages are not installed. That's what my unattended-upgrades.log looks like: 2012-03-11 07:03:24,239 INFO Initial blacklisted packages: 2012-03-11 07:04:15,883 INFO Starting unattended upgrades script 2012-03-11 07:04:21,575 INFO Allowed o

Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Hello, Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages installed from that PPA to the versions available in the official archives. Has anyone ever written something similar for Debian? I'm thinking of a script tha

Re: [SOLVED] Encrypted LVM and failed message

2012-03-11 Thread Daniele Guerrieri
Thank You! Daniele 2012/3/8 Claudius Hubig > Hello Daniele, > > Daniele Guerrieri wrote: > > Every time I START the system, just before the prompt for passphrase, > there > > are some complaints about the / filesystem: something like "Cannot find > > harpsiRoot volume" and also mobprobe: unix m

force-confmiss does not work

2012-03-11 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, I'm trying to reinstall smb.conf file as it came with samba-common. However, even when I reinstall samba-common (into which it seems to appear) with the force-confmiss option, it won't get reinstlled: # apt-get -o DPkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" --reinstall install samba-common Read

Debian wheezy: unattended upgrades

2012-03-11 Thread Aaron Marks
I am using Debian wheezy and unattended-upgrades. I would like to install all updates automatically. That's my sources.list: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ whe

wheezy: disable X11 screen blanking

2012-03-11 Thread Aaron Marks
Hi, I am using Debian wheezy and X11 on x86-64. I noticed that after five minutes with no input or so, my screen is blacked. How can I disable this feature? I DO have xset -dpms s off in my .xsession BTW., but this does not help. Thanks a lot! Aaron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Audiobooks

2012-03-11 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 11 March 2012 10:29:29 Jirka wrote: > I am audible customer for years and I really recommend it. I am totally > addicted on their books :-) Out of interest, what makes them any better than any other audio books? How can one be addicted to a particular brand of audio book?? Lisi --

Re: Audiobooks

2012-03-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:29:29AM +, Jirka wrote: > the aa files from Audible are DRM protected. I think there are two ways how > to > play them without windows or mac. > > The first is to install the audible PC software into wine. I haven't tried it > myself, but it is supposed to work.

Re: latest chrome won't play videos full screen

2012-03-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:43:20 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > Anyone experiencing an issue I have discovered after a chrome update > yesterday. Videos will no longer play full screen. What's the behaviour you're getting (browser crashes/freezes, no video opened...)? > Firefox(Iceweasel) display

Re: Debian 6.0.4 i386 /usr/bin/time command line arguments broken?

2012-03-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:00:37 -0600, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > David Christensen, 10.03.2012: >> debian-user: >> >> I was attempting to use the "time" command to do some benchmarking >> today, and it seems that command line arguments are broken (see console >> session, below). >> >> >> Any sugge

Re: How to share the Internet with Linux and an iPad by Wi-Fi?

2012-03-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 00:38 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I tested what happens, if I install the needed packages to Mint Lisa. > The LED always will flash and iwlist scanning will find something [snip] > I'll copy the config files to > Mint, since all Debian and Debian derivatives are similar. [sn

Re: [1/8OT] How to open .cgi

2012-03-11 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Saturday 10 March 2012 10:50:14 pm David Christensen wrote: > On 03/10/2012 05:03 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > You misunderstand CGI. It is a way that a script that generates a web > > page can have that page displayed in a browser window. CGI is internal > > to the web browser. You use a lan

Re: recent version of iceape buggy?

2012-03-11 Thread H.S.
On 10/03/12 01:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:12:51 -0500, H.S. wrote: > >> Since the last some days, I am experiencing a slowness and sluggishness >> in the text I type in Iceape's location bar (this version of iceape has >> the new blue logo). For the first some times, it appear

Re: big problem with TP-LINK WiFi card

2012-03-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:33:02 +0100, Bernard wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> There are many issues reported for system freezes regarding that kernel >> module (ath9k), there is even a documented bug at the Linuxwireless >> site: >> >> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k/bugs#Hangs_with_

Re: Cron, > 1 month but < 2 months

2012-03-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:42:25 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:09:23 +, T o n g wrote: >> >>> Is there any easy way to schedule a job for a duration that is greater >>> than one month but shorter than 2 months? Any du

Re: Audiobooks

2012-03-11 Thread Jirka
Sian Mountbatten fastmail.co.uk> writes: > > I received a DVD from Amazon which came with a slip of paper saying > Download 1 FREE AUDIOBOOK > I went to the site, signed up for 30 days free membership, selected a > book and downloaded two files of type .aa. I noticed that the only > softwa

Re: latest chrome won't play videos full screen

2012-03-11 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Are they flash videos? Do they play normally without full screen? Are you using non-free flash or gnash? You can check the answer to that last question from going to "about:plugins" in Google Chrome. Find "Flash" there and see what does it say. I

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 mar 12, 19:48:21, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Aren't you trying to do something that BT doesn't do? BT is good when you > have lots of people who want to download a file and lots of people have the > file. Then transmitting the file is broken up among many people. In your > case > on

Re: How to share the Internet with Linux and an iPad by Wi-Fi?

2012-03-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 11 mar 12, 00:38:40, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I tested what happens, if I install the needed packages to Mint Lisa. > The LED always will flash and iwlist scanning will find something [1]. Why do you think the LED is relevant for using the card in Master mode? > Before I restore something

latest chrome won't play videos full screen

2012-03-11 Thread Alan Chandler
Anyone experiencing an issue I have discovered after a chrome update yesterday. Videos will no longer play full screen. Firefox(Iceweasel) display just fine. Is there any known way around the limitation -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk