Re: debian-advocacy?

Curt : > > Given the number of retarded posts we've seen in the last couple of > weeks, you might think things would be cooled off by now, but no. This's DU. This sort of thing is expected, even welcomed. People expressing passionate opinions wrt their choice of software? Great! Consider th

Re: debian-advocacy?

Anders Wegge Keller : > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:33:55 +0100 > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > This to one of our best and most measured contributors. It's enough to > > make one weep. > > He could have been the pope. His attitude is part of the problem, not the I didn't think that at all. I do thi

Re: For Help!

Aijun Xuan : > ---485831647-466411508-1354984718=:50704 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hello, Debian: > > First of all, I would like appreciate what Debian had offered to > us! I would thank GUN very much! > > I am a new user. I just set up Debian in my desktop computer.

Re: Help needed

BALAJI :) : > > I am using Debian Lenny, kernel version: 2.6.26-1-686. I am very > new to linux. Can you please let me know the steps for backing up > my linux PC (maybe to a CD) and later restoring from it when > required. Also let me know if I can install any Open source S/W > that can d

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

Jerome BENOIT : > On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: > > * amd64 > > * armel > > * kfreebsd-i386 > >

Re: Postfix SASL SMTP AUTH help, please. [re-post from comp.mail.misc]

s. keeling : > [I asked this in cmm, but see no help there yet. I'm trying to get this: > > > http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/smtp_auth_mailservers.html > > working on Debian Lenny.] Camaleon, Darac, Osamu, Bob, thanks. All good suggesti

Postfix SASL SMTP AUTH help, please. [re-post from comp.mail.misc]

[I asked this in cmm, but see no help there yet. I'm trying to get this: http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/smtp_auth_mailservers.html working on Debian Lenny.] Background: I run fetchmail in a script wrapper called by m

Re: how to generate pi in c

ow...@netptc.net : > > GIYF Who? > http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/classes/soft_dev/C_simple_ex.html (0) phreaque /home/keeling_ time pi 20 # of trials= 20 , estimate of pi is 3.14158 real4m41.812s user4m29.736s sys 0m0.055s Thanks. Fun to play with. Around 2 bil

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

Bob Proulx : > Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: > > I have a minimal Debian installation ... > > You might be interested in reading through a discussion that is > happening right now on debian-devel: > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/10/threads.html#00310 > >

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

Robert Holtzman : > > Wicd from the repos. Much more informative than nm. I can attest to that. I found wicd difficult to turn off the other day (until I looked for /etc/default/wicd). Then again, Win* guy next door, now running linux, took to nm with no problem, way before I knew anything abo

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

Lisi : > > I think I'll give it one more try using your link and any tips > other people have given me by then, and if I still can't do it I'll > just install normally. No offense meant, but wrong attitude. I've been saying this since ca. '97: try again. The more installs you try, the more y

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

Lisi : > > Thanks, Camaleón. I get nervous when the computer I am working on does not > belong to me!! Prudent thinking. Especially when you're logged in as root (walking around with lit sticks of dynamite in each hand). Plan. Research. Backups! Try plan on a disposable sandbox. Rinse,

Re: how to umount a usb flash drive through cli as a normal user

Jason Heeris : > On 11 October 2010 23:52, vishnu vardhan > wrote: > > > > [a] start mc and search for jet under /dev/disk/by-id folder and note down > > the name, for e.g. sdb1 > > This is a bit tangential, but do you know about the "pmount-hal" > [...] > works out some other mount flags fo

Re: X & radeon & flash & youtube problem

Richard Hector : > > I recently caved and installed flashplugin-nonfree on my squeeze system > (once the 64-bit player was re-released). > > However, when I watch some (not all) youtube videos, the screens (2) > first go black, then (possibly triggered by switching to a text > console), get

Re: A simple GUI volume control tool for fluxbox

Nuno Magalhães : > > If you just want volume control, i use gkrellm's volume plugin. Does That's excellent! Thanks! -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rf

Re: cpufreq not loaded in amd64?

s. keeling : > Damon L. Chesser : > > > > error. My bios had "Cool and Quite" turned off. I did not catch that, > > I was looking for some other bios settings. I really am not a big fan > > Makes me wanna reboot and hunt around for Cool and Quiet

Re: Staples "Relay (tm)" 4 Gb USB sticks - slow or normal (lenny)?

Klistvud : > Dne, 01. 10. 2010 10:35:09 je Camaleón napisal(a): > > On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:15:42 +, s. keeling wrote: > > [snip] > > To avoid wild guesses, you could test your USB key on another machine, > monitoring its average read/write speed there; that way,

Re: Staples "Relay (tm)" 4 Gb USB sticks - slow or normal (lenny)?

Camaleón : > On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:15:42 +0000, s. keeling wrote: > > > > Is it just that usb's slow, or is the box doing it wrong? Is it my > > preference for ext2? I've tried w both usb hubs and directly into > > Did you run any read/write speed test

Re: cpufreq not loaded in amd64?

Damon L. Chesser : > > error. My bios had "Cool and Quite" turned off. I did not catch that, > I was looking for some other bios settings. I really am not a big fan Makes me wanna reboot and hunt around for Cool and Quiet. I usually have this on 525 MHz using "ondemand" governor. Damned ne

Staples "Relay (tm)" 4 Gb USB sticks - slow or normal (lenny)?

I keep one copy of my latest backup on usb sticks that I keep in my pack. Yesterday, I recreated it. It's an ext2 ptn: /dev/sdb1 on /media/usb0 type ext2 (rw,noexec,nodev,sync,noatime) That happens when I plug it in (udev?). drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2009-05-20 22:55 /media/sdb1/ I pl

Re: cpufreq not loaded in amd64?

Damon L. Chesser : > For some reason, I don't have cpufreq scaling enabled: Well that's pretty damned sad. :-P I really don't get cpufreq* myself. Methinks it's far too young software. > da...@dam-main:~$ sudo powernowd -d > PowerNow Daemon v1.00, (c) 2003-2008 John Clemens > /sys/devices/

Re: I don't understand why bug reporting bothers you

T o n g : > On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:20:00 +0000, s. keeling wrote: > > > Damn, you're prolific. How anyone can come up with as many problems to > > post about as you do, I'll never understand. Sorry, that was unkind. It was just the impression I felt at the

Re: .xsession kills X server with sqeeze/fluxbox

Javier Vasquez : > On 9/5/10, brownh wrote: > > I'm used to using an .xsession file in ~/ > > Me too. I use .xinitrc, and start X from CLI (ssh-agent startx). No [XKG]dm. > >. But I find that when I have sqeeze installed with fluxbox, the > > server crashes if there is an xsession file prese

Re: Can start X once but no more

T o n g : > > Following up with > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/389399 DR. > I have exactly the same symptom: Damn, you're prolific. How anyone can come up with as many problems to post about as you do, I'll never understand. > $ uname -rm > 2.6.33-grml64 x86_64 Tha

Re: What is Recommend CLI Package Manager Tool for Newb?

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. : > > Is there a description or screenshot of it somewhere? Can I easily > engage it from the command-line? I'd like to play with it and see > if it is as useful as the aptitude one. See the -s switch, just like aptitude. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic

Re: Mailing list protocol

Tixy : > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 05:46 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > On 08/26/2010 05:37 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > >> noela...@gmail.com : > > >> > > >>> In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the > > >>> text first and then hit reply, and only the selected section >

Re: Debian updates worth to follow as a normal user

Joe : > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > s. keeling wrote: > >> T o n g : > >> > >>> Where is the recommended place to read about Debian updates > >>> that would affect end users? > >> > >> I think it's about this ti

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

Osamu Aoki : > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:13:26PM +0000, s. keeling wrote: > > T o n g : > > > > > > I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it > > > OK to do so? > > > > Joey Hess wrote a long critique in here a

Re: Debian updates worth to follow as a normal user

T o n g : > > Where is the recommended place to read about Debian updates that would > affect end users? > > For example, the recent massive update on the sid repo side, I know it is I think it's about this time that some jerk pipes up and says production machines serving users should be ru

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

T o n g : > > I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it > OK to do so? I've not read your link. Joey Hess wrote a long critique in here a couple of years ago, saying essentially yes. aptitude (I thimk) logs more of its actions than does apt-get, but other than that,

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

Nick Lidakis : > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:13:08AM +0200, Thomas Amm wrote: > > Am 24.06.2010 20:06, schrieb Nick Lidakis: > > > > > > I figured, these days, getting to a 2d desktop with a 2 year old > > > video card would not cause a machine to lock hard. Although,I am > > > on unstable. You pa

Re: meta-question

Louis Hinman : > I don't see an administrator to address this question to, so please forgive > me > for addressing it to all and sundry: Along with the other excellent advice others have suggested, subscribe to whitel...@lists.debian.org, with all its resulting goodness. -- Any technology d

Re: Transmitting a webcam's flux to the Internet: how?

Merciadri Luca : > > Many cities/special places, etc., have `live' webcams which allow > Internet users to see these places `live.' This is often achieved thanks > to hosting websites, etc. I'm here asking myself how I could, from a > device (not necessarily a traditional computer), send the w

Re: How to enforce use of dhcpcd instead of dhclient in debian/testing?

wzab : > > I have a problem with wireless networking on my laptop (uses iwl3945 > wireless). > When dhclient3 is used to obtain IP address via DHCP, the connection is > unstable. Especially when I move my laptop to another location and switch > to another network, the IP is not obtained at al

Re: setting sensor limits fails

António PT : > 2010/2/1 Nima Azarbayjany > > > > On a recent install of Squeeze I get a message that "setting sensor limits" > > fails. I am wondering whether this can be a threat to the hardware and if > > there are any workarounds for this issue. I am running the amd64 2.6.32 > > kernel from

Re: garbages in man page output

Camaleón : > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:13:43 +, T o n g wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:55:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> Or try by appending "-d" for debugging. > > > > Here's it. What's wrong? > > > > $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man -d xrandr I'm not sure I understand the problem, but in X, tr

Re: setting sensor limits fails

Nima Azarbayjany : > > On a recent install of Squeeze I get a message that "setting sensor limits" > fails. I am wondering whether this can be a threat to the hardware and if Is lm-sensors installed? cpufreqd? powernow_k8 kernel module? > there are any workarounds for this issue. I am run

Re: dealing with grub2?

tv.deb...@googlemail.com : > Liviu Andronic wrote: > > > Could you help to either completely get rid of grub2 or properly > > configuring it (to recognise the other two OSs, Windows and Ubuntu)? > > > > For the first part, I've uninstalled grub-pc and reinstalled > > grub-legacy, I've run update

Re: console resolution

tv.deb...@googlemail.com : > s. keeling wrote: > > > > Isn't it strange that we now need to `update-grub`, when having to run > > "lilo" was such a hardship before? > > > > Grumble, mumble, wtf doesn't OpenBSD ever show up in the grub* boot

Re: console resolution

Jeffrey Cao : > On 2010-01-22, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > > > > I have recently installed Squeeze on my laptop and most things > > seem to work fine right now. > > > > I used to add vga=xxx to the kernel parameters line to adjust the > > console resolution but this is now deprecated as a message p

Re: How to grab music from remote cdrom?

Sthu Deus : > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camale: > > >Export the CD share via samba or nfs and mount it locally into the > >target machine where you are going to run the ripper. And let the > >program doing its work. This is a somewhat annoying problem. You'd think, understanding X Win

Re: Warning: "Illegal" hostnames no longer work

David Baron : > For ever, I was getting a bootup message that by hostname was illegal. After > that, everything, I mean everything, worked with that hostname 100% > > As of the latest upgrades off Sid, the illegal hostname is no longer > accepted > by the system and there is then no hostnam

Re: Gnome [Nautilus] debuggers: please reopen bug 358731

Frank McCormick : > > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:45:53 + (GMT) > "s. keeling" wrote: > > > s. keeling : > > > Frank McCormick : > > > > > > > >How many developers does it take to fix a bug? Apparently > > > >

Re: Gnome [Nautilus] debuggers: please reopen bug 358731

Stephen Powell : > On 2010-01-11 at 21:27:02 -0500, s. keeling wrote: > > I've been running Linux for a long time. I'm pretty sure Linus would > > answer, "Show us your code!" If you've enough energy to complain, > > you've enough to help wit

Re: Gnome [Nautilus] debuggers: please reopen bug 358731

s. keeling : > Frank McCormick : > > > >How many developers does it take to fix a bug? Apparently > > too many. Read through Bug 121113. > > (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121113) You've got to be kidding me. That's what you consider a c

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

Tom H : >  What is your 40... entry? > > >>> Generic chainloader +1 stuff: > > >>  (1a) There is no (hd0,0) in grub2. sda = (hd0,1), etc > > > Ah!  This is a most informative/educational reply, thanks. > > You're welcome. > > > > I've a few leads to track down now: > > >    sed '%s/hda

Re: Gnome [Nautilus] debuggers: please reopen bug 358731

Frank McCormick : > On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:57:26 -0500 (EST) > Stephen Powell wrote: > > > On 2010-01-09 at 16:40:22 -0500, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > Does someone here have the proper permissions to reopen a Gnome > > > bug that was incorrectly marked as dupe? Thanks: > > > > > > https://bugzil

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

Tom H : > >>  What is your 40... entry? > > > Generic chainloader +1 stuff: > > (1a) There is no (hd0,0) in grub2. sda = (hd0,1), etc Ah! This is a most informative/educational reply, thanks. I really am out of the loop I see. I'm beginning to understand what all the bleeding-edge noobs comp

Re: Grub 2

Tixy : > On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 12:33 +, James Allsopp wrote: > > > Problem is, I want to use grub2 as the first thing I'm going to do > > is upgrade to debian testing, which uses this. > > > Is there a reason for not just installing Debian Testing rather than > trying to get Lenny on ther

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

Klistvud : > Dne, 08. 01. 2010 01:32:32 je s. keeling napisal(a): > > > > Thanks. That's looking very tempting at the moment. So far, I've not > > solved it. > > It would not be unwise to switch to Grub 2 (the new Grub that's slowly > becomin

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

Tom H : > > What is your 40... entry? Generic chainloader +1 stuff: # OpenBSD 4.6 on /dev/hda1 title OpenBSD 4.6 root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 > Are you loading the ufs module(s)? Never heard of 'em. Will research, thanks. -- Any te

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

Freeman : > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:30:32AM +0000, s. keeling wrote: > > I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) > > sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the > > first time. I just installed both squ

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

Paul E Condon : > On 20100106_033032, s. keeling wrote: > > > > first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6. > > > > How do I add the latter to testing's grub? /boot/grub/menu.lst > > doesn't exist, and /boot/grub contains

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

Wayne : > s. keeling wrote: > > I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) > > sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the > > first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6. > > >

New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6. How do I add the latter to testing's grub? /boot/grub/menu.lst doesn't exist, and /boot

Re: Removing the indent-string quote marker '>' in emails.

RobertHoltzman : > > On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 11:55:59AM +, Camale=EF=BF=BDn wrote: > > > > Educating them it always better than "shooting" them ;-) > > I dunno, thinning the herd has its merits :-) Trust me, ya gotta be careful with that kind of thinking. There were a lot of people who t

Re: Removing the indent-string quote marker '>' in emails.

John Hasler : > Celejar writes: > > What's wrong with using technical solutions to solve social problems? > > Shooting them is a technical solution. Strangling them would be a > social one. Damn, I love your posts. Sorry, but shooting them is a philosophical problem first ("Should we?"). Th

Re: Removing the indent-string quote marker '>' in emails.

Chris Jones : > On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 02:33:32PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Fri,01.Jan.10, 13:26:59, Chris Jones wrote: > > > I noticed that some e-mails come back to this (and other) mailing lists > > > with the traditional '>' quote markers removed. > > > > [...] > [snip] > More to t

Re: Help Please !

Kwaku Obeng : > > My name is Kwaku Obeng and a Ghanaian by birth. I read about Debian a few > months ago on website and I have been trying to download the DVD packs so I > can practice the tutorials on the site but always end up with a corrupt copy > which I am unable to boot from. I therefore

Re: mutt deletes 1st unread

freeman : > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:55:54AM +0100, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: > > freeman writes: > > > I use folder-hooks to archive mail after n weeks. Here is the l-debusr > > > hook: > > > > > > folder-hook l-debusr 'push > > > ~r>12w!~F+archive/l-debusr' > > > > I have the following for arc

Re: dlink dwa-556

lee : > Hi, Hi yourself. My only purpose here is to note that some of your posts are excruciatingly long. This elicits flames (some pay by the byte). Suggest: http://paste.debian.net/ --- Thanks for starting this thread. I'm learning as fast as I can (friend's D-Link WNA-1330/Ather

Re: gpm buffer: CLI vs. X

~/devl/perl/things.pl replaces ~/sh/things.sh; datestamps, # separates, and pretty-prints entries. # # 13Apr2002 s. keeling 0001 replace things.sh # 10Oct2004 s. keeling 0002 writes html # 12Jun2005 s. keeling 0003 reformatting, < > # 1Jul2005

help w wodim burning audio.

Hi. This is frustrating. I've been burning backups happily with this for years. Now, my musician buddy wants to distribute a demo cd, and I can't get anything to work (burn a playable audio CD). I know I've done something like this (ripped CDs) in the past, but burning a few .wav's is stumping

Re: how to set up iceweasel 3.5 to use mutt as mailer for "link sendto"

Elimar Riesebieter : > I've tried settings -> apps -> mailto -> shellscript > > Shellscript: > > #!/bin/sh > exec xterm -e mutt "$@" > > The xterm only pops up for 1 second. > > Any hints? Ben at linuxgazette.net and I've been playing with this for years (I haven't used it in a while; ca

Re: Help with dict-client in Lenny?

Charlie : > On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:29:56 -0600 "s. keeling" > shared this with us all: > > >Hi. I've two Lenny boxes, both pretty much hand-crafted (as in no > >"Desktop Environment" on install; I startx into fluxbox). > > > >On

Re: Power management on older laptop.

Chris Jones : > This is an old Dell Inspiron 7500 with an Intel PIII - (Coppermine) > running debian 'lenny'. > > The hardware supports an early version of the SpeedStep technology that > makes it possible to switch clocking between 650MHz and 500MHz. This is > normally done via a BIOS optio

Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm

Klistvud : > > I've got a HP laptop (Compaq 6715b with a Turion 64 dual core) and it's > running quite hot. When the CPU governor is set to PowerSave, it runs > at roughly 52 C, and when the CPU governor is set to OnDemand, it > easily reaches 90 C and more. FWIW, this is my experience as

Re: software fan control

andy baxter : > Dale wrote: > > 2009/8/15 andy baxter : > >> > >> I have just built a mini-itx box with a jetway J7F4 motherboard. It's > >> great, > >> apart from the fan is a bit noisier than I had hoped - I bought it hoping > > > > Have a look at a package called lm-sensors, it has a program b

Re: [SOLVED] Sound isnt working properly

Gregor Galwas : > Ok, found the problem - kind of. > > 1. /etc/group was *READ*/write only to root. group/other were totally > forbidden. Just to verify, are you sure that was /etc/group, or might it have been /etc/group- (namely its backup copy)? The latter should be 600. > Alsa couldn't

Re: What is the best setup to compute in the burning hot sun?

Ron Johnson : > On 2009-08-01 08:31, Ian L. Target wrote: > [snip] > > That is what the lawn is for. ;) > > Dud, I think your TMI alarm is broken. Three Mile Island alarm?!? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

Re: question about email delivery triggered by resent thread on musings

Paul E Condon : > > I think it has something to do with Procmail. I run Procmail to > distribute emails by topic/sender/etc. When fetchmail terminates, > procmail is still running, I suspect. Is this what is happening? Is procmail will log its activities, with "VERBOSE = yes" giving plenty of

Re: Sadly...

Teemu Likonen : > On 2009-07-23 17:46 (UTC), s. keeling wrote: > > >>> vim (from mutt) also puts the cursor at the beginning. > > > ... While emacs, called from mutt or slrn, puts it right at the start > > of the body text. :-) > > These command-line te

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

: > ---- "s. keeling" wrote: > > : > > > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to > > > /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just > > > after S55something. > > > > > >

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

: > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to > /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just > after S55something. > > (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants > to, but things fly by so fast that I can't see.) > > Thanks >

Re: Sadly...

Celejar : > On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:29:35 +0300 > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Tue,21.Jul.09, 21:01:22, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > > > The right position for the cursor when starting a reply is at the > > > beginning of the quoted text so that you can > > > > > > - cut parts of it which ar

serial port mouse fouls up lenny?

Canibalising my desktop for a ps/2 mouse, I replaced it with a serial mouse. Now, X on desktop is seriously hosed. I've tried "dpkg- reconfigure", but it never asks where the mouse is. What am I missing? I'll dig into backups to see what I need in xorg.conf, but I'd like to understand what happ

Re: How do you get aptitude to do what you want?

lee : > > I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation, but aptitude keeps yelp > in its current state, claiming that upgrading yelp would break a > dependency with gman. But gman is not even installed. > > When I mark yelp as upgradeable, it says that it would break > scrollkeeper. So I te

Re: Question about Installing Lenny on a laptop

Cláudio E. Elicker : > On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Petrus Validus wrote: > ... > > > Usually I just install the base and build from there (on desktops) but > > since I'm on a laptop I'm wondering what tools and packages are part of > > the "Laptop" selection? > > Try this: > aptitude search '~

Re: xautolock does nothing...

Tony Baldwin : > I have xautolock and slock installed, and have tried to use this: > xautolock -time 5 -locker slock > for those times I walk away and forget to engage slock. > But it doesn't work. > Any idea why? No, but I can offer a solution. Try xscreensaver (and related). If you run Gkr

Re: [OT] SQL Syntax Error '????????????????'

Harry Rickards : > > I know this is off-topic, but I don't really want to have to subscribe > to or constantly read the MySQL mailing lists, and the IRC channel's no > help. Search the archives: groups.google.com "comp.databases.mysql" # guessing. However, I think your problem more relate

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html!

Chris Bannister : > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:07:51PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Tue,02.Jun.09, 16:27:18, Harry Rickards wrote: > > > > > While I use Thunderbird, some people use CLI-based mail clients such as > > > alpine or mutt. In these, HTML shows up as the actual HTML code. > >

Re: MySQL admin qref? [Solved]

deb...@waysoft.com : > On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:41:10 -0600 "s. keeling" wrote: > > Incoming from Robert Baron: > > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:13 PM, s. keeling > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > (0) [root] infidel /root_ mysql >

Re: MySQL admin qref?

Incoming from Robert Baron: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:13 PM, s. keeling wrote: > > > > Hi. I'm trying to config mysql. I've done this before, and it worked > > well, and I took notes, but they're not helping at the moment. I > > haven't trie

MySQL admin qref?

Hi. I'm trying to config mysql. I've done this before, and it worked well, and I took notes, but they're not helping at the moment. I haven't tried everything yet, and I'd rather come up with a plan than work from flawed notes. On Debian, how do you set the mysql root user pword? I've tried my

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

JoeHill : > s. keeling wrote: > > > JoeHill : > > > lee wrote: > > > > > > > > the subject says it all: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) > > > > to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays? > > > >

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

JoeHill : > lee wrote: > > > the subject says it all: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) > > to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays? > > Try this: > > http://clive.sourceforge.net/ ITYM: aptitude update && aptitude install clive -- Any technology distinguishable from ma

[OT] Gmail posters! turn off html! (was: Re: How to improve performance on laptop?)

Michael Yang : [snip] This is a mailing list. The text is all that's needed. Thanks. [html makes your posts ugly and difficult to read.] -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://

Help with dict-client in Lenny?

Hi. I've two Lenny boxes, both pretty much hand-crafted (as in no "Desktop Environment" on install; I startx into fluxbox). On one of them, dict-client works as expected. It brings the result up in a pager. In the other box, no pager. It just dumps it to stdout. How do I change this, or track

"Mutt, Exim4, Debian, Ubuntu and BCC. FAIL" (debian-news.net).

Hey. Please see: http://www.debian-news.net/2009/04/29/mutt-exim4-debian-ubuntu-and-bcc-fail-fix-included/ Do any of you out there have any more details on this problem? I've tried the fix suggested, and on my first test (no Bcc:) exim4 bounced it saying no recipient addresses found. I've s

Re: less secure login

David Jardine : > When logging into a console under squeeze, a false user name is now > rejected immediately. Up to recently there was no reaction to a > false user name until the password had been entered. > > Although I personally find the new behaviour more convenient, it > seems to me

Re: All locales in /usr/share/locale

Nuno Magalhães : > > Technicly, can i safely remove unused locales? I do use localepurge > (on the new system since isntall), but there don't seem to be included > in the process. dpkg-reconfigure locales Unselect the locales you don't want, then run localeourge again. -- Any technology

Re: Intro

Ben Badgley : > > My name is Ben Badgley. I live in rural Virginia, we can visit Have fun. Wise choice. If you need help, *please* tell us what you've got and what it's doing so we have a chance at helping (/var/log/* is useful). I've been loving this stuff since '93. :-) -- Any technolog

[OT] Re: question about term

Zhengquan Zhang : ... [snipped] -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Good one, but lacks originality? Cf. Goedel Escher Bach? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

Re: Lenny 5.0 AMD64 install hangs

Luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato : > > I am trying to install Debian 5.0 Lenny on AMD64 machine > but it hangs at partitioning. Why ? I don't know. It had no trouble installing on my AMD64. > I need some help here. I need some more details to be able to help. I can suggest you use SystemRescu

[Solved] Re: No sound on HP dv4

I just plugged a pair of external speakers into this thing this morning, and found it all appears to work. YouTube videos and wmv files play fine. s. keeling : > Nigel Henry : > > Repost of info posted on the /dev/sndstat thread by s. keeling. > > > > s. keeling : > &

Acomdata 320 Gb external USB & Linux/Sidux.

Acomdata 320 Gb external USB has so far been useless on every Linux I've tried it with. Thanks to a hint from d-u, I finally got around to loading usb_storage ("Doh!"). That manages to get this drive to elicit "sdb" (finally). The box says it's USB 2.0 ("Interface: Hi-Speed USB 2.0"). "Acomdata

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

n to. Contents of ${topdir}/afio WILL be # burned to the iso by mkisofs # ptns="etc home var" # # Functions. - # # mkisofs? create iso fs for wodim to burn. # mkiso() { genisoimage -o ${iso} \ -allow-leading-dots

Re: why pop out this window "the platform you are running is not supported by this tool"?

Star Liu : > My box is debian sid amd64 with desktop gnome, when i performance some > admin on the system by click on a item in System-Administration, it > pops out a window to let me choose my platform, then i choose the > debian gnu/linux, unstable/testing. why it always makes me to choose, >

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

Robert Hodgins : > > > and boot from the CD reader using an SBM card > > Not a card. Sorry. I meant a floppy. > I use a floppy with Smart Boot Manager v. 3.7.1 on it so that the > computer will boot from the CD. I've used this before (a long time ago) on a AMD 486DX3-100. It worked. -- A

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

Robert Hodgins : > > Lenny installer isn't. Should I still be using this machine "down the > road" (and I'd like to keep it going as long as the hardware holds up), I'm all for "driving it into the ground" in order to get your money's worth out of the price of a car, but really, unless you're a

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