Re: Dynamic DNS updater recomendation?

2012-07-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/18/2012 3:00 PM, John W. Foster wrote: > I am seeking assistance from someone who has a bit of actual experience > in this arena. Any volunteers?? There are hundreds of dyndns providers. Pick one that works with your hardware. You're currently approaching this issue backwards. Do you have

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 09:08 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Also, I don't have a problem with paying for specialized software > [snip] as long as they run natively on my platform of choice. +1 and plus, nobody should have compunction when illegal using some software. I've got the privilege not to n

Re: Debian packages depending in libslang2

2012-07-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 18 iul 12, 01:35:25, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Is there a way to find all the Debian packages that depend upon libslang2? > Like I know that mc and slnr do, but how does one find them all? aptitude search ~Rlibslang2 or aptitude search ?reverse-depends(libslang2) Kind regards, And

Re: What does group consider to be "on topic"?

2012-07-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 18 iul 12, 14:47:16, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:18:00 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:57:11PM +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:06:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> > Oh, right! like if you turn your hazard lights on in your

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 19 iul 12, 01:17:49, Doug wrote: > > Sorry for the bandwidth, but I think the Linux user--I'm certainly > one of them--needs to realize what real specialized software is, and > what it costs to develop, and why it's not free. Please don't confuse free (beer) with free(dom). Also, I don't h

Re: "drive already mounted or busy" ... dmsetup routine

2012-07-18 Thread John Magolske
* Keith McKenzie [120718 07:17]: > Check that nothing else has been mounted over/on top of your mount > point. Nothing is mounted on that mount point. And this behaviour only happens with one particular hard drive: Connect problematic external hard drive into USB port and... # mount /dev/sd

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 17:53 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > I'm just as happy using straight alsa and building a dummy package. I'm a dummy(-package-builder) too, since it's more comfortable, than to rebuild some stuff without PA dependencies, which is possible too. However, here's the instruction

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Martin, high five :)! If PA is a help, people should use it, if it cause an issue, they shouldn't try to fix it, but getting rid of it. IMO it's not worth to waste time with setting up PA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 15:57 +, Camaleón wrote: > aRts was ESD's counterpart in KDE, IIRC. > > Anyway, we deserve the price to pay (PA can be complex to setup) for > having a full-featured and advanced sound server with interesting > capabilities regardless we use all of the features or not.

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-18 Thread Doug
On 07/18/2012 11:45 PM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:30:57 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: ... Personally I think one of the biggest appeals of Debian (and of Linux in general) is the commitment to freedom. IP laws and the degree to which hardware vendors support freedom is relevant to purcha

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/7/18 Brad Alexander > I need an opinion here. I had a 5 year old, lovingly upgraded > workstation with 32-bit sid up until I upgraded my hardware. I did a > nuke and pave and reinstalled amd64 sid. > > Sometime along the line, pulseaudio was installed, which broke sound > on the old setup. T

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-18 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:30:57 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: ... > Personally I think one of the biggest appeals of Debian (and of Linux in > general) is the commitment to freedom. IP laws and the degree to which > hardware vendors support freedom is relevant to purchasing decisions. I agree. > Debi

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/07/12 05:32 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Hi folks, While fascinating, this discussion has wandered seriously Off Topic. It's no longer appropriate for "debian-user", I think. I'm not a list-guru. Is there a debian list where it would be on-topic? If so, maybe we should take it there. Enjoy

Re: Dynamic DNS updater recomendation?

2012-07-18 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:00:28 -0500 "John W. Foster" wrote: > On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 14:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:24:20 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > > > > I need to be able to have afraid.org; a free dns server system, checked > > > and updated with the IP address f

Re: ssh problem (possible disk full)

2012-07-18 Thread lina
> > $ ssh badapple df -lh > Not work. the administrator can't ssh either. I don't know. at present just wait. Thanks, Best regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Small xorg?

2012-07-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - > From: Andrei POPESCU > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:57 AM > Subject: Re: Small xorg? > > On Mi, 18 iul 12, 10:37:14, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >> As I recall, only the required dependencies were installed.  I neede

Re: cron & file permissions

2012-07-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike McClain wrote: > I've a cron job run daily from /etc/crontab, Instead of using the BSD-style interface let me strongly encourage you to start using the newer Vixie-cron-style interface of /etc/cron.d/ where they can be separate and individual files. That way the file can be dropped into

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Brad Alexander
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:57:58 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > > (...) > >> So I tried to like pulse, tried to get along with it, but I'm having a >> really hard time with it. I am running sid with kde 4.x, and, to give >> one example (there are sev

[OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-18 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi folks, While fascinating, this discussion has wandered seriously Off Topic. It's no longer appropriate for "debian-user", I think. I'm not a list-guru. Is there a debian list where it would be on-topic? If so, maybe we should take it there. Enjoy! Rick On Jul 18, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Gary

cron & file permissions

2012-07-18 Thread Mike McClain
Howdy, I've a cron job run daily from /etc/crontab, the entry looks like this: 0 2 * * * root[ -d /mc/bin ] && /mc/bin/daily; /mc/bin/daily sets umask umask 037 # save files rw owner, group read only then runs a script like so: [ -e /mc/bin/secure ] && /mc/b

Re: pam authentication issue

2012-07-18 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i am trying to scan google for the solution for the said error since morning and i learn that this error is a bug and the issue has been occurred because the new version of library has replace the old one. and now i can not sort out which file could be replaced and how :( any advice / recommendat

Re: Dynamic DNS updater recomendation?

2012-07-18 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 14:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:24:20 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > > I need to be able to have afraid.org; a free dns server system, checked > > and updated with the IP address from my DHCP leased router provided by > > Verizon Fios. I have looked a

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > > On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 15:20 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> I'm very happy with the old ESD > > > > > > > > And you can be happy for good reasons! However, IIRC for KDE it was > > aRts and it never caused issues for my jack orientated workflow and > > p

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > Regarding your question of "keeping PA or not" I would give it a > chance, read the official docs¹ and if nothing helps to alleviate the > cranky- underwater sound and problems persist I would then reconsider > my decision. KDE users can be considered

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2012 schrieb Brad Alexander: > Now, I did a little research a couple of weeks ago, and found on the > Ubuntu wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/) that they recommend > installing several extra pulse-related packages. Is it worth it? Will > it fix my problems? Or is it no

Weather Report panel applet updates fail

2012-07-18 Thread Joshua
GNOME on Squeeze. When I first turn on the Weather Report panel applet and select my town, it works just fine. But then it will never update after that, neither automatically nor manually. If I remove it from the panel and re-add it, it gets the updated reading just fine. Any ideas what gives?

Re: Small xorg?

2012-07-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 18 iul 12, 10:37:14, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > As I recall, only the required dependencies were installed.  I needed > the system to be as lean as possible due to the RAM limitations, but > still be easily usable.  Perhaps, a little background for > clarification: > > The Thinkpad 240X

Re: "GNOME Help" conflicts with darklooks theme

2012-07-18 Thread Joshua
Yep, I'm using stable. Thanks for the advice, man. Should I try to see if I can replicate the bug elsewhere? I'm running Debian on virtual box from within xubuntu right now. I prefer Debian, so I could install it natively on the hard drive and see if the same thing happens there. I also have a

Re: Small xorg?

2012-07-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - > From: Patrick Strasser > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:43 PM > Subject: Re: Small xorg? > > Patrick Bartek wrote on 2012-07-06 04:00: > >>> That was I was planning:  window manager only.  [...] found that xorg, > plus a

Re: Flashplayer on Google Chrome

2012-07-18 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 18.07.2012 13:02, Lisi wrote: > This time, Flashplayer and Google Chrome both installed fine I didn't understand do you have package "flashplugin-nonfree". If you don't, you should install it. If you cannot find it from repositories, add somethin

Re: Flashplayer on Google Chrome

2012-07-18 Thread Soare Catalin
On Jul 18, 2012 1:00 PM, "Lisi" wrote: > > I reinstalled Squeeze and I now have Google Chrome installed and mostly > working. I used teh stable deb from Google, ratrher than use the > repositories and install chromium-browser. I used dpkg -i and installed teh > dependencies with apt-get -f insta

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:41:39 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 15:20 +, Camaleón wrote: >> I'm very happy with the old ESD > > And you can be happy for good reasons! However, IIRC for KDE it was aRts > and it never caused issues for my jack orientated workflow and pro-audio >

Re: I'm having way too much trouble mounting my blackberry SDCARD

2012-07-18 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:12:46 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > This should be sort of simple I think, and yet it turns out not to be. > > I want to mount my blackberry's sdcard on a wheezy machine I'm getting > an odd comment when I try the mount > > mount /mnt/bbsd > > Unable to find suitable addre

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 15:20 +, Camaleón wrote: > I'm very happy with the old ESD And you can be happy for good reasons! However, IIRC for KDE it was aRts and it never caused issues for my jack orientated workflow and pro-audio cards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: text size on CLI

2012-07-18 Thread Mike McClain
Hi Brian, On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:28:18AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 16 Jul 2012 at 22:36:20 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > > I'm talking about /dev/tty1-10, non-GUI console. > Fixed fonts have an upper limit to their size of 16. Anything larger and > you need to use the Terminus font. 'dp

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:57:58 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: (...) > So I tried to like pulse, tried to get along with it, but I'm having a > really hard time with it. I am running sid with kde 4.x, and, to give > one example (there are several I have noticed), when playing music with > Amarok, ever

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Ivo Ugrina
On 07/18/2012 01:57 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: > > So I tried to like pulse, tried to get along with it, but I'm having a > really hard time with it. I am running sid with kde 4.x, and, to give > one example (there are several I have noticed), when playing music > with Amarok, every time a screen i

Re: What does group consider to be "on topic"?

2012-07-18 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:18:00 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:57:11PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:06:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> > Oh, right! like if you turn your hazard lights on in your car you can >> > park anywhere you like. :( >> >> Wel

pam authentication issue

2012-07-18 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i am using a kvm-qemu proxmox front end as GUI. recently i installed ocsinventory-agent packege to update my inventory server my base machine successfully sent the inventory but now when i try to login to gui it browser refuse and give me an error "You could not be logged on. Make sure your user na

(Debugging help) Re: Shutting down error

2012-07-18 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:03:58 +, Camaleón wrote: > I'm running an updated wheezy and since weeks ago, when shutting down > (or restarting) the system I can see this message: > > [FAIL] Killing all remaining processes... failed. (...) > Anyone seeing this message? If not, how could I debug wh

Re: Can't run iceweasel [Couldn't load XPCOM]

2012-07-18 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:43:42 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > [...] > >> Does it happen the same when you launch iceweasel as another user? For >> instance: "gksu icewasel" > > Yes, looks just the same I'm out of ideas... Consider reporting the issue. Greetings, -- Camaleó

Re: What does group consider to be "on topic"?

2012-07-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:57:11PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:06:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Oh, right! like if you turn your hazard lights on in your car you can > > park anywhere you like. :( > > Well, exactly... that's what an OT flag is for: you are saying "hey,

Re: "GNOME Help" conflicts with darklooks theme

2012-07-18 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:43:09 -0400, Joshua wrote: > When using GNOME with the darklooks theme, which is white text on black > background, the GNOME help application displays its documents with black > text on black background. Even if I deselect the option 'use system > fonts', the problem persis

Re: Dynamic DNS updater recomendation?

2012-07-18 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:24:20 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I need to be able to have afraid.org; a free dns server system, checked > and updated with the IP address from my DHCP leased router provided by > Verizon Fios. I have looked at several of these & have installed a > couple. ddclient works

Re: what graphic card to buy?

2012-07-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/07/12 08:35 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:21:03AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: The original justification for patents was that the government would protect your invention for a short period if you told the world about how it works. I thought that too, but ... :( https:/

Re: What does group consider to be "on topic"?

2012-07-18 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:58:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:57:11PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:06:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 04:07:38PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Anyway, whether you are in doubt you can alw

Dynamic DNS updater recomendation?

2012-07-18 Thread John W. Foster
I need to be able to have afraid.org; a free dns server system, checked and updated with the IP address from my DHCP leased router provided by Verizon Fios. I have looked at several of these & have installed a couple. ddclient works flawlessly with DynDns.com but not with afraid.org 'out of the box

Re: what graphic card to buy?

2012-07-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:21:03AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > The original justification for patents was that the government > would protect your invention for a short period if you told the > world about how it works. I thought that too, but ... :( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Monopoli

Re: What does group consider to be "on topic"?

2012-07-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:57:11PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:06:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 04:07:38PM +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Anyway, whether you are in doubt you can always tag the subject > >> accordingly to avoid complains from the r

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-18 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> Gary Dale wrote: >> > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >> or just one thing if you please explain these commands. i think my >> >> confusion will be cleared >> >> mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 >> >> mdadm --ass

Re: [SOLVED] apt-pinning

2012-07-18 Thread Denis Witt
On 18.07.2012 10:31, Denis Witt wrote: I also created the file "php" in /etc/apt/preferences.d/ containing: Package: php* Pin: release n=squeeze Pin-Priority: 900 Package: libapache2-mod-php5 Pin: release n=squeeze Pin-Priority: 900 I got it working. apt obviously dislikes leadin

Re: apt-pinning

2012-07-18 Thread Denis Witt
On 18.07.2012 11:36, Mika Suomalainen wrote: I think that you should replace "n=squeeze" with "a=squeeze" in /etc/apt/preferences.d/php. Hi Mika, according to apt-cache policy the "n" is fine: 500 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main amd64 Packages release v=6.0,o=Debian,a=

Flashplayer on Google Chrome

2012-07-18 Thread Lisi
I reinstalled Squeeze and I now have Google Chrome installed and mostly working. I used teh stable deb from Google, ratrher than use the repositories and install chromium-browser. I used dpkg -i and installed teh dependencies with apt-get -f install. This time, Flashplayer and Google Chrome b

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:57:58PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: [cut] > > So I tried to like pulse, tried to get along with it, but I'm having a > really hard time with it. I am running sid with kde 4.x, and, to give > one example (there are several I have noticed), when playing music > with Amaro

Re: apt-pinning

2012-07-18 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 18.07.2012 11:31, Denis Witt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a machine with Wheezy installed, unfortunately I can't use > PHP5.4 due to a third party script which isn't compatible yet. > > So I added the Squeeze-Sources in my apt sources.list and > inst

Re: "GNOME Help" conflicts with darklooks theme

2012-07-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 02:43 -0400, Joshua wrote: > When using GNOME with the darklooks theme, which is white text on black > background, the GNOME help application displays its documents with black > text on black background. Even if I deselect the option 'use system > fonts', the problem persists

apt-pinning

2012-07-18 Thread Denis Witt
Hi, I have a machine with Wheezy installed, unfortunately I can't use PHP5.4 due to a third party script which isn't compatible yet. So I added the Squeeze-Sources in my apt sources.list and installed PHP5.3 from Squeeze. I also created the file "php" in /etc/apt/preferences.d/ containing:

Re: "drive already mounted or busy" ... dmsetup routine

2012-07-18 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 17 July 2012 21:30, John Magolske wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > * Camaleón [120711 16:09]: >> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:09:59 -0700, John Magolske wrote: >> >> > I've been having issues with a particular hard drive, where after a >> > suspend-resume cycle with s2ram, it won't mount: >> > >>