Re: Etch + USB Modem -- Supported?

2007-09-24 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/24/07, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/24/07 14:27, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > [snip] > > not have Linux drivers at all. Generally hardware-based modems are > > sever

Re: Etch + USB Modem -- Supported?

2007-09-24 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/24/07, Ted Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > > i need to get another (dial-up) modem for my linux > box. does the most up to date version of Etch support > USB modems 'out of the box?' (ie- without a lot of > heavy configuring, like kernel recompiling.) > > and if so, which USB modems

Re: unstable: problems installing GNOME

2007-09-24 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/24/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 07:41:19PM +0100, michael wrote: > > ... > > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies. > > libwnck18: Depends: libwnck-common (< 2.19) but 2.20.0-1 is to be > > installed > > E: Broken packages > >

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-21 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/21/07, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/21/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why is selinux in Debian at all? > > > > Have any users asked for it? > > I don't know, but if it wasn't in Debian, I would ask for it. > > I don't get why people seem to think SELinux is a b

Re: Compiz and window decorations

2007-09-20 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/20/07, Francisco M Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I've just finished installing Debian etch, and until I installed > compiz the only problem I had was the crappy font rendering in > Iceweasel (which was already solved by disabling its using pango). You should disable use

Re: Gnome Update Manager's "Smart" Update

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/15/07, Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew J. Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is that really such a smart idea? Why is the update manager suggesting > > > that's a smart idea? It will cripple my ability to work! Is it really tha

Re: Gnome Update Manager's "Smart" Update

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/15/07, Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The "Smart" update button in the update manager often comes back to me > with a solution that involes removing software that I use every day, in fact > software that I usually have open when the update manager is open (such as > pidgin and

Re: Linux Printer Sharing

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/15/07, ArcticFox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I've done that but my mac can't seem to find the printer. I've got > a message asking me for the 'Device URI' and I have no idea what it's > looking for. In recent releases of CUPS, you can navigate to localhost:631 using the web browser on th

Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

2007-09-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/4/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Proper usage of grammar in your native language is a sign of > intelligence. We value intelligence. We also value common courtesy and humility, or at least we should. Don't be a jerk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: can't play Flash anymore

2007-09-03 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/3/07, steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does it work in firefox? > > and have you tried the below or using automatix? Automatix has a bad reputation among distribution developers. I don't know the full story but I suspect it's a lot like the way the Wine developers despised WineTools. Users,

Re: Iceweasel not a fully supported browser for Gmail?

2007-08-21 Thread Andrew J. Barr
it's worth. > Bipin Babu > > > On 8/21/07, Andrew J. Barr < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/21/07, Bipin Babu < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 8/21/07, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: Iceweasel not a fully supported browser for Gmail?

2007-08-21 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/21/07, Bipin Babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 8/21/07, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2007/8/21, Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi, > > > > > > It seems now that gmail does not consider Iceweasel as a fully > > > supported browser? > > > Does someone know s

Re: dumb question about mozilla plugin directory location....

2007-08-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/13/07, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't tried that. I am using amd64 Etch by the way. Ah, important detail. You need to read up on nspluginwrapper, and you'll need to do manual installation because the amd64 flashplugin package appeared post-etch. You may be able to

Re: dumb question about mozilla plugin directory location....

2007-08-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/13/07, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I downloaded flashplayer9. > > I downloaded it to my home directory /home/mikef/ > > I then did tar -zxf on it and it nicely made a little directory with > flashplayer in it in my /home/mikef directory.. Is there

[SOLVED] Re: Firefox and Time Zones

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/8/07, Andrew J. Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am suffering from a frustrating issue with Iceweasel (2.0.0.6, > Debian unstable amd64). > > I have a LiveJournal, and the post form has date and time fields on > it. These are automatically filled in with the current d

Firefox and Time Zones

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
I am suffering from a frustrating issue with Iceweasel (2.0.0.6, Debian unstable amd64). I have a LiveJournal, and the post form has date and time fields on it. These are automatically filled in with the current date and time, using JavaScript. Problem is, Firefox thinks the time is four hours lat

Re: Watching youtube videos on AMD64

2007-08-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/7/07, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having just upgraded my system from i386 to AMD64 I find I am unable to > watch youtube vidoes anymore. I generally use Konqueror, but Ideweasel > doesn't work either. > > I thought all I had to do was install nspluginswrapper (as well as > lib

Re: Public PC

2007-08-05 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/5/07, Dave Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope to make the PC reasonably idiot proof (the box will be kept > separate from the users) - the keyboard and display will be > accessible. The goal is to keep users from inadvertently trashing the > machine, but to provide usability. Sabayon

Re: scanner problem

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/5/07, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Cannon Lide 20 scanner does not work on Etch. It only works if i > start it as root. Is there an easy way to fix this? > Thanks > Jeff You need to add yourself to the 'scanner' group. As root, run: gpasswd -a scanner being your username. -- An

Re: odd xorg-video-intel problem

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/4/07, Takehiko Abe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ package: xserver-xorg-video-intel version 2:2.1.0-2 ] > > Since I updated xserver-xorg-video-intel, my LCD started to complain > that it is in a non-preset mode, that is, the monitor displayed a > message "Nonpreset Mode" for 5 seconds when X s

Re: Seeing files shared from an Apple computer

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/4/07, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I enabled "Personal File Sharing" on an iMac on my LAN, but can't seem > to see the files from KDE. I have a pretty full installation of KDE > (testing), including kdnssd, and I have avahi and friends installed (but > dbus is not enabled). > > av

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/4/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/04/07 12:53, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > >> a) What are the pros and cons in switching to 64 bit mode? > >> - Is it faster? > > > > Yes. Unlike true 64-bit architectures like PowerPC, there is a p

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/4/07, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Core2 Duo on which I am running a 686 kernel (from Debian > unstable). It has 1GB of memory > > I am wondering two things > > a) What are the pros and cons in switching to 64 bit mode? > - Is it faster? Yes. Unlike true 64-bit

Re: converting file system

2007-08-03 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/3/07, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:35:09PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > So I doubt it. How you proceed depends on what mount point we're > > talking about. Hopefully, its not /. Anything else you can 'fix' by > > doing a backup, going

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/31/07, Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, you seem to be really singing the praises of chroot. > > I have a spare 10gig partition on my hard drive. I originally considered > simply dual-booting Etch and Lenny, or Etch and Feisty, or something similar. > Perhaps instead I will mak

Re: IM on a home debian network

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/28/07, Jesus Arocho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a home network with 5 boxes, one of which is a server. I run a > combination of Ubuntu and Debian desktops and Debian on the server. Is there > a program available that will provide instant messaging within the network? Pidgin as well

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/31/07, Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My understanding of chroot is extremely limited, right now. I have searched > around, but can anyone point me to anything specific that they know to be a > good tutorial/explanation or how chroot works and what its capabilities are? chroot is

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew J. Barr
> hmmm... very interesting but it makes my toes curl to think of > installing IE... What I really need to do it duplicate my windows qemu > image and upgrade IE in one of the two images. That makes me happier, > having that segregation... No need for VM image duplication. That wastes disk space, a

Re: Apt-get errors with dynamic NMAP out space

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/30/07, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apt-get errors out as show below when trying the read the package lists. > How do I get out of it. > > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occurred while processing libsdl1.2debian-all (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with > MergeList > /var/

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/30/07, Stef Daniels VK5HSX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, >I am aware that Iceweasel uses the same engine as Firefox for > the operation, however, there seems to be problems with using Iceweasel > on sites like Ebay. When you are creating an item to sell and you get to > t

Using HAL from Python?

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew J. Barr
I am writing a small GTK+ StatusIcon application that manages internal touchpads and external mice on laptops. I would like to interface with HAL to detect when a USB mouse in plugged in--is anyone aware of Python HAL bindings or are we just supposed to use python-dbus to talk to HAL? -- Andrew B

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-07-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/29/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm on slow dialup. Downloads of iso's take days. Yet, I still want to > be able to browse the internet. > > I would like to set up something like trickle that will run something > but limit its bandwidth so that it lower's its priority.

Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat....

2007-07-28 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/28/07, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 07/28/07 13:46, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > > > I was wrong. As Jesus said in the Bible "O, ye of little faith". I > > > > Yeshua didn't speak English. But that's a way different topic. > > You sp

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/26/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Douglas. Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 18:23: > It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues > requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror > or links2. Aside from the fact that one softwa

Re: Problems with Krusader - crashes

2007-07-23 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/23/07, Jostein Elvaker Haande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ krusader krusader: ldap-nss.c:1374: do_init: Assertion `cfg->ldc_uris[__session.ls_current_uri] != ((void *)0)' failed. KCrash: Application 'krusader' crashing... I can't find any apparent reason for «Krusader» to

Re: [OT] Samsung-provided linux drivers could be dangerous

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/17/07, Anson Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Samsung_Linux_printer_driver_modifies_the_permissions_of_many_executables I was going to recommend a Samsung Laser printer (like my ML-2250) on the "Economic Printer" thread, but now maybe not. I remember seein

Re: [OT] google desktop on Debian

2007-07-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
on. I > wonder how much space it takes for indexing Sorry if I'm ignorant but, How is this better/different than Beagle or any of the other open-source data indexing projects out there? > raju > -- Andrew J. Barr We matter more than pounds and pence Your economic theory ma

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-07-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 00:59 -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > I noticed that on her machine, QEMU does not eat lots of CPU, while > > on my machine, it eats the machine. I've copied the exact raw image > > disc from her machine to mine, but QEM

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
ranslation engine out of the picture and allows for near-native performance of x86-on-x86 (32 or 64 bit) situations. It turns kqemu into less of an emulator and more of a virtualizer, if that makes any sense to you. -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't k

Re: Sound card not working

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
"Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:29:39PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

Re: Sound card not working

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:29:39PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have to say that since alsa started shipping with dmix by > > > defau

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
; You need to learn some history. MicroSoft predates 1987 by quite > a bit. Um, if memory serves me, IBM created SQL in the '60s. > Mike -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound card not working

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
to play a video on your laptop and get sound output through a stereo hooked up to your desktop box. :) Best yet it has support for emulating ESD, right down to it's API and wire protocol. > A -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps, if you enabled non-free software on her computer, kqemu is > installed? it is a processor accelerator for qemu, but it is not > DFSG-compliant, so it is in the non-free repo. kqemu is free software as of a few months ago. --

Re: MP3 to AMR

2007-06-22 Thread Andrew J. Barr
) and a sample rate of 8000 Hz (-ar 8000), and one of a certain list of bitrates (-ab 7400 (omit that parameter and read the error message to get the list)). If you need to tune additional parameters, read the documentation: $ man ffmpeg HTH, Andrew > Special thanks! :-D > > G. > >

Re: MP3 to AMR

2007-06-22 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Kum Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All! > > I tried to find the way how to convert MP3 (or WAV) files to AMR (for > mobile phone), but I can't. > Can somebody help me? (I use Etch) Do you have the debian-multimedia.org repository installed? > Regards, &g

Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you mean resize2fs? I could not find e2resize anywhere. Yes, sorry. -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: how to find the specs of a monitor

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew J. Barr
dingly, and failing that there are command line tools for this. Google should help you, now that you have an acronym to search on. :P > If it matters, the laptop as such runs Etch (stable). > > Any ideas? > > thanks > raju -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again t

Re: Knetfiter crash, knetfilter se rompe

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew J. Barr
of the relevant *-dbg packages, for example, kdelibs-dbg or kdebase-dbg. You will get a more useful backtrace that way. Kudos for including the backtrace in the first place, though, that is just what you need to get help in the event of a program crash. -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am...

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew J. Barr
ome kind of memory boundary issue with >1GB of RAM. Another thing to try is using a -highmem kernel. Hope this helps. [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/294020 [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.21.5 -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again th

Thinkpad 755CX

2007-06-17 Thread Andrew J. Barr
hobby, and I already spend enough money on my other machines as it is. So in other words, I'd like to work with what I have, if at all possible. * I have a "LapLink" parallel cable suitable for PLIP...I _think_...if I didn't give it away...I'd rather not go rooting in the att

Re: [OT] change user when executing some script

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
ian on an OpenSolaris kernel, this is most certainly the wrong list for you to get help from. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) i

Re: Grateful for the floppy install!

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
10-year-old Thinkpad 755X which has no USB and no Ethernet. Floppy or PCMCIA/CF card are the only boot options for this machine. This thing has like the first edition of Windows 95 on it. O_o - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: Ame

Re: trouble playing WMA

2007-06-12 Thread Andrew J. Barr
line: > > > > > >deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main > > > > Ok. > > the package is w32codecs You should be able to play most WMAs with open source codecs... > A - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-pc-li

Re: problems with totem

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
quot;xshm". VLC should have GUI for this, in Totem you can change the output in ~/.gnome2/totem_config for the xine-lib version, or using the GNOME control center application for the Gstreamer version. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Rona

Re: problems with totem

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
o stdout to know if ffmpeg is missing codecs that the OP needs. I am not convinced that the problem is not with Xvideo--perhaps the OP should try editing totem_config to use standard X11 output (e.g. no hardware acceleration) or use 'mplayer -vo x11 ' to test. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Ma

Re: sound cards, real time kernels and 64studio.......

2007-06-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
r custom kernel using the respective *-source packages and module-assistant. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGaaKUhuM+Z

Re: GLX with ATI X1550 under Ubuntu Fiesty 64bit

2007-06-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
prietary graphics drivers here. -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) "The plural of anecdote is not evidence." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape Navigator 9.01b

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Manon. Why are they still doing that in the age of Firefox? - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) "The plural of anecdote is not evidence." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGZvx1huM+Z

Re: I want to install lenny from scratch

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:10:15 +0530 arijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am sorry for the email-problem. I just hit 'reply' in evolution and > sent it. Now I've become more cautious. Use 'Reply to all'. - --

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
for new device'. > If the drive is formatted and does has a partition it will be > mounted, or you can go to disk management and have it mount manually. > But i can't see ide drive detected while on linux, even there is no > log on syslog. Please use reply to all when replying t

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
month trying to figure out why this $4,000 top-of-the-line laptop was so freaking SLOW. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) "The plural of anecdote is not evidence." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/L

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:51:42 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/04/07 11:24, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > Any drive, any laptop. I think ACPI supports IDE hotswap. > > Interesting. I don't plan on get

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
drive, no? Some laptops have an additional media bay that has IDE connections. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) "The plural of anecdote is not evidence." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
n the case of Thinkpads there was a kernel module called lt_hotswap, although I think that's now superseded by thinkpad_acpi and/or generic ACPI bay support. > > How to do with debian ? Any idea ? > > With USB or Firewire enclosures. Piece of cake. > - -- Andrew J. Barr X-

Re: Macromedia Flash Video

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
er to play > locally Macromedia video. Do you want to play .swf files or .flv files using the Macromedia plugin? A standalone Linux player exists, it's on Adobe Labs' site somewhere. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) "The p

Re: Macromedia Flash Video

2007-06-03 Thread Andrew J. Barr
lick and select "Copy Link Location" to paste into a terminal). HTH, Andrew [0] http://packages.debian.org/youtube-dl > Thank you in advance, > Gustavo > > - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) "The pl

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-02 Thread Andrew J. Barr
uo EM64T box and NetBSD the 10-year-old Thinkpad 755. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) "The plural of anecdote is not evidence." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/L

Re: Linksys wireless nic

2007-06-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
ourceforge.net/ > Thanks, > Randy > > - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) "The plural of anecdote is not evidence." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGYKJyhuM+Z

Slightly faster h.264 decoder

2007-06-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
can do to get a bit of a speed boost? I've already turned off PulseAudio, window compositing, and shut down apps taking CPU time (like Azureus). Thanks in advance. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) "The plural of anecdote is not

Re: gps and linux?

2007-06-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
USB) emit NMEA data, which is standard. Any Linux GPS tool can parse it. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) "The plural of anecdote is not evidence." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6

Re: OT: symlinks question

2007-05-31 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 31 May 2007 21:01:44 +0200 Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a single command to change the target of a symlink? Try using the -f switch on ln. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12

Re: powersave error.

2007-05-30 Thread Andrew J. Barr
d yourself to. powerdev is for gnome-power-manager, perhaps it is different for powersaved/kpowersave. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Vers

Re: Yahoo chat client for Debian

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
rd instead of stupid stopgap measures that ultimately > ensures continued IM noninteroperability? There is also Gajim for the GTK+-inclined among you. I don't know what the status of voice support there is, however... - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerp

Re: powersave error.

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
." How to check DBUS configuration? Try the following command as root: # gpasswd -a powerdev Then log out and log back in. > I don't get any > options in kpowersave button in the tray. I have klaptop also > running. Whether both are complementary or replacements. > - -- Andr

Re: [OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
e are cool lights > inside the case? There isn't any and no. Gamers seem more susceptible than most to that old saw about a fool and his money... > /me wanders off muttering about them dern whippersnappers > > A - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; power

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 30 May 2007 01:30:36 +0530 "Deboo ^" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ATI Radeon This isn't enough information. Are you using the free driver ("radeon") or the non-free, unsupported binary blob ("fglrx&q

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-28 Thread Andrew J. Barr
m just working in console. It only happens > if I switch to tty consoles even for a minute and then back to X ... > btw, just had to do that just now too. > > Any help appriciated. > > Regards, > Deboo [0] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7916 - -- Andrew J. Barr

Re: bcm43xx issues an error message every minute

2007-05-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
ges showing up every minute > until the error is solved? > > Any hint is welcome. > Thanks in advance, > > G. Heinrich > > > - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answ

Re: connecting HP Pavilion zv5260 to a tv

2007-05-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
his cable ? > > Any suggestions will be very welcome... > > TIA > > BTW, I am running Etch. > - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGI

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew J. Barr
alking points that now pass for conventional wisdom in the press. The Democrats deserve plenty of blame for not standing up for what they believe in, but don't leave out the other half of the story: the Republican bully machine that created the situation in the first place. > Regards, >

Re: sane question

2007-05-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
nice web page[0] that details scanner support. [0] http://www.sane-project.org/ - -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: How to make X listen on port 6000?

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
manager's settings. For GNOME, this is in /etc/gdm. Cheers Arne -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
going to refer to the movie "Dogma", which is one of every disaffected former Catholic's favorite movies, if for no other reason than George Carlin is a cardinal. -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapp

Re: program to rip just audio from avseq.DAT files on VCDs

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
o what you want. Both have extensive documentation. ;-) > thankyou so much :-) > > Kind Regards > > Siju > > -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."

Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
#x27;s more it can't handle different kinds of wav files like ALSA's aplay command can. Doug. -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis, 1

Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Mplayer to get what you want. You might need the repository from www.debian-multimedia.org, espeically if you want to deal in patent-encumbered algorithms. Regards, Deboo -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the fla

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
utlook think there's an attachment. -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Fixed fonts in Debian

2007-05-06 Thread Andrew J. Barr
ever, or the debian.org web site) for xfont and you'll see > a slew of them. For fixed-width I use either monospace or terminus but > there are others. There's also gsfonts-x11 that allows X to use the > fonts supplied with gs (ghostscript, a postscript renderer). > >

Re: extract progressive frames from dv file

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
stream. There are deinterlacing techniques, but they reduce the quality and resolution of the image somewhat, depending on the technique used. Mplayer can do this, consult the documentation. -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 x86_64) Debian/1.5

Re: General questions...

2007-04-30 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: > 2) Ubuntu had a little graphical app that loaded upon double clicking > DEB files, it let you install them - what is this app? :D gdebi -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 x86_64) Debian/1.5.0.10

Re: PRISM 2/2.5/3 wifi driver for Debian?

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
RISM 3 > device. So does Debian have a PRISM driver? Last I heard linux-wlan-ng was the place to go for Intersil USB Wifi support in Linux. - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; en-US; X11; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 i686) Debian/1.5.0.10dfsg.1-3 "Why must I fail at every attempt at

Re: Lean lenny on USB stick

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew J. Barr
localepurge. Also, I've always been annoyed by the installation of hplip, at least as a part of the default GNOME install. Not only is this of no use to me (I have a PS/PCL HP printer on a CUPS server) it takes up disk space /and/ memory--there are daemons started at boot time. Andrew >

Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew J. Barr
s reboots for one thing, and one thing only: changing your kernel. Even then, you can use kexec() to reboot without running the firmware again. - -- Andrew J. Barr Linux on PowerPC: http://www.penguinppc.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with M

Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew J. Barr
work better that way. > Many TIA, > Dennis > > - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 (en-US; X11; Linux 2.6.21 i686) Debian/4.1 "Why must I fail at every attempt at masonry?" -- Homer Simpson, "Mom and Pop Art" [AABF15] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/26/07 18:40, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:45:46AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 04/26/07 09:44, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Systems talk about types. >>> Huh? "Systems == types"? >>> >>> Th

Re: Kernel upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Claughton wrote: > Ah, makes sense. I've never used LILO, only Grub. You didn't miss anything, trust me. - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 ppc) (Debian/1.5.0.10dfsg.

Re: [OT] Favoured Firewall

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
firewall. Most of the other things people are discussing here are higher-level tools designed to configure the kernel-level IPtables stuff. For a desktop system, I prefer Firestarter. For a server or headless system I use Shorewall, mostly because it's easily administered via Webmin. - -- A

Re: Error message: `This page contains information of a type...'

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list and run: aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree If you are on another architecture, the packages mozilla-plugin-gnash or swfdec-mozilla are your only options. > Thanks for any help, > Rodolfo > > - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (com

Re: [OT] Re: Debian User List

2007-04-24 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > I can't access the site, since I don't have a flash extension > installed. See what not enabling flash can gain! I'm on a PowerPC laptop. Flash isn't an option for me. :P - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5

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