Re: Why does login_tty(int fd) close fd at the end?

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Regid Ichira wrote: >  Isn't closing fd at the end makes all the work meaningless? > >    $ man login_tty| grep -A6 'The  login_tty() ' >           The  login_tty()  function  prepares for a login on the tty fd >           (which may be a real tty device, or the sla

System crashes for no apparent reason

I am running a reasonably up-to-date Squeeze box (it has been a few days since I did an aptitude update and safe-upgrade). This problem has actually been occurring sporadically for a few weeks now. The system will simply die. I leave the computer on 24/7, normally without problems for weeks,

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On 06/06/12 14:06, Miles Bader wrote: > "Christofer C. Bell" writes: >>> Again, let MS rot in its malware hell. I don't care! Perhaps if MS had >>> been a bit more proactive a couple of decades ago we would not be having >>> this discussion. MSFT issues are not for us in the Debian or wider >>>

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On 06/06/12 13:35, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2012 05 Jun 21:45 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: >>> >>> Again, let MS rot in its malware hell. �I don't care! I'm all right Jack Great attitude. >> >> Comments like this make you look

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

"Christofer C. Bell" writes: >> Again, let MS rot in its malware hell.  I don't care!  Perhaps if MS had >> been a bit more proactive a couple of decades ago we would not be having >> this discussion.  MSFT issues are not for us in the Debian or wider >> Linux community to resolve. > > Comments li

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2012 05 Jun 21:45 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> > >> > Again, let MS rot in its malware hell.  I don't care!  Perhaps if MS had >> > been a bit more proactive a couple of dec

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

* On 2012 05 Jun 21:45 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > Again, let MS rot in its malware hell.  I don't care!  Perhaps if MS had > > been a bit more proactive a couple of decades ago we would not be having > > this discussion.  MSFT is

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On 6/5/2012 10:43 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: Again, let MS rot in its malware hell. I don't care! Perhaps if MS had been a bit more proactive a couple of decades ago we would not be having this discussion. MSFT issues are not for us in

error mosssages referring to alsa.

I have Squeeze installed on an IBM ThinkPad A22m. The /etc/apt/sources.list and hwinfo --sound follow. alsamixergui yields this message. alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: no such file or directory. VLC gives this message. Please update alsa-lib to version 1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Again, let MS rot in its malware hell.  I don't care!  Perhaps if MS had > been a bit more proactive a couple of decades ago we would not be having > this discussion.  MSFT issues are not for us in the Debian or wider > Linux community to re

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:26:55 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > >> Hello Camaleón, >> >> Camaleón wrote: >>> Microsoft (I can't tell for the rest of the hardware manufacturers >>> because their position is not mentioned in detail in the blog post) is

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:03:54 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > >> Hello Camaleón, >> >> Camaleón wrote: >>> For years, we've (the FLOSS community) been avoinding to be always >>> Windows dependant and now it seems we are going back to the darkest >>

Re: wifi cards

On 6/5/2012 7:48 PM, Chris Evans wrote: > i building a linux server i intend on using debian 6.0.5 as the OS and i > want to know what wireless pci adapters work with debian ? It is a far better solution to use your mobo-down 10/100/1000 port or PCI wired NIC with a wireless access point, such as:

Re: xml editor ?

Try out LXDE. Its Window manager is openbox and the configuration file is xml based. However, I found little difficulty configuring it for special cases. On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 05/06/12 05:16 PM, istimsak abdulbasir wrote: > >> On 03/06/12 09:52, Frank McCormi

Re: wifi cards

On 6/5/2012 7:48 PM, Chris Evans wrote: > i building a linux server i intend on using debian 6.0.5 as the OS and i > want to know what wireless pci adapters work with debian ? > > More pointed, http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi#PCI_Devices -- Keep well, Chris <>< -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: wifi cards

On 6/5/2012 7:48 PM, Chris Evans wrote: > i building a linux server i intend on using debian 6.0.5 as the OS and i > want to know what wireless pci adapters work with debian ? > > Have a look here: http://wiki.debian.org/Hardware -- Keep well, Chris <>< -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

wifi cards

i building a linux server i intend on using debian 6.0.5 as the OS and i want to know what wireless pci adapters work with debian ?

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

* On 2012 05 Jun 14:06 -0500, Tom H wrote: > But, if a distribution didn't react post-the-white-paper either on its > own or in cooperation with Fedora and/or Ubuntu, then it has no right > to complain now. Even if Debian had been contacted, how does this mess fit into the DFSG and Social Contract

Re: [OT] Re: Computer case

On 06/05/2012 06:44 PM, istimsak abdulbasir wrote: Hi :) any recommendation for a computer case that can be used with Debian stable ;)? Ok, it's slightly OT, I'm sorry for that. However, experiences with cases regarding to noise (and heat), accuracy of fit for cards are interesting for me, other

Re: xml editor ?

On 05/06/12 05:16 PM, istimsak abdulbasir wrote: On 03/06/12 09:52, Frank McCormick wrote: I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's configuration file. Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the "best" GUI editor which handles XML ?? Than

Solved sort of - Re: Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections........

>Thanks for your help Chris and you also Brian. But I think that it's >something to do with my /home partition and I'm going to format it and >reinstall again and see if something changes. >I have backups of the files and data, so will not lose anything. >Thanks for your help. It's appreciated.

Re: wpa_supplicant.wlan1.pid

On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 15:41:57 + (UTC) "Camaleón noela...@gmail.com" suggested this: >Okay, let's back to the warning message and the behaviour you get. >Some questions: > >1/ Despite the warning on the PID, is the wireless connection still >available and working? Yes, it appears to pick it u

Re: [OT] Re: Computer case

Hi :) any recommendation for a computer case that can be used with Debian stable ;)? Ok, it's slightly OT, I'm sorry for that. However, experiences with cases regarding to noise (and heat), accuracy of fit for cards are interesting for me, others might be interested in space (and vertical stabilit

Re: ad-hoc wireless connection with Netgear N150 USB adapter

In the meantime I found that the ath9k_htc driver *doesn't support* ad-hoc mode. Unfortunately I missed this information before opening the thread. I didn't find more details on the rtl8192cu. I'll get an AP and try the ath9k_htc driver in AP mode, which seem to be supported. I will update this

Re: Finding files

Fred Zinsli: > > I am attempting to create a script (#!/bin/sh) that searches for files > created on the first day of the week, then on the first day of the month, > then the first day of the year. as seperate events. All the files are in > one directory so easy to find, though the files could hav

Re: mp280

Never used that printer :( On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:26 PM, steef wrote: > > dear martin, > > thank you for your answer. the canon company has the appropriate > linux-software, which i installed and which is working like a charm. > > my problem is still the lack of (x)sane_backend_software: allth

Re: Re: xml editor ?

On 03/06/12 09:52, Frank McCormick wrote: > > I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's > configuration file. > Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the > "best" GUI editor which handles XML ?? > > Thanks What windows manager are you using? On T

[OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

I won't send them a gift but if Fedora's the only distribution to support Secure Boot, then it's the only one that I'll recommend to friends (independently from installing and providing support for Debian servers at some of my jobs) because I don't want to have to tell them "to install Linux or ev

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On 05/06/12 22:12, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Then for computers with very high uptime secure boot is moot, they'll > get compromised while running and happily join botnets all the same. > Attacks targeting the bootloader aren't common, they usually are > targeted attacks of the kind that w

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On 05/06/2012 22:07, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Apologies for the mangled nested quotes in the previous message, hope this one fairs better. On 05/06/2012 20:59, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Roger, Roger Leigh wrote: [snip] However, I welcome the fact that attacks on Windows will be m

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On 05/06/2012 20:59, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Roger, Roger Leigh wrote: [snip] However, I welcome the fact that attacks on Windows will be made more difficult, since that also means smaller botnets, fewer vulnerable computers etc. It will have zero effect. Not only was the certificate

Wheezy as internet gateway: lost connections

Hello list, I have a small home network and using a Wheezy installation as the gateway here. Since the gateway is running wheezy I'm experiencing dropped (tcp) connections. I observer this behaviour with both another Wheezy installation (desktop) and with a Windows 7 machine. The problem didn't oc

Re: Finding files

Hello Fred, Fred Zinsli wrote: > I am attempting to create a script (#!/bin/sh) that searches for files > created on the first day of the week, then on the first day of the month, > then the first day of the year. as seperate events. All the files are in > one directory so easy to find, though th

Why does login_tty(int fd) close fd at the end?

Isn't closing fd at the end makes all the work meaningless? $ man login_tty| grep -A6 'The login_tty() ' The login_tty() function prepares for a login on the tty fd (which may be a real tty device, or the slave of a pseudoter- minal as returned by op

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On 05/06/12 21:07, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:26:55 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: >>> >>> However, I welcome the fact that attacks on Windows will be made more >>> difficult, since that also means smaller botnets, fewer vulnerable >>> co

Finding files

Hi all I have been searching this for a couple of hours now and can't seem to find what I am looking for. Google was my friend until now. But I may be asking the wrong question. I am attempting to create a script (#!/bin/sh) that searches for files created on the first day of the week, then on

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:26:55 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: >> >> However, I welcome the fact that attacks on Windows will be made more >> difficult, since that also means smaller botnets, fewer vulnerable >> computers etc. > > That's the problem: we

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:11:19 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:52:22 +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: i was reading this article - http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html I

wifi is not working now

Hi there I am using debian sid w/ kde ..The driver is http:brcm80211 just I rebooted and I then no wifi ... also in Iwconfig I dont get a output about wlan0 and the weird thing is that in lspci I got root@Debian:/home/jemadux# lspci |grep -i Net 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor C

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

Hello Roger, Roger Leigh wrote: > This depends upon the hardware. You might not be able to disable it. > In fact, Microsoft *require* that it can't be disabled on ARM hardware > carrying a "certified for Windows 8" (or whatever) badge. This > hardware will only be capable of booting signed code

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 07:26:55PM +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Camaleón, > > Camaleón wrote: > > Microsoft (I can't tell for the rest of the hardware manufacturers > > because their position is not mentioned in detail in the blog post) is > > forcing a needing for something I (and I gu

Archiver supporting POSIX ACLs, file caps and xattrs?

I'd like to dump an ext3 filesystem which might uses xattrs and might use file capabilities. I'd very much like to pipe its output to another machine (via netcat or some other means) which frames out fsarchiver [1] which requires lseeks() on the file it generates. So I'd like to use something like

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

Hi, Dňa Tue, 5 Jun 2012 13:01:27 -0500 Nate Bargmann napísal: > > You will have to disable secure boot or add the key used to sign the > > bootloader to your computer. > > Only if those options are made available by the manufacturer. in our country is more and more difficult to buy computer (s

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

* On 2012 05 Jun 13:02 -0500, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > And remember > > Debian has not a time-based schedule for their releases > > That's awkward, i was under the impression there was a change some > years back so that the stable branch would ch

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

* On 2012 05 Jun 12:26 -0500, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Doug, > > Doug wrote: > > I read the referenced post. It looks to me like Fedora will boot > > without hassle, because they paid off Microsoft, and obtained a key, > > but everything else, not having a key, will not. > > Yes. More prec

Re: Email headers in the digest

On Jun 5, 2012 10:27 AM, "Curt Howland" wrote: > Maybe I'm the only person getting the group though debian-user-digest, > and maybe I'm the only one reading it in plain text, but has anyone > else noticed the HUGE increase in the quantity of digests, which > consist mostly of the expanded headers

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Camaleón wrote: > And remember > Debian has not a time-based schedule for their releases That's awkward, i was under the impression there was a change some years back so that the stable branch would change to a 6 months release schedule. Did that never go through o

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On 05/06/12 19:26, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Camaleón, > > Camaleón wrote: >> Microsoft (I can't tell for the rest of the hardware >> manufacturers because their position is not mentioned in detail >> in the blog post) is forcing a needing for something I (and I >> guess others) _don't need_,

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:26:55 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Camaleón, > > Camaleón wrote: >> Microsoft (I can't tell for the rest of the hardware manufacturers >> because their position is not mentioned in detail in the blog post) is >> forcing a needing for something I (and I guess others

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:11:19 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:52:22 +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: >>> >>> i was reading this article - http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html >>> >>> It is written by someone related to redhat and it desc

Email headers in the digest

Dear Debian-User, Maybe I'm the only person getting the group though debian-user-digest, and maybe I'm the only one reading it in plain text, but has anyone else noticed the HUGE increase in the quantity of digests, which consist mostly of the expanded headers of every piece of mail? And no longe

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

Hello Camaleón, Camaleón wrote: > Microsoft (I can't tell for the rest of the hardware manufacturers > because their position is not mentioned in detail in the blog post) is > forcing a needing for something I (and I guess others) _don't need_, like > TPM modules, using a password in GRUB2, us

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:03:54 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Camaleón, > > Camaleón wrote: >> For years, we've (the FLOSS community) been avoinding to be always >> Windows dependant and now it seems we are going back to the darkest >> ages. >> >> Repeat with me: we-don't-need-Windows-anymo

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

Hello Doug, Doug wrote: > I read the referenced post. It looks to me like Fedora will boot > without hassle, because they paid off Microsoft, and obtained a key, > but everything else, not having a key, will not. Yes. More precisely, they want to get a small piece of software signed by Microsof

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:52:22 +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: >> >> i was reading this article - http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html >> >> It is written by someone related to redhat and it describes implementing >> UEFI secure boot in Fedora Core. >

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

Hello Camaleón, Camaleón wrote: > For years, we've (the FLOSS community) been avoinding to be always > Windows dependant and now it seems we are going back to the darkest ages. > > Repeat with me: we-don't-need-Windows-anymore. This does not depend on Windows but on something else: A position

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On 06/05/2012 12:26 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Doug, Doug wrote: I think you understand this INcorrectly! He does not. If _I_ understand it, You don’t. the machine will not boot anything that is not signed with the key, You can add any keys you want to that. UEFI is simply a framew

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:31:01 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Camaleón, > > Camaleón wrote: >> IMO, Fedora did *the wrong thing* > > Why? They get their release to boot on most/all computers. That’s a good > thing, isn’t it? No when there's a price to pay for that. For years, we've (the

Re: alsa

On 05/06/12 14:21, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2012/6/5 john gennard > On 05/06/12 10:22, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2012/6/5 john gennard mailto:joney1...@btinternet.com>> root@debian:/# ps ax|grep pulse 2620 pts/2S+ 0:00 grep puls

Re: Apache, mod_rewrite and directory context

Hello Jimmy, Jimmy Thrasibule wrote: > > > > RewriteEngine On > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico > RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA] > > > http://httpd.ap

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

Hello Camaleón, Camaleón wrote: > IMO, Fedora did *the wrong thing* Why? They get their release to boot on most/all computers. That’s a good thing, isn’t it? > (since when blindly following what > Microsoft -or any other company- does is the correct way to achieve a > milestone?) Given the a

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

Hello Doug, Doug wrote: > I think you understand this INcorrectly! He does not. >If _I_ understand it, You don’t. > the > machine will not boot anything that is not signed with the key, You can add any keys you want to that. UEFI is simply a framework, and because most computers will want t

Re: Modify Thermal trip points, modern kernel acpi /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/

On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:30:06 +0800, Bob wrote: > On 05/31/2012 12:48 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 30 May 2012 13:37:35 +0800, Bob wrote: >> >>> Hi on my laptop (ASUS EeePC 1215b) an AMD E-450 based system the >>> current open source drivers in Wheezy don't manage power very well so >>> the syste

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On 06/05/2012 04:01 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 12:52 +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: i was reading this article - http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html [snip] Will Debian community fight against this evil step taken by computer makers ? [snip] IIUC this only will effect multi-b

Re: wpa_supplicant.wlan1.pid

On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:13:18 +1000, Charlie wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:25:18 + (UTC) "Camaleón noela...@gmail.com" > suggested this: > >>> I get this message: >>> >>> Sometimes the connection fails and sometimes it continues on as here: >>> >>> bound to xxx.xxx.x.xxx -- renewal in 3421

Re: gnome classic: how to set default applications

On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:24:39 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > Hola! Hola :-) > This is debian Wheezyome sid, amd64. > > I am now back og Gnome classic. I don't like much "document reader", and > want to set defaul application for reading pdf's to okular. ¿How can I > do that? It sho

Re: what did hwinfo do to my machine? - SOLVED

On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:09:24 -0400, Dan B. wrote: > Miles Fidelman wrote: >> Dan B. wrote: >>> >>> Thanks to some suggestions that somehow caused me to check basic >>> floppy access, I discovered that the problem was ... (get ready for a >>> big letdown) ... a loose floppy cable. Hey, congrats fo

Re: what did hwinfo do to my machine?

On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:10:26 -0700, owens wrote: >> (GRUB takes about 8 seconds between displaying the the "Welcome to >> GRUB!" text and the "error: fd0 read error." > ^ > > (...) > > Well, that error can be relevant. > > Try to disable the floppy disk controller (or any ot

gnome classic: how to set default applications

Hola! This is debian Wheezyome sid, amd64. I am now back og Gnome classic. I don't like much "document reader", and want to set defaul application for reading pdf's to okular. ¿How can I do that? Kjetil -- "If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forev

Re: what did hwinfo do to my machine? - SOLVED

On 2012-06-05, Dan B. wrote: >> >> What the heck did hwinfo do to my machine? > > Thanks to some suggestions that somehow caused me to check basic floppy > access, I discovered that the problem was ... (get ready for a big > letdown) ... a loose floppy cable. So you're saying when you typed "hwi

Re: alsa

On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:27:54 +0100, john gennard wrote: > On 04/06/12 18:03, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:27:25 +0100, john gennard wrote: >> >> (please, avoid sending html formatted posts) >> >> > I wasn't aware that I did. Must be this email package - I can't send > emails from Mutt

Re: epson printer prints WHITE PAGE !!!

On 2012-06-03, J. Bakshi wrote: > > Dear list, > > I have a epson C20SX parallel printer. I have bought a parallel to usb cable > so that > I can use it with my laptop. After connecting the cable I have seen the new > H/W has been > detected. This page says the printer is supported by Gimp-Prin

Re: Setting up the scanner

On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:09:33 +0200, steef wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:34:08 +0200, steef wrote: >> >> (...) >><...> > > sane-find-scanner -v showed the MP280_scanner > > scanimage -L had no results. so it seems plausible that there is no > sane backend for

Re: [solved] Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:18:09 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:28:27 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: (...) > Camaleón writes: > >> Having swap can help but in your case, with as little as 216 MB of RAM >> I don't know if that would be enough. > > > Well, the cause of the pr

Re: The question of Wheezy

On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:07:55 +0400, Парфенович Никита wrote: > Hello! Sorry for my English. Could you tell me how do I install Debian > Wheezy? Does anyone else what that means, except for installation of > Squeeze, and upgrade to Wheezy? Is there a setup CD, which can set it > Wheezy? Thank you!

[OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:52:22 +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: (please, no html, thanks...) > i was reading this article - http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html > > It is written by someone related to redhat and it describes implementing > UEFI secure boot in Fedora Core. > > Lot of PC/laptop/table

Re: alsa

2012/6/5 john gennard > ** > On 05/06/12 10:22, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > 2012/6/5 john gennard > >> root@debian:/# ps ax|grep pulse >> 2620 pts/2S+ 0:00 grep pulse >> >> root@debian:/# service pulseaudio stop >> pulseaudio: unrecognized service >> >> root@debian:/# service alsa-uti

Re: Re: xml editor ?

Take a look at Liquid XML Studio 2012, http://www.liquid-technologies.com/xml-editor.aspx We've also just released Service Pack 1 which includes support for XML Catalogs like OASIS and many other improvements. Regards Liquid Technologies Ltd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2012 schrieb Rodolfo Medina: > Hi. Hi Rodolfo, > Suppose that I have, in a certain directory and all its subdirs and > subdirs' subdirs' subdirs... etc., a certain number of files > terminating with `~', e.g.: `myfile~', and that I want to remove all > of them recursively. I

Re: Troubleshooting Debian

Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 01:20:58PM +1000, terryc wrote: > > On 05/06/12 03:55, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I've told O'Reilly that their books are rather useless for trouble > > shooting or learning for the average person. > > Ouch!, what did

Re: alsa

On 05/06/12 12:53, Mika Suomalainen wrote: On 04.06.2012 19:27, john gennard wrote: /I have Debian 6.05 installed, but on bootup alsa fails. Realtek ALC887 8 channel High Definition Audio Codec is incorporated on the Motherboard and works since I can play CDs using Sound Juicer. I've 'stumb

Re: alsa

On 05/06/12 10:22, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2012/6/5 john gennard > root@debian:/# ps ax|grep pulse 2620 pts/2S+ 0:00 grep pulse root@debian:/# service pulseaudio stop pulseaudio: unrecognized service root@debian:/# service alsa-util

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 12:15:24PM BST, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 12:01 +0100, rjc wrote: > > > Suppose that I have, in a certain directory and all its subdirs and > > > subdirs' > > > subdirs' subdirs... etc., a certain number of files terminating with `~', > > > e.g.: >

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:14:59 +0100 Chris Bannister napísal: > On 05/06/12 13:12, Slavko wrote: > > > very bad idea, if the file name has spaces… > > > > Try: > > > > find . -name '*~' -print0 | xargs -0 rm > > > or you could just use the -delete option in find. Much simpler. > yes, th

[solved] Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

Chris Bannister writes: > On 05/06/12 11:42, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Suppose that I have, in a certain directory and all its subdirs and subdirs' >> subdirs' subdirs... etc., a certain number of files terminating with `~', >> e.g.: `myfile~', and that I want to remove all of them recursively.

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On 05.06.2012 13:07, Парфенович Никита wrote: > Hello! Sorry for my English. Could you tell me how do I install Debian > Wheezy? Does anyone else what that means, except for installation of Squeeze, > and upgrade to Wheezy? Is there a setup CD, which can set it Wheezy? Thank > you! > I think t

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

On 05/06/12 13:12, Slavko wrote: very bad idea, if the file name has spaces… Try: find . -name '*~' -print0 | xargs -0 rm replace the '.' by your paths..., you can add the '-f' option to rm, to avoid error messages, if something will be wrong (directory with name '*~' and '*~' files in it)

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 05 Jun 2012 06:54:29 -0400 rbmj napísal: > find -name '*~' | xargs rm very bad idea, if the file name has spaces… Try: find . -name '*~' -print0 | xargs -0 rm replace the '.' by your paths..., you can add the '-f' option to rm, to avoid error messages, if something will be wro

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

find -name '*~' | xargs rm

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On 04.06.2012 19:27, john gennard wrote: > /I have Debian 6.05 installed, but on bootup alsa fails. Realtek ALC887 > 8 channel > High Definition Audio Codec is incorporated on the Motherboard and works > since I can play CDs using Sound Juicer. > > I've 'stumbled around' looking for an answer, but

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On 05/31/2012 12:48 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2012 13:37:35 +0800, Bob wrote: Hi on my laptop (ASUS EeePC 1215b) an AMD E-450 based system the current open source drivers in Wheezy don't manage power very well so the system overheats& the battery doesn't last long. [0] You mean the

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 12:01 +0100, rjc wrote: > > Suppose that I have, in a certain directory and all its subdirs and subdirs' > > subdirs' subdirs... etc., a certain number of files terminating with `~', > > e.g.: > > `myfile~', and that I want to remove all of them recursively. Is there a >

Re: Troubleshooting Debian

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 01:20:58PM +1000, terryc wrote: > On 05/06/12 03:55, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I've told O'Reilly that their books are rather useless for trouble > shooting or learning for the average person. Ouch!, what did he say? Also, I have trouble envisioning the average person. P

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:42:35AM BST, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi. Hi, > Suppose that I have, in a certain directory and all its subdirs and subdirs' > subdirs' subdirs... etc., a certain number of files terminating with `~', > e.g.: > `myfile~', and that I want to remove all of them recursivel

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

Hi! Sorry about my answer; I misinterpreted what you meant by "all of them". I thought it meant any file and subdirectory and was wondering why you couldn't think of "rm -f". When I read the other responses, I realized you were probably only referring to the files ending in ~. Florian -- To

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

Hi! How about rm -r? Florian -- 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/7df99bde42a39b328bb10653701e7bc8-EhVaXlhEQB8JBgYCAQQGZx8aNEQGDggdMB8QRjBSWV5aVl8WXlx2H1d

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

On 05/06/12 12:45, Nuno Magalhães wrote: A combination of "find" and "rm" will probably do. But careful when using find and rm as there's no 'undo', files are permanently deleted forever. In case something goes wrong you may lose data! Play safe, e.g. by echoing the files which would be remove

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

On 05/06/12 11:42, Rodolfo Medina wrote: *posted to the list this time* Suppose that I have, in a certain directory and all its subdirs and subdirs' subdirs' subdirs... etc., a certain number of files terminating with `~', e.g.: `myfile~', and that I want to remove all of them recursively. Is

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

A combination of "find" and "rm" will probably do. -- "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- 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/cadqa9uy7f1nacbz

Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

Hi. Suppose that I have, in a certain directory and all its subdirs and subdirs' subdirs' subdirs... etc., a certain number of files terminating with `~', e.g.: `myfile~', and that I want to remove all of them recursively. Is there a Unix command to do that right away? Thanks for any help Rodolf

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