Re: Microsoft Virtual Earth-based apps not working

2009-04-22 Thread Rob Starling
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 03:12:24PM -0400, Eric Gerlach wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm having some trouble using Microsoft Virtual Earth-based apps like: > > http://www.realtor.ca/ > http://192.237.29.245/hastinfoweb/ (my local transit planning site) > > The little flags on the maps don't show up. >

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread Rob Starling
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > > I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did touch anything, > > > so how can I tell my dpi

Re: database.php

2009-03-30 Thread Rob Starling
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:54:41AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <74aa57df090337t7ab8746ftc12eecb4bcd0a...@mail.gmail.com>, hadi > motamedi wrote: > >Dear All > >Can you please let me know how I can open the "database.php" file on my MS > >Windows client ? > > .php files are (gene

Re: mount problem

2009-03-29 Thread Rob Starling
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 02:49:46AM +0200, cesarino vinh wrote: > Why can't my Debian normally mount smbfs? > > I Tried many mount options in fstab, but I always get one strange result: I > can create folders in the mounted dir, BUT: I can't create files, because it > say's I don't have permission.

Re: [work around] Re: size problem of large file transfer over https

2009-03-26 Thread Rob Starling
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 01:27:27PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Well, I split the tar file to smaller chunks of 680M each (using the > split command). > $> split -d -b 680M /tmp/datafile.tar datfile ... > The only problem is that the remote user uses Windows and will need a > method to join them together

Re: testing microphone - how?

2009-03-25 Thread Rob Starling
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 06:21:43PM +, T o n g wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:17:53 -0400, H.S. wrote: > > > . . . Mic Boost. If not set, the microphone will "not work" > >> under Linux. Anyone knows how to easily set it up? > > > > I just do: > > $> alsamixer > > thanks. > > Any command l

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-25 Thread Rob Starling
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:10:42PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:53:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-03-25 05:16, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >>> Tapani Tarvainen schrieb: > > kj wrote: > >> Now, I've been running the usual find . -type f -exec rm {} \; > >>>

Re: Stopwatch

2009-03-23 Thread Rob Starling
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 06:29:52PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 02:27:24PM +, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: > > Hello. > > > > Is there a simple stopwatch application for Debian (Gnome)? I’ve looked > > in the repositories, without success. > > time cat #;) yeah, i usuall

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-19 Thread Rob Starling
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:07:11PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I'm curious: where did people come up with the incongruous idea of using > find/rsync/younameit rather than just use plain old `rm'? It seemed like the OP could use a pocketful of general un*x "how standard tools work together". Ma

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-18 Thread Rob Starling
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:05:08PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > kj wrote: > > Now, I've been running the usual find . -type f -exec rm {} \; > > but this is going at about 700,000 per day. Would simply doing an rm > > -rf on the Maildir be quicker? Or is there a better way? > > As already s

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-18 Thread Rob Starling
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:25:13AM -0700, Raquel wrote: > On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:37:53 + > kj wrote: > > I discovered a Maildir on my server with 4+ million mails in. The > > result of a cronjob that runs every minute - this has been fixed. > > > > Now, I've been running the usual find . -t

Re: No sound on a Thinkpad T61 w/ ALSA and AS1984 sound card (redux)

2008-12-24 Thread Rob Starling
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 07:47:49PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008 06:25, Rob Starling wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 07:31:12PM -0800, Kyle Barbour wrote: > > > > > > lsmod | grep snd_hda_intel returns: > > > > > > snd_hd

Re: No sound on a Thinkpad T61 w/ ALSA and AS1984 sound card (redux)

2008-12-23 Thread Rob Starling
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 07:31:12PM -0800, Kyle Barbour wrote: > A while back (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/01/msg02415.html), > I was having trouble getting sound to work on my Thinkpad T61. > Although that was resolved and everything worked wonderfully, a few > days ago sound stopped

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Starling
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 06:42:20AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:23:58AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 18 December 2008, Alex Samad wrote > > about 'Re: LVM reorganization': > > >On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:31:18AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

Re: Backup Image for my needs

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Starling
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:11:10AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:51:12PM -0800, Carl Johnson was > heard to say: > > Just because a package is automatically installed doesn't mean that it > > is the choice the package manager would choose. For example many > > package

Re: Confusion about legality of Linux

2008-12-10 Thread Rob Starling
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:08:48AM -0600, Bryan Bishop wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Tom Ashley wrote: > > http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/linux-stop-holding-our-kids-back.html ... > All joking aside, this does strike me as peculiar. Not because it's > yet another uninformed indiv

Re: X11 Forwarding with Lenny?

2008-11-29 Thread Rob Starling
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 09:37:03PM +0100, swm38 swm38 wrote: > It's the exact same output for both systems, but X11 forwarding works > only in one direction. does the output of "ssh -Xvv ..." in each direction differ in an interesting way? --Rob* -- /

Re: Screen blanker & Mouse

2008-11-25 Thread Rob Starling
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 01:58:08AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 2008 November 24 12:32, Manon Metten wrote: > > Whenever I move my mouse, the screen wakes up from either blanking > > or dpms mode. I would like to turn that off and have the screen wake up > > only when I hit the

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-15 Thread Rob Starling
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 09:19:58PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Besides: > > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct > When replying to messages on the mailing list, do not send > a carbon copy (CC) to the original poster unless they > explicitly request to be copied. might it

Re: Stic device naming with udev, help please

2008-11-15 Thread Rob Starling
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 08:08:51PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > SUBSYSTEMS=="usb-serial", ATTRS{busnum}=="6", ATTRS{devnum}=="3", > DRIVERS=="pl2303", NAME="ttyUSB0" > SUBSYSTEMS=="usb-serial", ATTRS{busnum}=="7", ATTRS{devnum}=="5", > DRIVERS=="pl2303", NAME="ttyUSB1" try naming them something

Re: Talking with Yahoo Messenger (try Ekiga)

2008-11-07 Thread Rob Starling
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 07:21:30AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:57:29PM +0100, Martin wrote: > > Hello, > > I find out that gaim is able to use text messaging with many > > programs. I want to use voice messaging (use it as phone) > > when other person is using Yahoo Mes

Re: Fwd: xrandr -o left

2008-11-07 Thread Rob Starling
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:24:08PM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > I think that's the point - e.g. Sears Portrait Studios (and other > photography stores that do portrait shots) often set their monitors up > that way for more vertical real-estate. I was actually doing it here > for a bit, but my CRT

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: cgi-bin stopped working in apache ?! please help SOLVED

2008-09-11 Thread Rob Starling
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:19:34AM +0200, André Warnier wrote: > Apart from the related tip from Kris about the various virtual server > config files in /etc/apache2/sites-available and > /etc/apache2/sites-enabled, here is what I do to insure that virtual > servers are "included" in the corr

Re: Do Debian's users care about the AGPL?

2008-09-03 Thread Rob Starling
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:52:57PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:23:06PM -0600, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > > Yes, that's the spirit of Free software that the GPL and AGPL tries to > > enforce. > > AGPL, yes, which is where it oversteps the bounds. The GPL no. If the > G