Re: What has happened to proof reading? (was ... Re: root user)

On 09/05/13 at 02:31am, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 03:45:49PM -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > > > A top poster is surely not one to talk about grammar :P > > What's worse a top poster who doesn't trim or a bottom poster who > doesn'

Re: no soundcards found...

On 09/03/13 at 08:58pm, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 08:14:24PM -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > Done, no effect. Output of all commands remains the same. > > Ok. I had another look at your original message, and notice you seem > to be doing all this as

Re: no soundcards found...

On 09/03/13 at 02:46pm, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 03:31:11PM -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > Having some issue getting sound working on a box, thought I'd reach out to > > the list. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious (: > > > &

Re: What has happened to proof reading? (was ... Re: root user)

On 09/03/13 at 10:40pm, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 03 September 2013 20:45:49 William Hopkins wrote: > > A top poster is surely not one to talk about grammar :P > > He didn't talk about grammar. He quoted someone else and made a joke about > tea. > You've

Re: What has happened to proof reading? (was ... Re: root user)

On 09/03/13 at 10:02am, Verde Denim wrote: > On Sep 3, 2013 9:00 AM, "Chris Bannister" > wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:53:25AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 21:27 +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 05:40:22AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:

Re: strange bash behavior

On 09/03/13 at 03:45pm, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Stephen Powell writes: > > > > Interesting. If "break" appears out of context, you should get > > an error message something like: > > > >bash: break: only meaningful in a 'for', 'while', or 'until' loop > > > > You didn't get an error message, so

Re: strange bash behavior

On 09/02/13 at 08:29am, David Guntner wrote: > Darac Marjal grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:06:17AM -0700, David Guntner wrote: > >> Matej Kosik grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > >> > >> What do you mean by "appears in a subshell?" > > > > From "man 1 bash": > > (list) l

no soundcards found...

Hi all, Having some issue getting sound working on a box, thought I'd reach out to the list. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious (: System is up to date, but has no sound. Info follows.. * Symptoms: $ aplay -l aplay: device_list:235: no soundcards found... $ aplay -L null Discard all

Re: Debian Testing VMWare-Tools Bad Variable Name

On 07/22/13 at 08:23am, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > 2013/7/22 emmanuel segura > > >> 2013/7/21 William Hopkins > > >>> On 07/21/13 at 04:09pm, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > >>> > In the case of Debian 7.1.0 the vmware

Re: libGL.so.1 and nvidia drivers

On 07/16/13 at 09:13pm, Brad Alexander wrote: > I'm using the nvidia drivers from the repos on a sid machine. They were > just upgraded to the long-term 319.32-1 from the repos. However, I have > cisco's anyconnect, and when I launch it, I get > > $ /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpnui > /opt/cisco/any

Re: VLC commandline problems in Wheezy

On 07/20/13 at 02:46pm, Intense Red wrote: >I have a Wheezy (with the deb-multimedia.org repository) computer running > a > KDE desktop as a HTPC. I use VLC to watch videos. > >If I run KDE's default VLC invocation, "/usr/bin/vlc VideoFileName.ext", > VLC will run fine, popping up in a

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

On 07/20/13 at 09:55pm, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Anyway I was trying to be the possibly least verbose I could. Whoever told you this was a good idea was lying. Be more verbose. > Since I need to do some screen capture based on ffmpeg I need to know the > pixel coordinates of the a rectangle

Re: Monitor network download speed

On 07/20/13 at 08:59am, Joe Riel wrote: > Any recommendations for a graphical tool to monitor, real-time, > the download network speed. My connection to work frequently > gets really slow, in which case I need to disconnect and reconnect. > I currently use the gnome network monitor tool, however,

Re: Grub 2.00 in testing?

On 07/20/13 at 08:43pm, Carl Johnson wrote: > Does anybody know what is going on with grub in testing? I have been > waiting for 2.00, but it seems to be stuck at 1.99. Grub-common at > http://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub-common shows that it is at > 1.99-27+deb7u1, but the source files show 2

Re: Gnome doesn't save brightness setting

On 07/21/13 at 11:02am, Amandeep Singh wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Debian wheezy on my lenovo t430 laptop. And each time I start my > laptop, it starts in full brightness mode, and each time I have to reduce > it. I am tired of doing this. Does anyone know any solution. Is this a > known bug, or a

Re: Debian Testing VMWare-Tools Bad Variable Name

On 07/21/13 at 04:09pm, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > In the case of Debian 7.1.0 the vmware tools installed without any problems. > > Unfortunately, this was not the case with Debian Testing. the tools > installed without any problems, but when the installer ran > /usr/bin/ware/vmware.config.tools.

Re: unable to mount a vfat filesystem.

On 07/18/13 at 01:14pm, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 18/07/13 11:48, atar wrote: > > > > Note: it's worth to note here that I'm using at the Live version of > > Debian from the Debian Live Project. > > > > No, you're not: > User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.15 (Win32) > > That was remarkably unfrien

Re: Headless pulseaudio sound server

On 11/13/11 at 06:59am, Carlo Borelli wrote: > Hello guys, latest updates on pulseaudio made me useless my headless sound > server based on pulseaudio. > This the message the server give me: > > dbradders@Casa:~$ pulseaudio -D > E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. > dbradders@Casa:~$ >

Re: Why do I have wpasupplicant installed if I don't have a wifi interface?

On 11/14/11 at 10:22am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 03:43 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Can anybody tell me why I have wpasupplicant installed, even though I > > don't have a wifi interface on this machine? > > > > The machine has a single 10/100 twisted pair ethernet interface w

Re: Multiple Network Gateways

On 07/15/11 at 04:00pm, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to setup a simple network detailed in the below schema. > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > >,===. eth0 ,---. > || internet || <-> | reyiz |

Re: Root passwd not accepted

On 07/13/11 at 08:32pm, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:18 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > > On 07/13/11 at 02:35pm, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:21:17 -0600, Lloyd Rice wrote: > >> > >> > I'm new at this. Sorry. But I think this

Re: Root passwd not accepted

On 07/13/11 at 02:35pm, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:21:17 -0600, Lloyd Rice wrote: > > > I'm new at this. Sorry. But I think this is a real bug. > > > > Debian Release 6.0.2.1 > > Architecture: amd64 > > > > I have done a number of installs with both CD and DVD images on two > > dif

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

On 07/11/11 at 04:47pm, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 06:48:28AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Perhaps you one day will switch from an integrated graphics to a > > graphics card, since your needs might change. Care about slots for the > > future, don't waste time with thinking a

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

On 07/11/11 at 01:24pm, Camaleón wrote: > Marketing and I follow different ways... I still look for a motherbaord > that provides RS-232, LPT and Floppy "by default" O:-) Just a +1 for RS-232 support. Until desktops start coming with out-of-band management (iLO, etc.) serial is an absolute requir

Re: vimdiff

On 07/12/11 at 03:28pm, shawn wilson wrote: > could someone please tell me how i'm messing up? i know they didn't > remove vimdiff from debian stable: > > > \h:\w\$ vimdiff > This Vim was not compiled with the diff feature. > \h:\w\$ apt-get install vimdiff > Reading package lists... Done > Build

Re: Root passwd not accepted

On 07/12/11 at 01:21pm, Lloyd Rice wrote: > I'm new at this. Sorry. But I think this is a real bug. > > Debian Release 6.0.2.1 > Architecture: amd64 > > I have done a number of installs with both CD and DVD images on two different > machines. I have tried a number of different combinations of op

Re: IPv6 and DNS

On 07/12/11 at 08:50pm, Arno Schuring wrote: > Laurence Hurst (l.a.hu...@lboro.ac.uk on 2011-07-12 11:54 +0100): > > Hi folks, > > > > I notice a couple of other IPv6 related questions on this list so I > > hope this isn't too far of topic... > [..] > > > > I am curious, if I wanted to translate

Re: Complex IPv6 setup

On 07/12/11 at 09:42am, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 06:05:16PM -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > >needed so default gateway is on the SLAAC NIC. The real question > >is why are you concerned with 'randomizing' your IP? The prefix is > >what people w

Re: Apt says it's okay to remove chromium, but I use it

On 07/10/11 at 12:44am, George Standish wrote: > On 10/07/11 12:40 AM, William Hopkins wrote: > > >`apt-get install chromium` will mark it as manually installed. > > On squeeze: chromium - transitional dummy package for chromium-bsu > > On wheezy onwards, I take it

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

On 07/12/11 at 12:33pm, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 12/07/11 09:42, William Hopkins wrote: > > On 07/10/11 at 07:20am, Randy Kramer wrote: > >> On Saturday 09 July 2011 10:22:01 pm William Hopkins wrote: > >>> On 07/09/11 at 05:14pm, Randy Kramer wrote: > > >

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

On 07/10/11 at 07:20am, Randy Kramer wrote: > On Saturday 09 July 2011 10:22:01 pm William Hopkins wrote: > > On 07/09/11 at 05:14pm, Randy Kramer wrote: > > > I just saw another question about IPv4 and NAT and IPv6, and that > > > prompts this question: > > >

Re: Complex IPv6 setup (was: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?)

On 07/10/11 at 01:42pm, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 09:47:59PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > >Liam writes: > >>The remote side will know your actual IP address... > >One of the 2^64 at your disposal. > [...] > With IPv6 all my internal hosts have for now fixed external IPv6 > addr

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

On 07/11/11 at 03:47pm, shawn wilson wrote: > On Jul 11, 2011 3:30 PM, "William Hopkins" wrote: > > > > > Don't get me started on not being able to find small HDDs anymore :P > > > > I've got some 40 meg hdd's on my shelf (think they

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

On 07/11/11 at 03:20pm, Chris Brennan wrote: > On 7/11/2011 2:55 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > > On 07/10/11 at 03:09pm, mark wrote: > > I think the last time I was annoyed about such a change was when > > you couldn't get floppy drives anymore.. > > > >

Re: Debian Policy questions

On 07/11/11 at 11:52am, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:43:45 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > > Listers, looking for a little community input: > > > > What is the best way to get answers on Debian policy questions? I have > > had some issues I'

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

On 07/10/11 at 03:09pm, mark wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for components for a new PC to install debian on. I've > been looking at motherboards (MSI & Gigabyte) and it seems that the > IDE interface no longer exists. Is no more IDE interface the new > direction for PCs so that I will have to

Re: Debian Policy questions

On 07/11/11 at 07:19am, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-07-11 04:43 +0200, William Hopkins wrote: > > > If you're curious, the issue I've been having is regarding package > > dependencies. Some packages seem to have extraneous dependencies outside of > > what i

Re: Debian Policy questions

On 07/10/11 at 10:53pm, shawn wilson wrote: > how about 'apt-cache policy ' Er, I think this shows your current settings for version preference/pinning. I was referring to policy in terms of the debian maintainer policy, uploader policy, etc. -- Liam signature.asc Description: Digital signatur

Debian Policy questions

Listers, looking for a little community input: What is the best way to get answers on Debian policy questions? I have had some issues I'd like to get a policy answer on or possibly provide input (aka, my $0.02) for. If you're curious, the issue I've been having is regarding package dependencies.

Re: Apt says it's okay to remove chromium, but I use it

On 07/10/11 at 12:10am, John Mollman wrote: [...] > So when I run "apt-get autoremove" it removes chromium (or > chromium-browser, I think they changed the name of the package in > wheezy, possibly). I use that as my browser, so I don't know why apt > would be telling me. Is there a way I can lock

Re: gnome-mplayer does not play videos in the correct aspect ratio

On 07/09/11 at 11:32pm, Eden wrote: > When I try to watch a video it does not cover the entire screen. Sometimes > it is a small box playing in the center when it is full screen other times > there are large chunks of black space on both sides of the monitor. Try the files directly with mplayer on

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

On 07/09/11 at 09:47pm, John Hasler wrote: > Liam writes: > > The remote side will know your actual IP address... > > One of the 2^64 at your disposal. Or more. The IETF recommendation is, generally, a /48 (so you can have subnets. you can subnet below /64 but then SLAAC won't work). Also, chang

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

On 07/09/11 at 05:14pm, Randy Kramer wrote: > I just saw another question about IPv4 and NAT and IPv6, and that > prompts this question: > > When I switch to IPv6, will I lose the ability to keep my computers > behind a NAT gateway? I've seen some talk about implementing address translation in

Re: Two Sound Cards, I hope.

On 07/08/11 at 11:22pm, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a Dell Optiplex with the on-board sound chip set > which works fine but I wanted to also use an AWE64 Gold as a > second sound device. The AWE64 stole the show when I plugged it > in to the mother board and the on-board sound device > d

Re: HTML messages are obsolete, especially for mailing lists

On 07/09/11 at 02:12am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > From: lee > Was: Subject: Re: alternative to kaffeine? > Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:29:46 +0200 > >html messages are obsolete > > Full ACK, with one exception, it can be helpful for code, to avoid a > wrap. I don't think that's a good exception; reform

Re: Kernel Config file for Debian Squeeze Install Disc

On 07/08/11 at 02:26pm, Tech Geek wrote: > > It is in the boot directory of the linux-image package, which is on the > > first disk or in the packages section at www.debian.org. > > So, from what you just said, it means that both the kernels, one that > runs from the install disc and the one that

Re: Looking for an alternative to mysql

On 07/08/11 at 04:42pm, D G Teed wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > On 07/08/2011 12:57 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 12:50:36PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > >> Is postgresql more reliable then mysql > > > > > > Yes, without a shadow of doubt.

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

On 07/07/11 at 09:58pm, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:42:57 -0400 > William Hopkins wrote: > > First problem I found - still had an nvidia modules installed, and didn't > realize it. so I purged nvidia* and rebooted. I saw it reported you were using an

Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

On 07/07/11 at 09:38pm, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > howdy, > > got a new motherboard and I'm trying to figure out how to get reasonable X > working. > using vesa and something very low resolution right now. > > I tried googling on that error symbol and literally got nothing back. > > Here's the

Re: get package name from file name

On 07/07/11 at 09:43pm, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 13:39 +0100, kuLa wrote: > > On 07/07/11 13:17, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > > As always there are multiple to do this :) > > > > > > * dpkg -S /path/to/file > > > * apt-file search /path/to/file > > > * dlocate -

Re: How do I start up services in Fvwm without killing Debian-created configuration

On 07/07/11 at 06:11pm, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:53 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > > > On 07/07/11 at 05:35pm, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > > > Here's my problem: I generally run GNOME but want to run Fvwm on > > occasion. > > > > &

Re: How do I start up services in Fvwm without killing Debian-created configuration

On 07/07/11 at 05:35pm, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > Here's my problem: I generally run GNOME but want to run Fvwm on occasion. > > In Debian, the Fvwm configuration is auto-generated. If I create my > own config file for Fvwm, all the menus generated by Debian go away. > > I want to start some serv

Re: Restarting network

On 07/07/11 at 11:26am, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 07/07/2011 10:42 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > Having made some config changes to my network, I did: > > > > root@tony-lx:/home/tony# /etc/init.d/networking restart > > > > That results in: > > > > Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprec

Re: Set up headless Bubba Two for Bind9 nameserver

On 07/07/11 at 05:20pm, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:25:07 -0400 keltezéssel William Hopkins azt írta: > > > On 07/06/11 at 08:08pm, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have had setup my Bubba headless PC Box following these steps: > >&

Re: Set up headless Bubba Two for Bind9 nameserver

On 07/07/11 at 12:32pm, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Have you considered DNSmasq? It works as a caching DNS server and DHCP > server. I use it from my OpenWRT router and it is in Debian as well. > Configuration is rather easy. > I take it you missed the thread on this subject earlier in the week :P

Re: Restarting network

On 07/07/11 at 03:42pm, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Having made some config changes to my network, I did: > > root@tony-lx:/home/tony# /etc/init.d/networking restart > > That results in: > > Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may > not enable again some interfaces ...

Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7

On 07/07/11 at 05:17pm, Aniruddha wrote: > I wonder if anyone has experience with installing Debian on HP > ProLiant DL120 G7. Does it work out-of-the-box? Or are there special > drivers necessary to get these working? Officially only Red Hat and > Suse are supported although HP does have an Debian

Re: OT: quoting variable names in shell scripts

On 07/06/11 at 11:22pm, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Consider the following shell script > > $cat manual_listing.sh > >

Re: Powering off or resetting USB peripherals

On 07/06/11 at 09:27pm, Mark Kamichoff wrote: > Is there some alternate way of cutting the power to a USB device > temporarily in order to reset it? Maybe some userland application that > I'm not aware of? The drivers for a given device are responsible for initializing that device, so rmmod && mo

Re: Youtube flash not working

On 07/06/11 at 09:51pm, Randy Kramer wrote: > On Wednesday 06 July 2011 09:17:52 pm Frank McCormick wrote: > > On 06/07/11 09:05 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > Is anyone else heen experiencing Flash problems on Youtube? > > > It affects both Chrome and Firefox - but they seem to be able to > > >

Re: Youtube flash not working

On 07/06/11 at 09:05pm, Frank McCormick wrote: > > Is anyone else hee experiencing Flash problems on Youtube? > It affects both Chrome and Firefox - but they seem to be able to > play Flash videos on other sites. > No issues here. -- Liam signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: mplayer and fvwm-crystal

On 07/06/11 at 08:43pm, lee wrote: > William Hopkins writes: > > > On 07/06/11 at 12:03pm, lee wrote: > >> William Hopkins writes: > >> Are you suggesting that the default for mplayers windows is not to have > >> decorations? > > > > I haven&#

Re: Set up headless Bubba Two for Bind9 nameserver

On 07/06/11 at 08:08pm, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I have had setup my Bubba headless PC Box following these steps: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=66329&p=380805#p380805 > > Now I'm trying to setup bind9 on my bubba server, but without any success. > > What I did: > * Installing

Re: mplayer and fvwm-crystal

On 07/06/11 at 12:03pm, lee wrote: > William Hopkins writes: > > > On 07/04/11 at 10:45pm, lee wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> what might be the reason for mplayer to come up without window > >> decorations on fvwm-crystal? > > > > mplayer

Re: OT: Camale�n

On 07/05/11 at 01:46pm, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:14:55PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 04 iul 11, 21:58:20, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 06:15:59PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > > > > > > > > Thank you, Robert. > > > > > > Aw shucks, 'twarnt

Re: netstat performance

On 07/05/11 at 11:18pm, Brian wrote: > On Tue 05 Jul 2011 at 22:09:38 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > [snip recursive explanation] > > It was a really good explanation, wasn't it? > > > > Thanks a lot for this explanation, DNS is still a bit like dark magic to > > me :) > > I suspect you ma

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

On 07/05/11 at 10:11pm, Adrian Levi wrote: > On 5 July 2011 21:08, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > > > Just a thought: have you tried disabling setiathome?  (And also, did > > you have the same setiathome version running on the Ubuntu that didn't > > freeze?) > > Seti is a recent addition to that mach

Re: mplayer and fvwm-crystal

On 07/04/11 at 10:45pm, lee wrote: > Hi, > > what might be the reason for mplayer to come up without window > decorations on fvwm-crystal? I've searched through the configuration > files of fvwm2 and didn't find an entry about it. Is this a default or > is it something in my settings? Or is it

Re: kvm

On 07/03/11 at 08:08pm, Khosrow Hassani wrote: > Hi, > I am running kvm 0.12.5 from Squeeze. the problem I am having is that kvm > -hda disk1.img -hdb disk2.img doesn't give me 2 drives in my Windows xp > inside kvm, even when I run it as root. only the first disk where windows is > installed shows

Re: kvm

On 07/04/11 at 02:47pm, David Sastre wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 08:08:50PM -0700, Khosrow Hassani wrote: > > Hi, > > I am running kvm 0.12.5 from Squeeze. the problem I am having is that kvm > > -hda > > disk1.img -hdb disk2.img doesn't give me 2 drives in my Windows xp inside > > kvm, >

Re: netstat performance

On 07/05/11 at 10:09pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 02 iul 11, 12:23:39, William Hopkins wrote: > > On 07/02/11 at 02:06pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Sb, 02 iul 11, 09:35:35, Erwan David wrote: > > > > > > > > That's what I do : I ha

Re: Set up headless Bubba Two for firewall/gateway

On 07/05/11 at 08:02pm, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Bubba Two headless PC box and on it a > Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze operating system. I bought this hardware > preinstalled with Debian GNU/Linux Etch. > > So far one can't to upgrade it to Debian Squeeze using the

Re: Howto install a debugging kernel in debian?

On 07/05/11 at 12:07pm, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hello folks, > > I got the problem, that I need to install a kernel which creates debugger > informations in dmesg. [...] > > For those, who are interested in the kernel bug, take a look here: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22052 >

Re: printing image full page

On 07/05/11 at 07:18am, Juan Sierra Pons wrote: > > I'm looking for a script-able way to print any arbitrary image onto a > > full printer page (letter, A4, etc). > > > > All the image viewing tools that I tried didn't give me such feature, and > > so far the only solution I have is, , , doing it i

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

On 07/04/11 at 04:55pm, Nicolas Bercher wrote: > On 04/07/2011 13:25, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >Wow, this really is perfect! > >I did what you told me and it works like a charm :-) > > Thank you! > Indeed, it's a great pleasure for me to share this script! When I > wrote it, I was particularly proud

Re: OT: Camaleón

On 07/03/11 at 02:46pm, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:26:52 +, T o n g wrote: > > > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:36:14 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > >> you're best sticking with Camaleón if possible - she does run Gnome and > >> . . . > > > > I don't know western names well and I

Re: diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed

On 07/01/11 at 08:50pm, alberto fuentes wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:03 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > > > On 07/01/11 at 09:44am, alberto fuentes wrote: > > > This would be handy to checkout messed up systems to be able to tell > > apart > > > easily wh

Re: netstat performance

On 07/02/11 at 02:06pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 02 iul 11, 09:35:35, Erwan David wrote: > > > > That's what I do : I have unbound locally for recursive, and it caches > > for the local network + bind for authoritative. > > Not sure what "recursive" means [...] Recursive queries are what a

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

On 07/01/11 at 03:20pm, T Elcor wrote: > --- On Fri, 7/1/11, William Hopkins wrote: > > > Try the same command from a terminal window, and see what > > errors you get. > > luser@testbox:~$ kdesu konqueror > bash: kdesu: command not found > luser@testbox:~$ whereis

Re: Copying a bootable CD

On 07/02/11 at 12:54pm, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 02/07/11 07:20, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 23:49:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >> conv=notrunc means "do not truncate the output file" according to the > >> manpage, but I have no ideea what it's good for, but doesn't sound li

Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze

On 07/02/11 at 01:47am, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I'm in the middle of the upgrade from lenny to squeeze. I have a > partially working system. I've been following the instruction ins the > release notes, http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ > ch-upgrading.en.html and I've g

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

On 07/01/11 at 02:17pm, T Elcor wrote: > When I do Alt+F2, then type "kdesu konqueror" (without quotes) and then try > to press nothing happens, pressing doesn't seem to have any > effect. Have you tried it yourself? Try the same command from a terminal window, and see what errors you get. --

Re: netstat performance

On 07/02/11 at 12:01am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 29 iun 11, 20:08:16, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 12:22:26 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > > > > For a good time, 'apt-get install bind' :-) > > > > For an even better time (and to escape the monoculture) > > > >apt-get install

Re: diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed

On 07/01/11 at 09:44am, alberto fuentes wrote: > This would be handy to checkout messed up systems to be able to tell apart > easily whats has been touched. > > Is there already something that makes this? comparing dpkg --get-selections before and after is an easy way to see what new packages hav

Re: audio through HDMI on a IDT 92HD71B sound card

On 06/30/11 at 09:58am, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a Dell Latitude E6400 laptop, which has a Displayport. I tried to > connect the laptop with a Sony TV with a HDMI port. So I bought a > Displayport-HDMI converter from Dell. When I play a movie using mplayer, > the video is OK on TV

Re: audio through HDMI on a IDT 92HD71B sound card

On 06/30/11 at 09:58am, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a Dell Latitude E6400 laptop, which has a Displayport. I tried to > connect the laptop with a Sony TV with a HDMI port. So I bought a > Displayport-HDMI converter from Dell. When I play a movie using mplayer, > the video is OK on TV

Re: Headless Install Debian Squeeze

On 06/29/11 at 10:04pm, Martin McCormick wrote: > It used to be that one got the installation program to > run through a serial port by a command like > > linux console=ttySx,9600n8p > > I downloaded the new Debian 6 iso image from Debian.org > and am trying to install it over a seria

Re: netstat performance

On 06/29/11 at 08:44pm, Brian wrote: > On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 15:27:53 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > > Monoculture is one thing, but that is not a comparable product. Unbound is > > for > > recursive-only, so you can't have your own zone. > > Within the c

Re: netstat performance

On 06/29/11 at 08:08pm, Brian wrote: > On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 12:22:26 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > > For a good time, 'apt-get install bind' :-) > > For an even better time (and to escape the monoculture) > >apt-get install unbound Monoculture is one thing, but that is not a comparable p

Re: netstat performance

On 06/29/11 at 10:15am, ChadDavis wrote: > I notice that the following two invocations of netstat have > drastically different execution times: > > netstat > > netstat -n > > > When you just use numerical addresses, it executes almost instantly, > but with the domain names and whatever you call

Re: LVM Recovery

On 06/28/11 at 07:36pm, w...@mgssub.com wrote: > I had a drive crash and it had a little bit of a LVM volume on it. The > drive that contains most of it still survives. > > Can anyone quickly outline what to do to get the survivor attached to > LVM and > working again? LVM has completely forgotte

Re: nas with debian on pendrive

On 06/28/11 at 07:35pm, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks :-) > > I realized a nas with debian6 on a pendrive > > (http://fuckaround.org/nuvola/?p=59) > > My root dir is ext2 file system (mounted with noatime option). > > I reduced writing logs on this pendrive (decreasing samba verbose, openvpn, >

Re: help with virtualbox

On 06/28/11 at 08:58pm, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:33:47 -0400 > William Hopkins wrote: > > > On 06/28/11 at 03:16pm, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: > > > Hi. > > > Since I'm blind, I can't use the graphical interface with > > > virtual

Re: I have big problem choose corect distribution Debian

On 06/28/11 at 10:37pm, Jochen Schulz wrote: > lee: > > Jochen Schulz writes: > > > >> Depending on what you want to use the machine for, you may be better > >> off using something like Damn Small Linux or even OpenWrt. When using > >> Debian, you will have to tweak the system quite a bit to ensu

Re: Copying a bootable CD

On 06/28/11 at 08:39am, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a bootable live CD of an out-dated version of a > specialized distribution of Debian called Vinux. I never saved > the ISO image and I now want to copy from the CDRW it is on to a > CDR to use as a rescue disk on systems that can not read CDR

Re: help with virtualbox

On 06/28/11 at 03:16pm, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: > Hi. > Since I'm blind, I can't use the graphical interface with virtualbox. > Can you help me to find a tutorial for me about how I do with the vboxmanage > command? I found a few introductory tutorials by googling 'creating VMs with vboxmana

Re: How to configure static route?

On 06/28/11 at 11:43am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 26 iun 11, 10:53:21, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > $ apt-cache show ifupdown-extra > ... >- setup default static routes for interfaces. > IMVHO the static routes part should be moved to ifupdown. How about a > 'whishlist' bug? Seconded.

Re: Running Squeeze on a 2 GB usb stick?

On 06/27/11 at 09:17pm, Mark wrote: > Hi - I have a work laptop with Windows and since it tracks basically > everything I do, I'd like to install Squeeze to a 2 GB usb stick I have > laying around so I can boot to that instead of the internal hdd for personal > use. I plan on doing the Expert Inst

Re: Tagging the music using cddb

On 06/25/11 at 04:36pm, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:24:26 + (UTC) > T o n g wrote: > > Hello T, > > > tag the converted ogg music myself *using cddb*. Anybody has done that > > before? > > Yes, but almost invariably, I didn't like what I got from there; > Spelling mistakes,

Re: X on a virtual server

On 06/27/11 at 12:47am, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:41 PM, William Hopkins > wrote: > > On 06/26/11 at 11:29pm, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:25 PM, William Hopkins > >> wrote: > >> > On 06/26/11 at

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