Re: debian disk is dying

2009-10-17 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > The hardware needs to be returned to the factory for a warranty-covered > replacement.  I have an esata docking station and an esata hard drive I can > put this system on though.  I'm using the command line and figure I'll Two things you mig

Re: see ya

2009-10-12 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 01:07:56AM -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote: > >> Ah go back to TLUG you frickin twit. You were an arsehole there and are one >> here. > > That was rude and unnecessary. Sure, and from what I can tell it was an over the top

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:07 PM, green wrote: > You should be able to adjust your touchpad behavior with gsynaptics or in > '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'... Well, that is a good step in the right direction. Thanks. I'll experiment further. -- thanks for letting me change the magnetic patterns on you

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Regarding the latter, I don't think you want to check the "mplayer: > jumping around" thread. Joe doesn't seem familiar with decency. I thought he was perfectly decent. He inquired about maybe your touchpad being an issue, but never did I

see ya

2009-10-11 Thread David Fox
ACK! Sorry for posting to the user and not the list! On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:51 PM,   wrote: > Interesting how opinions can differ so much between reasonable people > (which I'm pretty sure I am, and I'll assume you are).  In addition I'm sure the list quality here (and has been in my experie

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-10 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:33 AM, J.Hwan.Kim wrote: > Hi, everyone > > Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program except gnomebaker ? > > Thanks in advance. k3b works well for easily transferring a set of files over to a CD, or to put a bunch of mp3s or what have you and convert them on the fly to

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-09 Thread David Fox
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > A $600 full length ISA card and a cable to the 8088 socket quadrupled my > system performance in about 15 minutes.  Best upgrade I ever made. My first computer was in the early 80s and it had 16K of RAM (TRS 80). I think 64 bit debian will

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-08 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:46 PM, lee wrote: > Then there would need to be only two packages: vdpau for those who > need it, and the rest (which could suggest vdpau which could tell you > which cards can use it). Doing that would probably not be possible, given the nature of this particular compon

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-07 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:46 PM, lee wrote: > > Link where? :) I have a 9800GT. Oops, I forgot the link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU > Unfortunately, there's no roll-back option in aptitude ... or is > there? If there was, there won't be any need to decide between stable, That would be

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-07 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:33 PM, lee wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:00:52PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > >> More to the point, since you have an amd64 system, why bother with >> ia32 components? I don't recall any need for ia32 for nvidia. > > Where do you get a 64bi

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-06 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:59 PM, lee wrote: > > And nvidia-kernel-common: > > > "This package contains files shared between NVIDIA module packages." Common refers essentially to support files., You should install the package, but it's not dependent on the driver or the version of the kernel. > nv

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-06 Thread David Fox
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM, lee wrote: > cat:/home/lee# /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 > Segmentation fault > cat:/home/lee# You can't "run" a library directly. More to the point, since you have an amd64 system, why bother with ia32 components? I don't recall any need for ia32 for

Re: Mini 10v

2009-09-26 Thread David Fox
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > - because it's on a stick it has no swap > - this machine is good enough for the typical MPEG-4 movies (on my >  hi-res TV), but I don't want to risk skips in the middle of the movie >  just because postfix is running it's queue or whateve

Re: Silverlight/Moonlight/Tuva

2009-08-29 Thread David Fox
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Has anyone succeeded in using the "moonlight" packages in order to > view the videos at Microsoft's Tuva project? If so, which packages > are needed exactly / which tricks? I didn't get it to work. I reloaded firefox, brought up the site

Re: Silverlight/Moonlight/Tuva

2009-08-29 Thread David Fox
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Has anyone succeeded in using the "moonlight" packages in order to > view the videos at Microsoft's Tuva project? If so, which packages > are needed exactly / which tricks? A few clickthroughs on that particular site suggest that they 1)

Re: inode question

2009-08-22 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Eugene Apolinary wrote: > Could that be possible to find the same inode, just because of there are two > filesystems? Yes, of course. Each fs is independent of the other, hence it is possible to have two inode entries with the same number. Of course they'd not poin

Re: Happy birthday Debian

2009-08-17 Thread David Fox
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > Also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WusQjMnD0cs while you "eat" it. Neil Sedaka? I almost threw up. -- thanks for letting me change the magnetic patterns on your hard disk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Happy birthday Debian

2009-08-16 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Alice Ferrazzi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > apt-get install debian-cake The following packages are BROKEN: debian-cake: dependency problems - debian-cake depends on debian-candles, but is not installable someone has to file a bug against li

Re: Happy birthday Debian

2009-08-16 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Chris wrote: > Same here... Now, where's the cake?! It's only an apt-get install away... ;) > -- -- thanks for letting me change the magnetic patterns on your hard disk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: 64-bit *libraries* in 32-bit repositories???

2009-07-20 Thread David Fox
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > But why the opposite, like lib64bz2-1.0 in the i386 repository? Maybe just for the converse reason, running amd64 binaries on a mostly 32-bit userland setup. I guess this would work with a 32-bit kernel. For much the same reason, some librar

Re: Debian AMD64 and Intel CPUs

2009-07-12 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, T o n g wrote: > Can someone tell me what kind of Intel CPUs have that EM64T? Any easy > rule of thumb? E.g., can I safely assume all those Intel 64 Duecore are One needs to be careful with Intel nomenclature. Some CoreDuos are 32 bit only, but most if not all cor

Re: new ekiga: taking too much cpu

2009-06-11 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:58 PM, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > After a recent upgrade we got new Ekiga in Testing (Ekiga > 3.2.1~git20090515.9d0263-1). Wonderful, since the last version of You might try downloading the source for 3.2.4 off Ekiga's website along with the corresponding ptlib and opal lib

Re: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.0

2009-06-10 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Aniruddha wrote: > I try to install a 32-bit program in 64-bit Debian but I get the > following message: 'error while loading shared libraries: Have you installed the 32-bit compatibility libraries? Anytime you manually install a library (and really, you should l

Re: squeeze grep status

2009-06-06 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Apparently argument list too long is an operating system error.  I made it > happen with ed too.  I can divide and conquer though by limiting argument > lists with regular expressions in this case. That's always an option, or you could use xar

Re: squeeze grep is broken

2009-06-06 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I tried a command line like: grep -in "print-installation-architecture" * | > less and got me a surprise.  I was in /var/lib/dpkg/info when I did I don't think this is a bug at all. When you do the command, the shell is trying to expand the f

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3--open formats

2009-05-25 Thread David Fox
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:49 PM, ZephyrQ wrote: > it at a friends house) or needs marching band music (a HUGE gap in Linux > support, BTW).  She has also given up trying to convince me to load XP 'just > so I can get stuff done'. I hope you're not hinting that Linux and marching band music don't

Re: Which 64-bit version to use

2009-05-21 Thread David Fox
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > For 64-bit version, Ubuntu has only the AMD64 version. Which is all you need. > > On the Debian web page at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ , the > architectures supported, include AMD64 and Intel IA-64. Debian supports IA-64, Ubuntu

Re: digitalizing audio records from vinyl supports

2009-05-20 Thread David Fox
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:04 AM, wrote: > If your turntable doesn't have a "line out" (mine didn't) you can > purchase an in-line preamp for a modest sum (mine was purchased from > DAK) I'll think you'll find that you need to use a preamp for any turntable to sound card connection, because phon

Re: using debian dvd iso image with apt

2009-05-18 Thread David Fox
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi you all, > > I have 3 debian boxes (two i386 and one amd64) which are not connected to > the network so I usually do upgrades by downloading weekly generated dvd iso > images, burning images to a dvd-rw and running apt-cdrom add && apt-

Re: Using UNRAR (create 1 iso from 19 archives)

2009-05-02 Thread David Fox
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > On http://www.dvdboard.de/forum/showthread.php?t=121319 are links to 19 RAR > archives, plus md5, plus a .sfv file that contains a list of the 19 files > with what looks like checksums, that I downloaded. I am instructed there Running unrar on

Re: can't install xfdesktop from unstable

2009-04-28 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:26 AM, JoeHill wrote: > node1:/home/joehill# apt-cache policy xfdesktop4 > xfdesktop4: >  Installed: (none) >  Candidate: 4.4.2-7 >  Version table: >     4.6.0-2 0 >        800 http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/main Packages >        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status >     4.4.2-7

Re: magic sysRq

2009-04-28 Thread David Fox
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: > Why "S" twice?  Or just a mistake? Probably overkill. Habits die hard, and for instance 'sync;sync;sync' is probably engrained into the fingers of many a Unix admin, but it's probably overkill. Reminds me of that line from Kitchen Table So

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-28 Thread David Fox
oops. I wanted this to go to the list. darn gmail :( On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:13 AM, David Fox wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Miles Fidelman < >> It's a reference manual, not a getting started book - and like any reference >> manual it tries to have everything

Re: Duvida

2009-04-22 Thread David Fox
2009/4/22 André França : > Olá Pessoal, me chamo André Luiz, e moro em Aracaju-SE; > A pouco tempo comecei a instalar o Debian 5.0 no meu Notebook e na I think you want to ask the Portuguese mailing list http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-portuguese/ -- thanks for letting me change the magneti

Re: openoffice_impress troubles konqueror??

2009-04-22 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:56 AM, steef wrote: > hi list, > > please read this explanation with some patience. > > for my wife i produce large files (slides) with openoffice_impress upto 140 > MB. for her presentations. before hearings of scientists i have to convert > these files into  .ppt (windo

Re: Instalacion de debian

2009-04-21 Thread David Fox
2009/4/21 Jimmy Muñoz Bravo : > Buenas noches señores de Debian > Me gustaria instalar debian en mi pc.  No tengo linux y quiero aprender a > instalarlo y utilizarlo. > Les describo mi computador para que me recomienden q version de debian le Hola! Mi Espanol no esta bueno - puede escribirle en e

Re: please help me to migrate to french-mailing-list

2009-04-19 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Maurice Guerrier wrote: > Hello, > > I'm from french, I tried to post my messages in this maling-list in english > but sometimes it's difficults to explain what I mean, Just subscribe to the debian-user-french mailing list the same way you subscribed to this one.

Re: grip/lenny doesn't extract audio CDs first tracks

2009-04-18 Thread David Fox
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Nicolas BERCHER wrote: > On another computer with the same grip version, it works good. > Could that be related to a CD drive problem? Any idea? You might want to further troubleshoot the problem by using a lower-level tool such as cdparanoia and try to rip just

Re: are these hacks?

2009-04-09 Thread David Fox
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Occasionally on some websites I visit daily I'll get one of two > incorrect results: > > 1) The home page for www.sogosearch.com > 2) A page with nothing but the words "It works!" on it I get a picture of flowers no matter what word I type, an

Re: Why no Skype packages?

2009-04-02 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Dieder Vervoort wrote: > The problem is that a lot of windoze users are using Skype. So if you want > to call them you need Skype ( if you don't have a Skype handset of course) Or you can try and convince them to use Ekiga. -- thanks for letting me change the m

Re: my header field is missing

2009-04-01 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:48 AM, laura retyi wrote: > can you help me i keep getting this message that my header field is missing > and i am making bad request We need more information to help. What was the command you were running, what is the expected output, and basically what were you trying

Re: OT: Faulty laptop wanted

2009-03-30 Thread David Fox
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:53 PM, adam jay wrote: > hey buyer, >  i am Dare  from Nigeria and i found u ads on the website looking for a > computer well i work as a computer  dealer  and we got some computer or But first don't we all have to send thousands of dollars Western Union? ) giggles

Re: Why no Skype packages?

2009-03-29 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:24 PM, JoeHill wrote: > > Was just looking at all the 'how to install Skype' pages, and wondering why, > as > far as I can tell, there are no Debian packages. Is this a licensing issue? it's commercial.I have it installed in Ubuntu but don't do much (yet) with it. Mayb

Re: DVD authoring

2009-03-19 Thread David Fox
2009/3/19 Nuno Magalhães : > That was my first try, but there's no such package in the debian repos > (unstable amd64) and i do have www.debian-multimedia.org in my Hmm, I'm running Ubuntu :) so the package is in their multiverse repository. If it's not in a similar repository (multimedia, contri

Re: DVD authoring

2009-03-19 Thread David Fox
2009/3/19 Nuno Magalhães : > Is there a .deb for that? Or any way i can install a .tgz that is > easily managed by apt? Sure is, so you could apt-get install tovid, and you'd probably want the other related packages as well, todiscgui, and tovidgui. > > Nuno Magalhães > LU#484677 -- thanks for

Re: DVD authoring

2009-03-19 Thread David Fox
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: > Running Squeezeand lookng for a comprehensive DVD authoring > software. There doesn't seem to be much in the repositories , at least > nothing with a nice GUI front-end. tovid (tovid.sourceforge.net) is nice, has a nice generator for

Re: Help! Grub is broken

2009-03-18 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:01 PM, 明覺 wrote: > It all happened suddenly. I was editing a file in gedit 3 minutes ago, and > when I was saving it, it said "readonly filesystem". then i restarted my I had a box that would frequently not be able to find its boot disks, got error 17s from time to time

Re: man pages

2009-03-14 Thread David Fox
> anybody knows a good search engine without any adds you can install locally > your site that indexes the content of your html pages ? Have you looked at swish (swish++ or swish-e, swish-e-dev) in the repositories? I know people who use that to index stuff, and it's pretty fast. > how long does

Re: Skype

2009-02-24 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:47 PM, H.S. wrote: > I am seriously thinking of shifting from Skype to Ekiga. Does the latter > support encryption? As far as I can tell, no. > > Also, I see that we have these version in Debian I'm running ekiga 3.0.1 in ubuntu Jaunty & Intrepid. Perhaps there's a t

Re: OT: file system versus databases

2009-02-24 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Mag Gam wrote: > Paul: > For instance, grep "something" country/2005/??/01/foo.txt > > It gives an instant result. Thats how we are using it and we love it. Are there a lot of files in each directory, or are there a lot of directories? One thing I can think off

Re: Use of Swap Space

2009-01-31 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > It seems as though free won't return the accurate size. I also have 4 gb of RAM (new Quadcore Intel) and 'free -g' reports '3' as well, I suspect this is underrounding to the extreme, and 'free -gb' returns a more realistic number: f...@n

Re: usb hard drive diagnosis

2009-01-29 Thread David Fox
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I'm a bit concerned about the health status of my usb based hard disk > backup. One of my recent backups (rsync) prematurely exited with I/O > errors in syslog. I fsck'ed the drive, fixing some 2000 errors like Ow. That seems like a l

fox.com & abc.com video players

2009-01-26 Thread David Fox
Oops wanted this to go to the list -- Forwarded message -- From: David Fox Date: Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:33 PM Subject: Re: fox.com & abc.com video players To: Ron Johnson On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > You must not have Flash installed, since

Re: Needed Quote

2009-01-20 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:32 AM, PM_Water Pump Supply wrote: > Good Day, >Please can you supply me any of these items as a special order? > 1, Grundfos SQ Pumps 30SQ10-130 1 C P/N 11199 > 2, Shurflo Pumps ( Model 9325-043-101) 9300 Submersible Pump Linux runs on nearly everything

Re: VNC problems

2008-12-27 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > It should be executable AFAIK, what does the log say? > > $ cat ~/.vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP desktop" & exec startkde > $ cat ~/.vnc/*log 27/12/

Re: VNC problems

2008-12-27 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Tim Frink wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to run a remote session on a machine using vnc. I had this working before in ubuntu hardy, but now vnc doesn't work, all I get is a blank screen as well. I am trying this using ubuntu intrepid on a new notebook trying to connec

Re: Creative Zen mp3 Player

2008-12-20 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Raquel wrote: > I've returned the Zen to Amazon and ordered an iPod. Thanks to > everyone who tried to help. It may sound silly, but after spending > much of the day on this I'm just not up to the hassle. Sorry to hear about that. I hope the ipod works better.

Re: Creative Zen mp3 Player

2008-12-20 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Raquel wrote: > Hm, I can't find libmtp in Etch. $ aptitude show mtp-tools to see if it is there and then install it, that should do what you want. But I remember running it on Etch when Etch was still in testing, then I switched over to lenny in April 2007.

Re: Creative Zen mp3 Player

2008-12-20 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Raquel wrote: > I got my spouse a Creative Zen 8GB mp3 player for Christmas and I'm > trying to get it loaded with her music before Christmas. I've > charged the player using the USB port but Debian doesn't find the > player. You might have a player that uses the

Re: Compilation of Ardour3 fails: cannot find libsndfile

2008-12-03 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Tommy Bongaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:21:11AM +0100, Tommy Bongaerts wrote: > >> Mhh, I prolly need to tell the system to look for header files under >> /opt... Let's see if that works. > > If I only knew how it should be done... Ch

Re: FROM LAST APRIL, I almost got it right! Was: Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-11-29 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't know, but Jumping Jackflash has got a nice ring to it. A credit to the > Stones, and every time you boot, the login screen shows an animated version > of Mick Jagger, and a few words from the tune. I wish that Henriett

Re: OT: Looking for free email service with disposable email addresses

2008-11-17 Thread David Fox
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I have free email account at yahoo.com.au. It has feature that I > am used to, namely disposable email addresses. But unfortunately I > have troubles with it too. More often than I would like it lost (does Try gmail. Some wil

Re: How to send tunes to MP3 player?

2008-11-16 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Dennis Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings; > > Is there a program on Debian/lenny that will send/write tunes onto an MP3 > player? It is one of those little ones that you plug into a USB port. On Depends. If your mp3 player can just show up as a device in

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-09 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Testing breaks less often than Unstable. But when it breaks, it takes a > long time for things to get rectified. Sometimes this could be days and > it could be months at times. I did have some issues with the nvidia driver,

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-09 Thread David Fox
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:35 PM, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you run testing (and keep it updated), you don't need to worry > about making the leap from one stable release to the next. That was I ran etch when it was still testing, then kept it at testing for sometime until I got a new

Re: t-mobile android htc google phone not mounting

2008-11-05 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > A friend dropped by and plugged his new Google Android HTC phone > into a usb slot on my sid box (with a 2.6.26 kernel) and when we typed > dmesg we saw a /dev/sdb however when I typed > fdisk -l Have you tried dire

Re: Cannot run 64-bit OS in virtualbox-ose

2008-10-18 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Slim Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using virtualbox-ose 1.6.6-dfsg-2, I cannot run any x86_64 > Linux distribution (e.g. Fedora 9). The guest OS complains You'll likely need the full product and version 2.0 in order to do 64bit guest additions. I ran into the sa

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-15 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:15 AM, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have wajig installed but don't know how to use it making search. > 'man wajig' is very simple not much info provided. I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ wajig whichpkg mysqladmin JIG Warning: fping was not found. Consider instal

Re: Konqueror, mplayer and embedded mp3

2008-10-07 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Augustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Settings > Configure Konqueror > File Associations > audio > x-mp3 > > Application Preference Order has Mplayer Movie Player listed first. I think you should have a General tab that lists some possible choices for audio/mpeg as

Re: Keeping more up to date than Lenny, safely?

2008-10-06 Thread David Fox
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. Im running Lenny on two computers, and have been very happy with it. > Nothings ever really been broken, so i dont think that a "stable" > version is necessary for what i need. Well, you might take a look at si

Re: VLC x DVD x USB connected.

2008-09-27 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:05 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can VLC play a a movie from a DVD drive > connected by USB 2? Are any specific > settings or permissions required. There shouldn't be. As long as the DVD can be mounted everything should work fine. There aren't - or at leest shouldn't

Re: Which package for libawt.so

2008-09-18 Thread David Fox
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search libawt.so > sun-java5-bin: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.12/jre/lib/i386/libawt.so > sun-java6-bin: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.02/jre/lib/i386/libawt.so That's the canonical way to search. I found

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

2008-09-12 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (stats) Here's what I get - just for reference. I'm in San Jose, CA, rather close to google, actually. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/storage$ mtr -c30 --report -n www.google.com HOST: newbox Loss% Snt Last Avg

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-20 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But that's approximately 2**34 gigabytes, and the lowest > price-per-gigabyte that I can find for RAM chips is about $20. So to > max out a 64-bit memory space, you would need to spend around > > $343,597,383,680 A

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-19 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At my university we run fluid dynamic simulations. These simulations > create many small files (30,000) per hour. Their size is very small > (20k to 200k). Instead of having this on the filesystem since it take My approach: mak

Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-10 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TTBOMK, neither apt/aptitude/synaptics stores explicit "this is why package > A is recommended" data. If it did, I'd immediately convert to that app. In times like these, then aptitude why or whynot may be useful. I've only

Re: Installing Deluge

2008-08-03 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why isn't it in the Ubuntu repository? It is, deluge-torrent and deluge-torrent-common. I just checked. > Ron Johnson, Jr. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: Phoenix-awardbios Setup AMD64 Dual Core

2008-08-01 Thread David Fox
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Account for Debian group mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As stated above I "enabled" this but does anyone know if this is the > correct setting? for a AMD64 Dual Core machine running kernel-image > vmlinuz-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-amd64 and 4 Gigs of ram. I don't see ho

64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread David Fox
Sorry, I meant to go to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:34 PM Subject: Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron To: Account for Debian group mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Account for

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread David Fox
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:27 AM, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Those, of course, are cpu tests and don't really test out all the > things in the machine, such as network, disk reads/writes etc. Another possibility is to run a script that continously compiles a recent li

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread David Fox
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Account for Debian group mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to put the computer as a whole under a stress test, performance > test. I can look at the /etc/dmesg and see that the CPS's are up and Possibly mprime's torture test? That's at mersenne.org. I've us

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-07-31 Thread David Fox
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:58 PM, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But then again, you might want to look at R. OK, it seems that xlispstat has not been updated since 2003. (Cut & pasted from http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/xlispstat/ if you browse to the Src mirror and then g

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-07-31 Thread David Fox
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Vwaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Couldn't I add http://packages.debian.org/sarge to /etc/apt/ > sources.list and then say: Not a good idea, because then you'd be mixing distributions, and sarge is Pretty Old Now. I haven't played with xlispstat in several years

Re: Motherboard for desktops with preinstalled Debian

2008-07-21 Thread David Fox
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am liking the AMD 780G chipset but I can't find anywhere about it's level of > compatibility with etch. Does anyone know anything? Phoronix use the latest If a motherboard is completely compatible with ubuntu, one would th

Re: Cannot find /dev/parport0

2008-07-18 Thread David Fox
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Account for Debian group mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the /etc/printcap file I have: > > lp|Our Printer:\ >:lp=/dev/parport0:\ >:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ I don't think the printer was ever actually called parport0 in dev. Was it that way in S

Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network

2008-07-16 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh wow, that name brings back some memories... Never had one of those. My first was a clone XT at Fry's electronics - no hard drive at first, just 2 floppies (both 360K) and hercules monochrome card and 12" amber monitor.

Re: sudo password visible through ssh command line

2008-07-13 Thread David Fox
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > other have answered was to get around this. How about ssh straight to > root@ the box (turn sshd to allow root login by sign only and set a I don't think this is such a good idea, because direct outside root logins should be

Re: i386 or amd64?

2008-07-13 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am about to buy the mobo that Doug Tutty has: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe, albeit > with a more moderate AM2 processor: AMD Athlon X2 4050e 2.1GHz 45W 65nm > Dual-Core. You should be able to keep the current installati

Re: cpuinfo in HP DL580 G4

2008-07-10 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Ding Honghui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > hi, here is the cpuinfo for HP DL580 G4 with kernel 2.6.18-6-686. HT is > not disabled. > > This server have 4 slots for cpu and every slot can contain a dual core > cpu.

Re: [Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-06 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:57 PM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "lahf_lm"?!? Supports LAHF in 64 bit mode, which is the closest I could find on google. If you have that, I don't see why you wouldn't have lm as they should go together, AFAIK. With semprons you have to be careful if they'll

Re: audacious: Illegal instruction

2008-07-04 Thread David Fox
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Florian. But funny is that I can run it OK in another Sid partition > on this box that runs a recompiled 2.6.24 Debian i386 kernel. > > This Sid partition runs a home rolled 2.6.25.9 and has the problem... I don'

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:35 AM, tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A typical result is burning the CD with KB3, which appears to work, but > then complains that the disk image does not match the downloaded ISO Since you've already verified the ISOs with md5sum, then something may be awry with ei

Re: OT: MP3 Player for Ogg?

2008-06-22 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the iRiver T30 the best choice? It looks pretty clunky though perhaps > not as bad as my old cassette player. It's decidedly better than an old cassette player. :) I have one of these players - acquired it about 2

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Money is tight, of course. If I were the student and there is a > modest-priced laptop with Debian and OpenOffice I'd take it in a flash. I'm www.tuxtops.com is a place to start, and maybe this place http://www.linux

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But does the modem work? > No, but the paper tape punch does. :) > Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RealPlayer Guidance Needed

2008-06-10 Thread David Fox
OOPS forgot to send this to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:43 AM Subject: Re: RealPlayer Guidance Needed To: "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Th

Re: Anyone use Linux to author DVDs?

2008-06-07 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I'm using DVD Styler (from debian-multimedia.org) because it's > simple, and I know nothing about authoring. The disks I *have* made > work great from vlc, but not stand-a

Re: The 'Good old days (WAS:Re: Aptitude Version: 0.4.11.2-1 eat my memory after update...)

2008-06-06 Thread David Fox
On 6/5/08, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It almost makes me yearn for the days of my first computer... a TRS-80 > Model III that came with 16KB RAM and 16KB ROM which I upgraded to the max > of 48KB RAM and 16KB ROM. Then I remember that that machine, at twice the Mine was (if you

Re: 64bit virtual guest

2008-06-05 Thread David Fox
On 6/4/08, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My next thought, before going back to vmware, was qemu, does it handle > 64b guests and can I start a vm headless, that was the other problem i > had with virtualbox I tried it with the 64-bit sabayon dvd I have here and it tells me it only th

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-27 Thread David Fox
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, there are 2, maybe three other semi-active women on the > list. The reason is obvious: math is hard, computers are icky. The "maybe" one is Michelle. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

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