Best one yet I've seen on this list. Nearly had me for a second.
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On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:25:25 +0200 (CEST)
Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> hi,
> I want to change the address used for my subscription to this list.
> On other lists, there is generally an option to modify the e-mail
> address used for subscribing, but I didn't find that for debian lists.
> Otherwise, I
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:05:43 +0800
Chen Wei wrote:
> hi list,
>
> as a first time debian-user subscriber, I feel been buried alive by
> incoming emails, though I heard there are some monster maillists,
> linux kernel maillist for example, are carrying even heavier traffic.
> Wondering how to ma
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:35:15 +0900
Joel Rees wrote:
> Why is tomboy in the default basic desktop when installed from the
> netinstall CD?
>
> And, more to the point, when I run synaptic and check on uninstalling
> libmono-cor or whatever, it threatens to uninstall gnome. (Not really
> a big deal
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 19:09:25 -0800
Kyle Barbour wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I upgraded to Debian Squeeze a week ago on my Lenovo Thinkpad T61.
> Starting earlier today, after no trigger that I could determine, my
> CPU (an Intel Core 2 Duo) began maxing out on one or both cores to the
> point where d
On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:10:39 -0500
Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> I have run into a problem in re-arranging my desktop. I'd like to
> turn off Nautilus managing the desktop, and lose the icons. Problem is
> I can't do it - the usual gconf-editor change
> (apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop) aren
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:09:44 +0330
hamed hosseini wrote:
> i want software for create dvd movie in linux,like ConvertXtoDVD in
> windows?
>
I just made my first DVD movie yesterday with devede. Worked as I
expected.
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:56:07 -0500
Chris Brennan wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Jason Hsu
> wrote:
>
> > Are there any rankings of the most popular Linux distros for the
> > enterprise desktop? My guess is that the most popular enterprise
> > desktop distros are Ubuntu, RedHat, and
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:34:04 +0200
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user]
>
> [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439]
>
> Hi,
>
> Being the stubborn person that I am, I
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:46:25 +
Brian wrote:
> On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 16:12:33 -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote:
>
> > Either way, you're exposing your internal network to the Internet
> > if you don't have good security procedures in place. Have a strong
> > password (I recommend http://passwordcar
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:21:19 +
Brian wrote:
> On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 15:28:19 -0500, PMA wrote:
>
> > So my question: When I rebooting, can I safely assume
> > that, because fstab is using UUIDs and not "/dev/..."(s),
> > the system won't get confused?
>
> One possible gotcha. When GRUB was
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:56:10 -0600
Jason Hsu wrote:
> I've learned how to turn an old computer into a firewall and DHCP
> server for my tiny home network.
>
> I understand that I can install an SSH server on this machine so that
> I can access it from outside. Once I have this SSH server connec
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:04:01 -0500
Slicky Johnson wrote:
>
> I had an entry listing /dev/sdb1 as...
>
> #/dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
>
> Which was a known bug.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597223
>
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:28:19 -0500
PMA wrote:
> Hi List.
>
> I have installed Squeeze from scratch using a USB stick.
> The installer regarded that stick as "/dev/sda". So the
> /etc/fstab that it installed lists my system disk (til now
> always "/dev/sda") as "/dev/sdb", and similarly my 2nd
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:14:22 -0600
"mike cutie and maia" wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Is their a set of repos to install bidgin I have sid non-free already
> enabled
>
>
>
> When I do an
>
> Apt-get install skype
>
> And
>
> Apt-get install dropbox
>
>
>
> It says it can't find them and
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:26:35 + (UTC)
Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:37:29 +0100, Anton Bretterklieber wrote:
>
> > after update gnome to gnome 2.30 (debian 32-bit testing, debian
> > 64-bit stable), I can't start programs in the panel. Clicking on
> > icons, panel and all icons dis
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:39:02 -0600
Noah Duffy wrote:
> I was trying to install Plymouth on Debain Squeeze. I followed the
> basic instructions, but the only thing I was unable to run was
> update-initramfs. It just tells me that the command isn't found. I'm
> a little confused. Is there somet
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 14:19:22 -0800
freeman wrote:
> As of Monday:
>
> http://debian-multimedia.org/
>
Why leave etch but remove lenny?
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On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:45:31 -0600
lrhorer wrote:
>
> For whatever reason, someone has decided to remove KPackage from the
> Debian distro. 'Really bad idea, if you ask me. Anyway, when I
> upgraded one of my systems to "Squeeze", I issued the `apt-get
> autoremove` command before I realize
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 19:12:05 -0500
Slicky Johnson wrote:
>
> I'm guessing you were blind sided because you have 'testing' in your
> source.list rather than a code name ie squeeze|wheezy. If that is
> indeed the case you should change your habits. It's no different
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:21:48 -0800
kellyremo wrote:
> How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a
> standard Debian install??
>
> http://securitytube.net/USB-Autorun-attacks-against-Linux-at-Shmoocon-2011-video.aspx
>
>
Asking the ##gnome crew it appears the default is
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:13:08 -0500
Slicky Johnson wrote:
> aptitude safe-upgrade breaks/hangs with the following...
>
>
>
> patch (2.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
>
> The options -U --unified-reject-files and --global-reject-file have
> now been removed.
>
>
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:13:08 -0500
Slicky Johnson wrote:
> aptitude safe-upgrade breaks/hangs with the following...
>
>
>
> patch (2.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
>
> The options -U --unified-reject-files and --global-reject-file have
> now been removed.
>
>
aptitude safe-upgrade breaks/hangs with the following...
patch (2.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
The options -U --unified-reject-files and --global-reject-file have now been
removed.
-- Christoph Berg Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:17:11 +0100
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I've not seen anything like
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:36:49 -0500
Mike Viau wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:21:48 -0800 wrote:
> >
>
>
> > How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a
> > standard Debian install??
> >
> > http://securitytube.net/USB-Autorun-attacks-against-Linux-at-Shmoocon-2011-v
On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 17:34:16 -0700
Bob Proulx wrote:
> Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> > Unetbootin works fine with Squeeze, you can find it in the Squeeze
> > repos.
>
> How is it better than simply using 'cp'? On my system /dev/sdg is a
> usb flash device. For example I did:
>
The method from the in
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:42:11 -0500
Paul Cartwright wrote:
---8<---
> As far as the time being wrong, what is the "Normal" ntp package that
> gets installed, or could be installed? I have a package installed,
> ntpdate, but it doesn't look like it has a daemon. I tried ntpd &
> openntpd but wh
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On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:22:27 +0200
Matthias Andersson wrote:
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>
> Hi!
>
> My dad called me yesterday regarding a problem on his machine running
> Debian Lenny. He said he had installed the updates so
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:03:57 -0600
Kimberly Harvey wrote:
> I have installed the django into the linux-Debian on my machine. I
> ran the linux program, and a black screen pops up asking for the root
> password. I did that, then the next thing it shows is the Debian:~#
>
> What does that mean? I
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 05:13:45 + (UTC)
T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Any music player can play audio file, but by "audio note player", I
> mean/ hope that the player "knows" the audio notes. Let me explain
> with example,
>
> Take this as an example,
>
> Synaptics' TouchPads Support MultiTouch
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:34:16 +0100
Arturo Gutierrez wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Trying to install Oracle 9.2.0.4 (64 bits) on Debian x85_64 , to
> avoid some install problems is necesary to set
> the variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19
>
> However when I set this variable on my bash shell, any command fai
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:09:05 +0200
John Kapnogiannis wrote:
> Hello. I am using a mix of testing and unstable with kde. The update
> notifier always shows a wrong counter. If there are
> no updates it shows 2. Else if the number of updates is n it shows
> n+2. This gets annoying cause it pops up
I took a moment this morning to compare the differences between the
two packages mentioned thus far in this thread, gnome-core and
gnome-session.
gnome-core contains 524 packages
gnome-session contains 368 packages
There is a 367MB difference between the installed sizes of gnome-core
and gnome-
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:05:20 + (UTC)
Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:03:18 -0500, Slicky Johnson wrote:
>
> > I've started getting problems with Squeeze and gnome auto-mounting
> > any external usb drives. I get the notification window which
> > contain
I've started getting problems with Squeeze and gnome auto-mounting any
external usb drives. I get the notification window which contains...
Unable to mount Thumb
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:10:07 -0500
Drew Engelbrecht wrote:
> I've noticed some abandoned configuration files have been left lying
> around my harddrive, which by their existence have a (sometimes
> negative) effect on my upgraded system. They were installed by
> packages in lenny, but would not b
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:34:59 -0800 (PST)
S Mathias wrote:
> I just can't google for it:
>
> I'm searching for a "bash" "one liner" (awk, perl, or anything) for
> this:
>
> there are text files, in several directories:
>
> mkdir one
> mkdir two
> mkdir three
>
> echo "word1 word2 word3" > on
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:01:19 -0700
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> Folk,
>
> "Clock Format" is set to %R, which according to strftime.man
> specifies a 24 hour format.
>
> After chronyc settime 16:50 the clock displays 4:50.
>
> Am I misusing chronyc? Is the digital clock in LXDE unable
> to di
Is it safe to remove these from Squeeze?
$ deborphan
mktemp
diff
$ aptitude why diff
Unable to find a reason to install diff.
aptitude why mktemp
Unable to find a reason to install mktemp.
# aptitude purge diff mktemp
The following packages will be REMOVED:
diff{p} mktemp{p}
0 packages u
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:23:16 +
Lisi wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 December 2010 14:27:38 John Hasler wrote:
> > Lisi writes:
> > > It is, however, easier if the names are in some easily remembered
> > > progression (e.g. Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty etc.) than if they are
> > > random (Woody, Sarge, Et
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:26:07 +0330
Nima Azarbayjany wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today I installed Debian Squeeze on an entirely encrypted LVM
> partition as proposed by the Installer (beta2). After several hours
> of initializing my disk it finally installed and when I booted into
> the new system I s
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:38:35 -0800
Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> Hi, everyone --
>
> In the near future I need to change the network setup for my desktop
> squeeze workstation so that it uses a wireless internet connection
> (it's using the ethernet spigot right now). Can anyone suggest a
> wireless
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On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:16:11 +0800
gulfstream wrote:
> Hello everybody!
>
> I want to execute some script file in usb storage media with fat32
> format, but I can not set execute permission to them with "chown +x".
> What shall I do?
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> gulfstream
>
Who's the owner if the
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:32:42 -0500 (EST)
Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I tried taking a friend's machine from lenny to squeeze and it turned
> into a disaster. As a consequence of the attempt his entire package
> update and repair systems are broken. apt-get -f install can't fix
> anything and dpkg --
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