Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Adrian Levi
On Dec 22, 2011 4:16 PM, "Paul Wise" wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a way to replace my current home network infrastructure > with a single device running Debian. I currently have these devices: Billion Bipac 7404vgnox does what you want except for cordless phone, local storage and Debian

Re: intel i5, system config question

2011-12-21 Thread Adrian Levi
Vanilla kernel sources have a roof.deb build target. ;-) On Dec 22, 2011 4:21 PM, "Johan Grönqvist" wrote: > 2011-12-22 02:02, yudi v skrev: > >> >> >>If you are unsure about the hardware support for the i5 chipset in >>Squeeze, try first with Debian's LiveCD and see how it goes, what it

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-08 Thread Adrian Levi
On 9 July 2011 16:51, Adrian Levi wrote: > Ok, I've had some time to sit down with this thing and check it out further. > Found this on the screen after stopping boinc-client. I'm going to Before I could use the machine this afternoon I had to restart it, It responded to SysRQ

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-08 Thread Adrian Levi
On 6 July 2011 08:27, William Hopkins wrote: > > I understand your logic but the log says setiathome was the process that > ultimately triggered the crash. Try disabling it and doing the vt1 trick again > (also look into the liveCD log-inspection suggestion, then you can pastebinit > and we can re

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-05 Thread Adrian Levi
On 5 July 2011 21:08, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > Just a thought: have you tried disabling setiathome?  (And also, did > you have the same setiathome version running on the Ubuntu that didn't > freeze?) Seti is a recent addition to that machine. It was locking up before I installed it. Adrian --

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-05 Thread Adrian Levi
On 3 July 2011 17:43, Adrian Levi wrote: > My home server has been experiencing instability issues running Debian stable. Ha, I turned off kdm and left the computer sitting in vt1. I got the following: (Hand typed excuse any typo's) gemini login: [24573.123365] general protection fau

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread Adrian Levi
On 3 July 2011 21:27, lee wrote: > You need to figure out what happens to trigger the freezing.  Are there > any entries in syslog that might indicate something?  There's cron > scripts running over night ... Perhaps the easiest way to approach this > is setting the system clock 12 hours or so ah

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread Adrian Levi
On 3 July 2011 18:56, Nicolas Bercher wrote: Hi Nicolas, > So, before upgrading the kernel to 2.6.38, where you using the standard > stable Debian kernel (2.6.32)?  If not (but seems yes), maybe downgrading > the kernel back to the stable one is a good thing to test. The problem was also in 2.6

Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread Adrian Levi
My home server has been experiencing instability issues running Debian stable. My issue is I have no sound output and overnight the computer will hard lock-up so that the num-lock light won't even toggle. I updated to 2.6.38 thinking it might be a kernel compatibility issue but the problem remains

Re: apt packages available

2011-06-30 Thread Adrian Levi
> On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 15:23:11 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > 'apt-get update' regenerates it. 'dpkg --clear-avail' would have cleared > it. I'm pretty sure I tried removing the file and did an update, That was the first thing I thought of but for whatever reason

apt packages available

2011-06-28 Thread Adrian Levi
/etc/cron.weekly/man-db: warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 7270 package 'virtualbox': error in Version string '1.6.6-35336_Debian_lenny': invalid character in revision number I have tried removing the available file in the hope that it would be regenerated. Virtualbox was added

Re: M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 Realtek ALC892 - No sound(mostly)

2011-05-15 Thread Adrian Levi
> Are you sure the output jack is in the right socket? These multi-input/ > ouput audio cards are going to get us crazy :-) I know, most of us only have 2 ears... (Yes it's in the right socket although i try the other non mic ones as well). > I would start for the easiest thing, that is, edit "/e

M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 Realtek ALC892 - No sound(mostly)

2011-05-15 Thread Adrian Levi
This motherboard used to work under a previous install of Debian, I Updated to Squeeze through a fresh install (hard drive replacement). Ever since I have been unable to get the sound to work. With the speakers plugged in to the speaker port I get random pops coming from the speakers, Clicking on

Re: SSH Issue

2011-03-12 Thread Adrian Levi
On 13 March 2011 08:37, Michael Thompson wrote: > I've got a slight issue with logging into my server using public keys. > > It was working fine, until I had to rebuild my desktop machine. I had > the key copied to the server, and passwordless logins where fine. > > However now I have rebuilt my d

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-20 Thread Adrian Levi
On 21 February 2011 06:02, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > Greetings: > 300 Mhz processor > boot manager on 3.5-inch diskette so it can boot from diskette, CD or hard > drive > ethernet jack on motherboard > 5 pci slots > 4 isa slots > (I have a pci nic and 2 isa nics on hand, plus there's that built-in

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

2011-02-15 Thread Adrian Levi
On 16 February 2011 02:47, Jochen Schulz wrote: > I would be surprised to find something like this. The fork has purely > political reasons and as it is still quite young, it shouldn't have > deviated from OOo by much until now. LibreOffice includes the patchset that was GO-OO that neither Sun o

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

2011-02-15 Thread Adrian Levi
On 16 February 2011 00:22, Erwan David wrote: > And now are fears for Qt... Qt has nothing to do with Oracle. Qt is Nokia previously Trolltech. Qt is LGPL and proprietory for commercial use. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it res

Re: rtorrent queue

2011-02-12 Thread Adrian Levi
I use one called rtorrentquemanager.py I am running it by 'nohup ./rtorrentquemanager.py &' works pretty well for me. Adrian On 12 February 2011 22:20, Nikolas Slivka wrote: > Hello! > > rTorrent was possible (possibly with external script) configure uTorrent-like > queue? As an example: 10 pie

Re: single machine, different IP addresses

2011-02-08 Thread Adrian Levi
On 8 February 2011 15:53, T o n g wrote: > >From http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/thttpd_man.html > But this really looks Greek to me. I have to ask, why you can't or don't want to use Apache web server? It supports Virtual Hosts pretty much out of the box on Debian with a minimum of configu

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-05 Thread Adrian Levi
On 6 February 2011 08:02, Lubos Rendek wrote: > Hi Adrian, > Do I have another choice. I mean if lines belong to telstra it sounds > logical that anywhere I got I might have the same problem?!? > > Download test from TPG: > > 2011-02-06 08:36:43 (149 KB/s) - `test3.iso' saved [52328448/52328448]

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Adrian Levi
On 4 February 2011 22:42, Lubos Rendek wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > I'm on ADSL2. I had constant speed for years and it was always around > 6 - 8 Mbps. Suddenly it dropped to 0.3 - 4 Mbps but on average I have > 0.9. As you also mentioned I too believe that the weather is to be > blamed. > > My Telstra

Re: OpenSSH key based authorisation problem

2011-01-18 Thread Adrian Levi
On 19 January 2011 07:35, Rob Owens wrote: > I was going to tell you that .ssh should not be world readable, but I > just tested it and it works fine like that.  (I guess that changed > sometime since I first set up ssh on my machine). > > Can you post the authorized_keys file?  Remember that thos

Re: OpenSSH key based authorisation problem

2011-01-18 Thread Adrian Levi
On 19 January 2011 05:06, Rob Owens wrote: > That is the default location for authorized_keys, but it can be changed > in sshd_config with the AuthorizedKeysFile parameter.  Better check and > make sure somebody didn't alter it from the default. 'Somebody' ~me? :) This exact config file works pe

Re: OpenSSH key based authorisation problem

2011-01-18 Thread Adrian Levi
On 19 January 2011 02:37, Rob Owens wrote: > Any time I've ever had trouble with key based authentication, it was > because of improper permissions on my .ssh folder.  It should be set: > > chmod 700 ~/.ssh > > I'd double-check that before going any further. I checked that but didn't spot anythin

OpenSSH key based authorisation problem

2011-01-18 Thread Adrian Levi
It seems that users other than me are not able to login to the server. I use key nased authentication via putty and from other debian boxes fine but other users from putty (haven't tried other users from linux) fail with "No more authentication methods available". adrian@jupiter:~$ ssh -v localhos

Re: OT: Output from date command - my little backup script

2011-01-16 Thread Adrian Levi
On 16 January 2011 17:34, Bob Proulx wrote: > Adrian Levi wrote: >>     if [ $backuplevel -eq 0] > > You are missing a space after the 0 and before the ] and I am hoping > that is simply an email glitch.  But you must have a space there. > >    if [ $backuplevel -eq 0 ]

OT: Output from date command - my little backup script

2011-01-15 Thread Adrian Levi
Is the output from the date command a string or integer wrt date +%w? I'm trying to test a condition in my backup script where i want to match on day of week = 0 The program flow I am trying to achieve is" If the file exists and the day of the week is 0 then remove the file and set the day of the

Re: Help with a bash script please

2011-01-14 Thread Adrian Levi
On 14 January 2011 22:44, Mart Frauenlob wrote: ! > see also: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_command_shells Thanks for the homework ;-) It works now BTW... Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machine.. l

Re: Help with a bash script please

2011-01-14 Thread Adrian Levi
On 14 January 2011 21:51, Mart Frauenlob wrote: > in debian lenny (and previous releases) the default shell aka sh is bash. > the file /bin/sh is a symbolic link to /bin/bash. > however in squeeze afaik the default shell is dash. > so your script starting with the shebang #!/bin/sh will not be ru

OT: Re: Help with a bash script please

2011-01-14 Thread Adrian Levi
I know where the error lies but not how to fix it. zparameters="a -mhe=on -pd1ckhead -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on -si" zfilename="Daily Backup - $(date +"%a %h %H%M %d-%m-%Y").$backuplevel.tar.7z" When these two expand here: tar $tarparameters $backuppath | 7z $zparameters $zfilena

Re: Help with a bash script please

2011-01-14 Thread Adrian Levi
On 14 January 2011 20:32, Jochen Schulz wrote: > I don't want to keep you from learning shell scripting, but I generally > advise against scripting your own backup solution. From my experience > the result is error prone, tends to attract feature creep and is hard to > deploy to new environments.

OT: Re: Help with a bash script please

2011-01-14 Thread Adrian Levi
I have (hopefully) taken on everybody's suggestions, Here is the current script :) #!/bin/sh # Variables: # Determine backup level incrementalfile="/srv/tar_incremental_file" if [ -f $incrementalfile ] then backuplevel="date +%w" else backuplevel="0" rm $incrementalfile > /dev/null 2>&1 fi zpa

Re: Help with a bash script please

2011-01-14 Thread Adrian Levi
On 14 January 2011 19:46, Javier Barroso wrote: > variable names can't start with a number, I guess this is the fail. That was one, In all the material I read i didn't pick that one up. -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping,

Help with a bash script please

2011-01-14 Thread Adrian Levi
I have the following bash script and it fails at line 14 and 15 (7zparameters= and 7zfilename=) I have tried everything i can think of to get it to work, the answer has to be simple but i can't figure it. This is going to be my new backup script, based on an earlier version that is very similar in

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-13 Thread Adrian Levi
On 10 January 2011 05:21, Hal Vaughan wrote: >Is there a way to copy an image of just the files from one drive to another?   >For example, an intelligent DD that won't copy unused sectors, or will create >an archive of just the files? Is there a reason why dump and restore won't fill the bill?

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-23 Thread Adrian Levi
On 23 December 2010 21:20, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I think you will find that the kernel will advance as I understand it, > the 2.6 is the current "normal" branch and 2.7 is development, once 2.7 > makes it to 2.8, then 2.9 will be dev . 3.0 / 3.1 and so on. > > It's just that we have l

Re: this table in html how

2010-03-07 Thread Adrian Levi
On 7 March 2010 21:19, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Oup: > More like that: 50% 50% 33% 33% 33% I get to correct you back :-) If your going to specify cols then the percentages need to match ;-) Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost

Re: this table in html how

2010-03-07 Thread Adrian Levi
On 7 March 2010 20:51, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/7735/tablehow.png > > i just can't write this table in html code.. :\ > > how can i make it? Have no idea about standards compliance but it should render properly. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-14 Thread Adrian Levi
On 14 February 2010 14:27, Timothy Legg wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Chris Jones wrote: >>>...and might be able to >>> comment on the respective merits of air compressors vs. air cans..? >>> >>> CJ > Please don't use the readily available R-134a bottles.  I am not yet > convinced

Samba 3.4.3 PDC + Win7Pro can't connect to domain

2010-01-09 Thread Adrian Levi
I have spent many late nights looking into this problem but have gone nowhere, I would really appreciate someone to shine some light on this problem for me. I have 2 workstations ascoffice1 which is a WinVistaBusiness client - works perfectly although doing anything that requires privledge escallat

Re: NTP setting

2009-12-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/12/16 J.H.Kim : > Hi, everyone > > I have a 2 PCs in my office and they are not connected to internet. > But I wish to synchronize the 2PC. > One is for time server and one is for time client. > Is it possible to use NTP for the purpose? > How I can config NTP server with local time? IIUC if

Re: Clone a bootable USB key

2009-09-26 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/9/27 Dieder Vervoort : > What I am trying to do: I would like to make a copy of my USB-key to one or > more  files, > send the files to a friend and he has to dd / copy this file to his USB-Key, > and I was hoping this should work. Then what you have done previously will work on the proviso

Re: Clone a bootable USB key

2009-09-25 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/9/26 Dieder Vervoort : > Hi All, > > I am trying to clone a bootable USB key B ( FAT32) > > I format USB key C and  set the boot flag. > Copied all files from USB-B to USB-C in Windows. > Copied the MBR:  dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=446  count =1 > > When I boot from USB-B I get only the wor

Re: configuring xserver

2009-09-24 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/9/24 Paul E Condon : > I just purchased a small LCD monitor. It is 16:9 format and 1366x768. > I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > and that program set up the driver for 1024x768, so naturely the letters > and graphics were stretched out horizontally. 1366x768 is not an option > offered by G

Re: Firefox 3.5 wine

2009-09-05 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/9/6 Eugene Apolinary : > fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub! > fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x32fcd4 I have no answers to your direct problems but it seems to me that Firefox is trying to use functions in libraries that haven't been implemented yet in wine. You might like to look

Re: Installation: How do I bypass partitioning?

2009-08-30 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/8/30 Jason Hsu : > I have a laptop with Windows XP already installed one one partition and Puppy > Linux already installed on another partition. > > I have additional partitions.  How do I install Debian on another partition?   > The installer insists that I write the partitions before I inst

(picture) image manipulation program

2009-08-09 Thread Adrian Levi
I'd like to hear some responses for what people use as a quick and dirty image manipulation program. Main features I'm looking for are:- re-size(smaller), rotate, convert to ... I realise there is the gimp but it's probably overkill for what I want and it's features are more along the lines of pho

Re: sha1summ of complete directory?

2009-07-06 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/7/7 Mark Neidorff : > On Monday 06 July 2009 08:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: >> How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a >> complete directory tree? This is what I was thinking, If you don't want to retain the tar file then pipe it to sha1sum. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52

OT: Need pointers for openvpn bridge setup.

2009-07-04 Thread Adrian Levi
Over the last couple of weeks I have been trying to get openvpn working. My current system is as follows: Cable modem | eth0 (Public IP) Debian etch nat firewall (Squid, apache, dhcpd, Bind, Samba, apt-proxy, ftpd, sshd) eth1 (192.168.0.1) caprica.lefty. | switch -wireless router (ap) -printer -

Re: Services / Runlevel editor

2009-06-27 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/6/27 Allen Kenner : > > > John Hasler wrote: >> Allen writes: >>> I just can't seem to find much to let me work on services that doesn't >>> involve the process of shutting them all off by hand. >> >>> So is there an application you guys use for Debian to turn processes off >>> and on? >> >> C

Re: Salvage a dead IO USB device

2009-06-26 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/6/26 Bhasker C V : > Hi, > >  I think this question has been asked many times but could not google out > easily on the threads. > >  Suppose I have a dead/rejected SCSI USB device how do I reset it so that > I can use the device name again. > >  I use crypto LVM and usually have /dev/mapper/XX

Re: DNS lookup problems after upgrade from Etch to Lenny

2009-06-15 Thread Adrian Levi
>> didn't have it before and on another system running a fresh build of >> Lenny running the exact same software handling a similar load and its >> DNS ask rate is just as low as it was on this system running Etch. >> >> I am at a loss. I appreciate any help people can give. Silly question, did yo

Re: [testing] bluez4 keypad

2009-06-15 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/6/16 Alexandre : > > hi, > I want to connect my new keyboard which uses bluetooth: > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FrogPad > > pb: "hcitool scanning" does not see any keyboard devices (which is not > connected yet, obviously). But it works well for others devices. > > I suppose I have no blu

Re: Setting the internal clock

2009-06-01 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/6/1 K. Jantzen : > Where can I set the internal clock? hwclock --systohc If the hardware clock is drifting it might be better to install openntpd It will gradually pull your system clock into calibration and keep it there. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-28 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/5/28 Frank Miles : > Regrettably, the problem persists - though possibly with a different > threshold of sorts, as pinging now seems to work.  However- >        apt-get update > still hangs.  I have to kill BOTH the firewall and eth1 in order to > make this work (not seeming to wait indefinite

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-27 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/5/27 Frank Miles : > Sure, can provide more info... > > /etc/network/interfaces : > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > auto eth0 > #iface eth0 inet dhcp > iface eth0 inet static >        address xxx.yyy.zzz.32 >        network xxx.yyy.zzz.0 >

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

2009-05-03 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/5/4 Mark Allums : > Raquel wrote: >> I don't think that aptitude will run as $user, Douglas.  It always >> runs as root.  At least, that's what it's always told me when I've >> mistakenly tried to run it as $user. > > It runs as user (in GUI mode), but it won't attempt to make changes to the >

Re: virtualbox-2.2 uninstallable on lenny/amd64?

2009-05-02 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/5/3 Peter Beck : > On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 09:07 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: >> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 03:58:19PM +0200, Peter Beck wrote: >> > I'm also having this issues with my testing (x86) installation as well. >> > On a german debianforum they said that a few days a go they gave >> > this st

virtualbox-2.2 uninstallable on lenny/amd64?

2009-05-02 Thread Adrian Levi
When trying to install the latest virtualbox-2.2 from the virtualbox repo I get the following error: Cloud9:~# aptitude install virtualbox-2.2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states...

Re: Performance problem with some php scripts or..?

2009-04-30 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/30 Juraj Remenec : > Hello. > I have a serious problem and i'm not able to identify the error. Can you provide the output of top and iotop while the system is transferring? Is the old system available to you for testing purposes? Adrian P.S. we got all your emails. Gmail has a *feature*? t

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/26 Justin : >>  We had a boarder who used fake-raid in the fashion you mention and >> was bitten badly by a raid chip failure. No spare motherboard, no >> backups, everything gone. >> >> Adrian > > Of course, I'm well aware of the drawbacks to fakeraid and they've been > covered here pretty

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/26 Justin : >> > >  Is >> > > there any advantage compared with software raid? >> > > >> > >> > I only see disadvantages. >> >> Thanks, I appreciate your advice. > > > Here's the advantage to fakeraid to me. Keep in mind it won't apply to most > people. > > I have 4 hard disk, 2x320 in raid0

Re: process in background

2009-04-23 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/23 Matyas Sustik : > Dear Forum, > > I am running a video encoding process for which I would like to use all the > CPU resources which would otherwise be idle.  I do not want this job to get > in the way of any other processes (interactive or something like mythbackend). > > I tried using ni

Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

2009-04-20 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/21 T o n g : > Hi, > > Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux? > > Most people would recommend Partimage, but I think it is practically > useless since the source/dest partition size has to be exactly the same. > http://www.partimage.org/Partimage- > FAQ#Can_I_res

Re: Dell Poweredge 2300/500 i2o:iop0: Unable to start controller

2009-04-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/18 Adrian Levi : > i2o:iop0: Unable to start controller. Found out that i2o and linux kernel don't play nice. I disabled i2o in the Perc's bios by typing ^M and selecting adaptor and switching from i2o to mass storage. All working now. Still don't understand wh

Dell Poweredge 2300/500 i2o:iop0: Unable to start controller

2009-04-17 Thread Adrian Levi
Unit has 1G ram 6x 18G drives configured as following: 2 as raid 1 partitioned 500M /boot 10G / 5G /usr and remainder as swap ~1G 4 drives in raid 5 as a /svr Discs are connected to the Perc2/SC controller, primary on board controller is set to disabled, secondary on board controller has CD-ROM d

Re: Stable kernel security support

2009-04-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/17 Paul van der Vlis : > > Thanks for your answers. > > When I understand right I really need a package like linux-image-2.6-686 > to get kernel security support. No, linux-image-2.6-686 is a meta package that serves to install the latest 2.6 version of the linux kernel for the 686 architec

Re: what does "kept back" mean when do "apt-get upgrade"?

2009-04-14 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/14 明覺 : > I often see that some packages are "kept back" when I do "apt-get > upgrade", what does it mean? what actions are done to those kept back > packages? thanks apt-get upgrade by default will not install new packages or remove installed packages. man apt-get read the upgrade section.

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

2009-04-13 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/13 Bob Cox : > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:18:51 +1000, Adrian Levi (adrian.l...@gmail.com) > wrote: > Indeed.  Note the '--enable-libmp3lame' below: Seems as if the OP's ffmpeg was not compiled with that option set. OP's reply to you below. 2009/4/13 Long

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

2009-04-12 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/13 Long Wind : > Thank Bob, but your command does not work. > > Below is output of your command: > Output #0, mp2, to 'real128.mp3': >  Stream #0.0: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128000 kb/s > Stream mapping: >  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 > [mp2 @ 0xb7ec5f08]bitrate 128000 is not allowed in mp2 >

Re: I can not run KDE - it simply hangs on booting when splash screen shows blinking HDD.

2009-04-12 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/13 Sthu Deus : > Good day. > > I can not run KDE - it simply hangs on booting when splash screen shows > blinking HDD. > > I use therefore WM for now, but when I run KDE apps. I see long hanging > before I actually see the apps. itself: kate (this one complains on > mime/types), korhanizer,

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

2009-04-11 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/11 Klistvud : > Starting the new 5.00 Lenny DVD and selecting (any type of) install, some 5 to > 10 minutes into the installation process, my laptop overheats and shuts down. > It's a HP Compaq 6715b with an AMD Turion 64 and an ATI Radeon 1200. Needless > to say, I have the BIOS option "Fan

Re: OT: ERP/CRM for small refrigeration service shop.

2009-04-07 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/7 John W Foster : > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 20:10 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: >> I am looking for a open source software solution for a service trade >> business. I have found OpenbravoERP and Postbooks. > SQL-Ledger does all this. Thanks John. -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 S

OT: ERP/CRM for small refrigeration service shop.

2009-04-06 Thread Adrian Levi
I am looking for a open source software solution for a service trade business. I have found OpenbravoERP and Postbooks. Both of these solutions look like way too much overkill for a 2 -10 van company. I'm looking for something that does multiple location inventories, invoicing customer and supplie

Re: install daemon without starting it

2009-04-02 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/2 Nuno Magalhães : >>> is it possible to install a daemon from a Debian package without having >>> it automatically started afterwards? > > At the risk of starting a holy war, and kind of highjaking, shouldn't > Debian *not* start just-installed daemons by default? Or at least ask > while in

Re: Print Server

2009-03-31 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/1 Gerald C.C : > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 18:15 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: >> What do you have installed to serve printers to clients? Samba. >> >> Adrian >> > Yes, according to the samba setup (smb.conf) the printers are > shared.(actually at this time only 1)

Re: Print Server

2009-03-31 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/31 Gerald C.C : > Hi Guy's, > I have arrived at this point more or less by accident. I am not really > sure this is where i ask for help!!! > I have 'Lenny' installed and I would like to use it as a server. That > said i am sharing files OK> but although my other boxes see the printers > I c

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-22 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/23 Christofer C. Bell : > This isn't true.  Come enter the 21st Century, it started nearly a decade > ago. ;-)  Top posting works well in a modern threaded mail reader (all of > which, incidentally, support HTML email).  Because *you* are a curmudgeon > doesn't mean everyone else has to be.

Re: Stock kernel - it works everywhere because?

2009-03-20 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/20 Matthew Smith : > Hi Folks > > Nearing the end of my journey now (Gentoo to Debian migration.)  Setting up > VMware Workstation from the official distribution (this is the commercial > one that I use) requires me to re-build the kernel so that it and the VMware > modules are compiled with

Re: pppd curiosity

2009-03-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/16 Umarzuki Mochlis : > Frankly, I don't really know how to answer that other than giving you the > full dialing message What was the command you typed to get that message? PS I am subscrubed, you don't need to email me, just the list is fine. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad

Re: pppd curiosity

2009-03-15 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/15 Umarzuki Mochlis : > --> Sending: > ATZ > ATZ > OK > --> Sending: > AT+CGDCONT? > AT+CGDCONT? > +CGDCONT: > 1,"IP","my3g","0.0.0.0",0,0 > OK > --> Modem > initialized. > --> Sending: > ATDT*99# > --> Waiting for > carrier. > ATDT*99# > CONNECT > --> Carrier detected.  Starting PPP > immed

Re: SMART -d ata or -d sat

2009-03-12 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/13 Norbert Zeh : > Hi Debianites, > > I have just installed smartmontools on my Lenny box and am using smartd > to monitor two SATA IDE drives.  I've read on the web that the right > option to use for such a drive is "-d ata" to force smartd to treat it > as an ATA drive.  On the other hand,

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-12 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/12 Bob Cox : > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 22:14:59 -0700, Mike McClain (mike.j...@nethere.com) > wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:38:35PM +0100, Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote: >> > Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote: >> > >Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and

Re: smart

2009-03-08 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/8 randall : > hi all, G'Day. > smartctl --all /dev/sde > gives me the following, i've been trying to google this but some sources say > replace the disk at once or don't wory, its harmless. Anybody can shed some > light? >  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  A

Re: Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-07 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/8 Florian Weimer : > * Pet: > >> /etc/apt/sources.list > > This looks fine.  How did you figure out that you had installed PHP > 5.1.6? He doesn't have it installed, he wants it installed. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it

Re: Java in Debian 5

2009-02-23 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/24 Bret Busby : > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Paul Johnson wrote: > I thought that using package management to do system updates, like apt-get > update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade, removed packages that became > obsolete, and thence associated files, other than data files created by the > pac

Re: which machine will be affected if virus attacks?

2009-02-23 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/23 ██╔►Engr LEO◄╗██ : > Hi all, > > I am running Windows Xp on two systems.. system#1 is connected > directly to inetrenet.. system#2 uses the shared connection from the > I have no firewall, no antivirus, nothing on system#1.. system#2 has updated > antiviruses.. are my virtual m

Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

2009-02-23 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/23 Dennis Busboom : > I think I've discovered what's causing the hang, but haven't had time to > dig into it. It seems that the video card (huh?!) is the problem. > > lspci -v shows this with the 2.6.28 kernel booted up > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV4 [RIV

Re: Newly obsolete package?

2009-02-21 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/22 Umarzuki Mochlis : > There are 35 newly obsolete packages: bomber, gtk-qt-engine-kde4, kapman, > kdeedu-kvtml-data, kdepim-groupware, killbots, kmymoney2-common, > kpartloader, The 4 packages I checked from that list are in experimental only, My guess is that if you add an apt pinning

Re: Java in Debian 5

2009-02-21 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/22 Celejar : > I was actually surprised by the fact that I apparently had a bunch of > java stuff marked as manually installed. I run aptitude without > automatic installation of recommends, and I have no idea when I would > have marked stuff like 'libxom-java' or 'bsh' (BeanShell) as manu

Re: Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

2009-02-21 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/22 Dennis Busboom : >> Could you try running memtest86+ on it and see if its a memory issue. > > I fired up memtest before leaving last night. It ran 10 hours, 12 passes > with no errors. Only thing I can think of now is to grab some source and > and roll my own where I can cherry-pick and

Re: Java in Debian 5

2009-02-21 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/22 Bret Busby : > On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Adrian Levi wrote: > >> >> 2009/2/21 Bret Busby : >>> >>> On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>>> >>>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:31:27AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: >>>>

Re: Java in Debian 5

2009-02-20 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/21 Bret Busby : > On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:31:27AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: >> If you install the desktop task you also get OpenOffice.org that depends >> on a Java JRE. > So, to use Open Office, Java is needed? > > I understood that Open O

Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

2009-02-20 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/21 Dennis Busboom : > I tried linux-image-2.6-686 and linux-image-686 (for PentiumX machines). > Both behave the same way. I see the kernel and initrd load, then nothing. > The old 2.6.18 still boots right up. I also tried going into the grub > command-mode and doing a 'testload' on the ke

Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

2009-02-20 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/21 Dennis Busboom : > I just upgraded an older machine, PII 400mhz, 256mb RAM, from Etch to > Lenny. The upgrade went smoothly, but the new Lenny kernel hangs upon > booting. The old Etch kernel (2.6.18) is still present and boots up fine > into the Lenny upgrade. When booting from the 2.

Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

2009-02-20 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/21 Dennis Busboom : > I just upgraded an older machine, PII 400mhz, 256mb RAM, from Etch to > Lenny. The upgrade went smoothly, but the new Lenny kernel hangs upon > booting. The old Etch kernel (2.6.18) is still present and boots up fine > into the Lenny upgrade. When booting from the 2.

Re: Upgrade procedure: etch -> lenny

2009-02-19 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/19 Chris Jones : > I plan to upgrade to lenny over the weekend: > > 1. duplicate current etch system on a new partition > 2. apt-get update > 2. replace "etch" by "lenny" in /etc/sources.list > 3. apt-get dist-upgrade > > Am I missing anything? > > Note: I do not want apt to mess with my lin

Re: Repeated Raid1 Failures after upgrade to Lenny

2009-02-19 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/19 Ryan Wetterich : > So I upgraded to Lenny over the weekend, and now I'm having issues with my > RAID1 were there weren't any before. Every few hours one of the devices > making up any /dev/md will fail. It's usually on /dev/sdb but it's happening > on /dev/sda as well. I can set the devic

Re: [OT]: Label printer Dont worry

2009-02-19 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/19 Thierry Chatelet : > On 18 February 2009 06:32:11 Thierry Chatelet wrote: >> Hi, >> I need a label printer. I was looking at this one: >> BROTHER Label Printer N&B P-Touch QL-500A >> Has anyone used it ? >> Or can you give me information on a label printer that you use under >> debian? Th

Re: label swap partition

2009-02-19 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/19 Marc Auslander : > Adrian Levi writes: > It follows. /dev/hda1 looks funny, doesn't it? Like no UUID. How do > I fix? > > > fdisk -l /dev/hda > > Disk /dev/hda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders > Units =

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