Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 00:08 +, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 21:55 +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > You mean DVDShrink and you can run it through WINE. Not sure if it works > > like on > > Windows systems, though. > > I've ran it through crossover office - not through vanilla

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-07-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 00:59 -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > I noticed that on her machine, QEMU does not eat lots of CPU, while > > on my machine, it eats the machine. I've copied the exact raw image > > disc from her machine to mine, but QEM

Re: [OT] google desktop on Debian

2007-07-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
on. I > wonder how much space it takes for indexing Sorry if I'm ignorant but, How is this better/different than Beagle or any of the other open-source data indexing projects out there? > raju > -- Andrew J. Barr We matter more than pounds and pence Your economic theory ma

Re: [OT] Samsung-provided linux drivers could be dangerous

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/17/07, Anson Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Samsung_Linux_printer_driver_modifies_the_permissions_of_many_executables I was going to recommend a Samsung Laser printer (like my ML-2250) on the "Economic Printer" thread, but now maybe not. I remember seein

Re: Problems with Krusader - crashes

2007-07-23 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/23/07, Jostein Elvaker Haande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ krusader krusader: ldap-nss.c:1374: do_init: Assertion `cfg->ldc_uris[__session.ls_current_uri] != ((void *)0)' failed. KCrash: Application 'krusader' crashing... I can't find any apparent reason for «Krusader» to

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/26/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Douglas. Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 18:23: > It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues > requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror > or links2. Aside from the fact that one softwa

Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat....

2007-07-28 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/28/07, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 07/28/07 13:46, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > > > I was wrong. As Jesus said in the Bible "O, ye of little faith". I > > > > Yeshua didn't speak English. But that's a way different topic. > > You sp

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-07-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/29/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm on slow dialup. Downloads of iso's take days. Yet, I still want to > be able to browse the internet. > > I would like to set up something like trickle that will run something > but limit its bandwidth so that it lower's its priority.

Using HAL from Python?

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew J. Barr
I am writing a small GTK+ StatusIcon application that manages internal touchpads and external mice on laptops. I would like to interface with HAL to detect when a USB mouse in plugged in--is anyone aware of Python HAL bindings or are we just supposed to use python-dbus to talk to HAL? -- Andrew B

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/30/07, Stef Daniels VK5HSX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, >I am aware that Iceweasel uses the same engine as Firefox for > the operation, however, there seems to be problems with using Iceweasel > on sites like Ebay. When you are creating an item to sell and you get to > t

Re: Apt-get errors with dynamic NMAP out space

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/30/07, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apt-get errors out as show below when trying the read the package lists. > How do I get out of it. > > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occurred while processing libsdl1.2debian-all (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with > MergeList > /var/

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew J. Barr
> hmmm... very interesting but it makes my toes curl to think of > installing IE... What I really need to do it duplicate my windows qemu > image and upgrade IE in one of the two images. That makes me happier, > having that segregation... No need for VM image duplication. That wastes disk space, a

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/31/07, Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My understanding of chroot is extremely limited, right now. I have searched > around, but can anyone point me to anything specific that they know to be a > good tutorial/explanation or how chroot works and what its capabilities are? chroot is

Re: IM on a home debian network

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/28/07, Jesus Arocho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a home network with 5 boxes, one of which is a server. I run a > combination of Ubuntu and Debian desktops and Debian on the server. Is there > a program available that will provide instant messaging within the network? Pidgin as well

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/31/07, Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, you seem to be really singing the praises of chroot. > > I have a spare 10gig partition on my hard drive. I originally considered > simply dual-booting Etch and Lenny, or Etch and Feisty, or something similar. > Perhaps instead I will mak

Re: converting file system

2007-08-03 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/3/07, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:35:09PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > So I doubt it. How you proceed depends on what mount point we're > > talking about. Hopefully, its not /. Anything else you can 'fix' by > > doing a backup, going

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/4/07, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Core2 Duo on which I am running a 686 kernel (from Debian > unstable). It has 1GB of memory > > I am wondering two things > > a) What are the pros and cons in switching to 64 bit mode? > - Is it faster? Yes. Unlike true 64-bit

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/4/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/04/07 12:53, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > >> a) What are the pros and cons in switching to 64 bit mode? > >> - Is it faster? > > > > Yes. Unlike true 64-bit architectures like PowerPC, there is a p

Re: Seeing files shared from an Apple computer

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/4/07, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I enabled "Personal File Sharing" on an iMac on my LAN, but can't seem > to see the files from KDE. I have a pretty full installation of KDE > (testing), including kdnssd, and I have avahi and friends installed (but > dbus is not enabled). > > av

Re: odd xorg-video-intel problem

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/4/07, Takehiko Abe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ package: xserver-xorg-video-intel version 2:2.1.0-2 ] > > Since I updated xserver-xorg-video-intel, my LCD started to complain > that it is in a non-preset mode, that is, the monitor displayed a > message "Nonpreset Mode" for 5 seconds when X s

Re: scanner problem

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/5/07, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Cannon Lide 20 scanner does not work on Etch. It only works if i > start it as root. Is there an easy way to fix this? > Thanks > Jeff You need to add yourself to the 'scanner' group. As root, run: gpasswd -a scanner being your username. -- An

Re: Public PC

2007-08-05 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/5/07, Dave Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope to make the PC reasonably idiot proof (the box will be kept > separate from the users) - the keyboard and display will be > accessible. The goal is to keep users from inadvertently trashing the > machine, but to provide usability. Sabayon

Re: Watching youtube videos on AMD64

2007-08-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/7/07, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having just upgraded my system from i386 to AMD64 I find I am unable to > watch youtube vidoes anymore. I generally use Konqueror, but Ideweasel > doesn't work either. > > I thought all I had to do was install nspluginswrapper (as well as > lib

Firefox and Time Zones

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
I am suffering from a frustrating issue with Iceweasel (2.0.0.6, Debian unstable amd64). I have a LiveJournal, and the post form has date and time fields on it. These are automatically filled in with the current date and time, using JavaScript. Problem is, Firefox thinks the time is four hours lat

[SOLVED] Re: Firefox and Time Zones

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/8/07, Andrew J. Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am suffering from a frustrating issue with Iceweasel (2.0.0.6, > Debian unstable amd64). > > I have a LiveJournal, and the post form has date and time fields on > it. These are automatically filled in with the current d

Re: dumb question about mozilla plugin directory location....

2007-08-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/13/07, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I downloaded flashplayer9. > > I downloaded it to my home directory /home/mikef/ > > I then did tar -zxf on it and it nicely made a little directory with > flashplayer in it in my /home/mikef directory.. Is there

Re: dumb question about mozilla plugin directory location....

2007-08-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/13/07, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't tried that. I am using amd64 Etch by the way. Ah, important detail. You need to read up on nspluginwrapper, and you'll need to do manual installation because the amd64 flashplugin package appeared post-etch. You may be able to

Re: Iceweasel not a fully supported browser for Gmail?

2007-08-21 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/21/07, Bipin Babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 8/21/07, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2007/8/21, Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi, > > > > > > It seems now that gmail does not consider Iceweasel as a fully > > > supported browser? > > > Does someone know s

Re: Iceweasel not a fully supported browser for Gmail?

2007-08-21 Thread Andrew J. Barr
it's worth. > Bipin Babu > > > On 8/21/07, Andrew J. Barr < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/21/07, Bipin Babu < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 8/21/07, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: can't play Flash anymore

2007-09-03 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/3/07, steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does it work in firefox? > > and have you tried the below or using automatix? Automatix has a bad reputation among distribution developers. I don't know the full story but I suspect it's a lot like the way the Wine developers despised WineTools. Users,

Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

2007-09-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/4/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Proper usage of grammar in your native language is a sign of > intelligence. We value intelligence. We also value common courtesy and humility, or at least we should. Don't be a jerk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Linux Printer Sharing

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/15/07, ArcticFox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I've done that but my mac can't seem to find the printer. I've got > a message asking me for the 'Device URI' and I have no idea what it's > looking for. In recent releases of CUPS, you can navigate to localhost:631 using the web browser on th

Re: Gnome Update Manager's "Smart" Update

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/15/07, Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The "Smart" update button in the update manager often comes back to me > with a solution that involes removing software that I use every day, in fact > software that I usually have open when the update manager is open (such as > pidgin and

Re: Gnome Update Manager's "Smart" Update

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/15/07, Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew J. Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is that really such a smart idea? Why is the update manager suggesting > > > that's a smart idea? It will cripple my ability to work! Is it really tha

Re: Compiz and window decorations

2007-09-20 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/20/07, Francisco M Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I've just finished installing Debian etch, and until I installed > compiz the only problem I had was the crappy font rendering in > Iceweasel (which was already solved by disabling its using pango). You should disable use

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-21 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/21/07, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/21/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why is selinux in Debian at all? > > > > Have any users asked for it? > > I don't know, but if it wasn't in Debian, I would ask for it. > > I don't get why people seem to think SELinux is a b

Re: unstable: problems installing GNOME

2007-09-24 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/24/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 07:41:19PM +0100, michael wrote: > > ... > > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies. > > libwnck18: Depends: libwnck-common (< 2.19) but 2.20.0-1 is to be > > installed > > E: Broken packages > >

Re: Etch + USB Modem -- Supported?

2007-09-24 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/24/07, Ted Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > > i need to get another (dial-up) modem for my linux > box. does the most up to date version of Etch support > USB modems 'out of the box?' (ie- without a lot of > heavy configuring, like kernel recompiling.) > > and if so, which USB modems

Re: Etch + USB Modem -- Supported?

2007-09-24 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/24/07, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/24/07 14:27, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > [snip] > > not have Linux drivers at all. Generally hardware-based modems are > > sever

Web listing of repository

2006-09-14 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Hi, Does anyone know of available web scripts (perl, python, php, whatever) that can parse a Packages.gz and/or Sources.gz file for an APT repository and output to HTML? Something similar to what packages.debian.org does. I've got an unofficial repository I'm thinking about making public and I'd l

Re: Bread

2007-03-30 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 15:51 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Joe Hart writes: > > Which country is this? Here, Aldi doesn't ever sell bread that cheap. > > I'm in the US. I suspect that we are talking about a different company. Aldi is from Northern Europe, which country exactly escapes me at the mo

Re: GPL v3?

2007-04-03 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 14:18 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > Actually I'd like to hear it too. The GNU GPL is very Debian related, > seeing as Debian is one of the only distros with a strong voice when > it comes to free software. And I'm very interested to hear the legal > side of things, since I re

Re: Is there a C# for Debian-Etch?

2007-04-06 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I was trying to install a package, Gnome-RDP, and it popped up a message that it can't find c#. Is there one? If so where? Can't find one on debian.org. Perhaps you need Mono? (Gnome-RDP is a ssh client with profiles, and other neat stuff ... It sounds like it anyway.)

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Should the OP consider that he _has_ been compromized? It's certainly a possibility but I would think that an incompetent ISP is more likely than a compromise. I would echo what someone said earlier in the thread, ask for details from your ISP. If they can't or (

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Rick Pasotto wrote: Don't use port 22. Nope: http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/en/linux/2007021502-false-sense-of-security.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh setup: what is the Debian way?

2007-04-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Paul E Condon wrote: Debian automagically starts ssh-agent somewhere along the chain of events that bring up X and Gnome. I don't reboot often, but when I do, I forget to run ssh-add. Where can I place an invocation of ssh-add so that it is run once just after login? I think there must be a Deb

Re: Wireless G WPA2 PCI Card Suggestion Please

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Celejar wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:10:05 -0400 Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'd like to get a Wireless PCI Card for my Linux system. I'd like it to support WPA2 and also be Wireless G. I am currently using Debian, but this is a new system, so I'm perfectly willin

Re: Wireless G WPA2 PCI Card Suggestion Please

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Celejar wrote: On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 07:59:15 -0400 "Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Celejar wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:10:05 -0400 Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'd like to get a Wireless PCI Card for my Linux system. I&#x

Re: Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:44:13PM +0100, andy wrote: Hello I have, since installing Etch, been downloading packages with regard for functionality and because I wanted that program, rather than focusing on whether or not that package was non-free or free (with respect

Re: Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Andrew J. Barr wrote: Now if they could only figure out some way to do something similar for the Intel Centrino radios... Andrew It's been done - but you have to go to the SourceForge site to get the firmware - which requires you to sign an Intel licence a

Re: Netgear WPN311 Wireless G problems

2007-04-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:37:03 -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: [...] Hey everyone, thanks a lot for the advice! I ended up getting a Netgear WPN311 Wireless G PCI card. Now I'm just trying to get the darn thing working. Right now, I'm actually using the desktop install

Re: Problems upgrading libc6

2007-04-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Luis Hidalgo wrote: Hi, I think I have a serious problem. I tried to upgrade my packages using apt-get upgrade but instead of being successful the following message appeared: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22sarge6_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite

Re: ftp.us.debian.org not responding

2007-04-15 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Carl Fink wrote: Over the past few days, the above server has refused downloads at least 19 of 20 times when using apt-get. Am I the only one experiencing this problem? No, you're not. :P I've been using debian.mirrors.tds.net, which is extremely fast. I typically get 620 kB/sec downloads, w

Re: ftp.us.debian.org not responding

2007-04-15 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Celejar wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:06:14 -0400 "Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been using debian.mirrors.tds.net, which is extremely fast. I typically get 620 kB/sec downloads, which is about as fast as my Internet connection can handle. kB(ytes) or

Re: Etch NetInst Thinkpad 600

2007-04-15 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Matthew K Poer wrote: On my old Thinkpad 600, I am attempting to install Etch via NetInst CD. I am having trouble with pcmcia detection, which means I cannot properly detect my network hardware. The main modules seem to load (pcmcia-core, pcmcia, yenta_socket), as well as the module for my wirel

Re: Etch NetInst Thinkpad 600

2007-04-15 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Matthew K Poer wrote: On my old Thinkpad 600, I am attempting to install Etch via NetInst CD. I am having trouble with pcmcia detection, which means I cannot properly detect my network hardware. The main modules seem to load (pcmcia-core, pcmcia, yenta_socket), as well as the module for my wirel

Re: How

2007-04-16 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Rogerio wrote: Hi, I try install smbclient using apt-get install smbclient, but don´t work. What can I do do to solve this problem?? What is the error exactly? Exact console output would be helpful. Rogerio Souto Maior -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Touchpad Configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > After a long fight with an offline install of Debian, I decided to > give up and do a netinstall. > > The new installation is working PERFECTLY, with just one hitch; My > touchpad doesn't work right. The touchpad doesn't seem t

Re: Touchpad Configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > After a long fight with an offline install of Debian, I decided to > give up and do a netinstall. > > The new installation is working PERFECTLY, with just one hitch; My > touchpad doesn't work right. The touchpad doesn't seem t

Re: grub question read-only

2007-04-19 Thread Andrew J. Barr
our root filesystem is also read-only, remounted read-write later in the boot process. If you use ext3, you'll notice after an unclean shutdown you'll see messages similar to the following: EXT3-fs: recovery required on read-only filesystem. EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during r

Re: interesting ubuntu bug report

2007-04-19 Thread Andrew J. Barr
hat is both free and widely recognized for quality and stability. What a cheap stunt that is. Mark Shuttleworth, I hate to say it, has always struck me as being less than genuine. I'm sure many people will disagree with me but that's been my impression. - -- Andrew J. Barr | http://www.pride

Re: Init scripts

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew J. Barr
what you want if you write some scripts and place them in /etc/ifplugd/action.d/. I've done this before. - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 ppc) (Debian/1.5.0.10dfsg.1) "Why must I fail at every attempt at masonry?"

Re: Warning to ATI's proprietary fglrx users using Testing / Lenny

2007-04-21 Thread Andrew J. Barr
orts underway via the Linux Foundation's NDA program to get docs from AMD/ATI so that the opensource radeon driver can support newer ATI graphics hardware. - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 ppc) (Debian/1.5.0.10dfsg.1) "Why mu

Re: X11 display terribly slow after upgrade

2007-04-22 Thread Andrew J. Barr
her it uses GLX (3D) or RENDER (2D). Help! -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 x86_64) Debian/1.5.0.10dfsg.1-3 "Why must I fail at every attempt at masonry?" -- Homer Simpson, "Mom and Pop Art" [AABF15]

Re: X11 display terribly slow after upgrade

2007-04-22 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Andrew J. Barr wrote: Zlatko Calusic wrote: Hello! First post to the list after a looong time, so be gentle. :) I'm using lenny/sid distribution. Few days ago, after Xorg packages got upgraded to 1.3.0, display became very slow. Every redrawing, every scroll, it's all slow. On o

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-23 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > s. keeling wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: >> Nah, the kids these days think MLs are old hat and frumpy compared to >> web forums. I avoid web forums--the intelligence level is nowhere *n

[OT] Re: Debian User List

2007-04-23 Thread Andrew J. Barr
ransport roster had these strange bobble-head buddy icons. Oh yeah, the "site requires Windows or OS X and Flash for no good reason." -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 ppc) (Debian/1.5.0.10dfsg.1) "Why must I fail at every

Re: Unable to make a bootable CD from the image files.

2007-04-23 Thread Andrew J. Barr
y to CD-R(W). Don't "extract" them, that will probably strip out the boot information. I know there's a free Windows program that records ISO images to disk, but I cannot remember the name of it. Does someone on this list know of it? - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compati

Re: [OT] Re: Debian User List

2007-04-24 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > I can't access the site, since I don't have a flash extension > installed. See what not enabling flash can gain! I'm on a PowerPC laptop. Flash isn't an option for me. :P - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5

Re: Error message: `This page contains information of a type...'

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list and run: aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree If you are on another architecture, the packages mozilla-plugin-gnash or swfdec-mozilla are your only options. > Thanks for any help, > Rodolfo > > - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (com

Re: [OT] Favoured Firewall

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
firewall. Most of the other things people are discussing here are higher-level tools designed to configure the kernel-level IPtables stuff. For a desktop system, I prefer Firestarter. For a server or headless system I use Shorewall, mostly because it's easily administered via Webmin. - -- A

Re: Kernel upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Claughton wrote: > Ah, makes sense. I've never used LILO, only Grub. You didn't miss anything, trust me. - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 ppc) (Debian/1.5.0.10dfsg.

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/26/07 18:40, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:45:46AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 04/26/07 09:44, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Systems talk about types. >>> Huh? "Systems == types"? >>> >>> Th

Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew J. Barr
work better that way. > Many TIA, > Dennis > > - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 (en-US; X11; Linux 2.6.21 i686) Debian/4.1 "Why must I fail at every attempt at masonry?" -- Homer Simpson, "Mom and Pop Art" [AABF15] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew J. Barr
s reboots for one thing, and one thing only: changing your kernel. Even then, you can use kexec() to reboot without running the firmware again. - -- Andrew J. Barr Linux on PowerPC: http://www.penguinppc.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with M

Re: Lean lenny on USB stick

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew J. Barr
localepurge. Also, I've always been annoyed by the installation of hplip, at least as a part of the default GNOME install. Not only is this of no use to me (I have a PS/PCL HP printer on a CUPS server) it takes up disk space /and/ memory--there are daemons started at boot time. Andrew >

Re: PRISM 2/2.5/3 wifi driver for Debian?

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
RISM 3 > device. So does Debian have a PRISM driver? Last I heard linux-wlan-ng was the place to go for Intersil USB Wifi support in Linux. - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; en-US; X11; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 i686) Debian/1.5.0.10dfsg.1-3 "Why must I fail at every attempt at

Re: General questions...

2007-04-30 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: > 2) Ubuntu had a little graphical app that loaded upon double clicking > DEB files, it let you install them - what is this app? :D gdebi -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 x86_64) Debian/1.5.0.10

Re: extract progressive frames from dv file

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
stream. There are deinterlacing techniques, but they reduce the quality and resolution of the image somewhat, depending on the technique used. Mplayer can do this, consult the documentation. -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 x86_64) Debian/1.5

Re: Fixed fonts in Debian

2007-05-06 Thread Andrew J. Barr
ever, or the debian.org web site) for xfont and you'll see > a slew of them. For fixed-width I use either monospace or terminus but > there are others. There's also gsfonts-x11 that allows X to use the > fonts supplied with gs (ghostscript, a postscript renderer). > >

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
utlook think there's an attachment. -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Mplayer to get what you want. You might need the repository from www.debian-multimedia.org, espeically if you want to deal in patent-encumbered algorithms. Regards, Deboo -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the fla

Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
#x27;s more it can't handle different kinds of wav files like ALSA's aplay command can. Doug. -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis, 1

Re: program to rip just audio from avseq.DAT files on VCDs

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
o what you want. Both have extensive documentation. ;-) > thankyou so much :-) > > Kind Regards > > Siju > > -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
going to refer to the movie "Dogma", which is one of every disaffected former Catholic's favorite movies, if for no other reason than George Carlin is a cardinal. -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapp

Re: How to make X listen on port 6000?

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
manager's settings. For GNOME, this is in /etc/gdm. Cheers Arne -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: sane question

2007-05-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
nice web page[0] that details scanner support. [0] http://www.sane-project.org/ - -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew J. Barr
alking points that now pass for conventional wisdom in the press. The Democrats deserve plenty of blame for not standing up for what they believe in, but don't leave out the other half of the story: the Republican bully machine that created the situation in the first place. > Regards, >

Re: connecting HP Pavilion zv5260 to a tv

2007-05-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
his cable ? > > Any suggestions will be very welcome... > > TIA > > BTW, I am running Etch. > - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGI

Re: bcm43xx issues an error message every minute

2007-05-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
ges showing up every minute > until the error is solved? > > Any hint is welcome. > Thanks in advance, > > G. Heinrich > > > - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answ

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-28 Thread Andrew J. Barr
m just working in console. It only happens > if I switch to tty consoles even for a minute and then back to X ... > btw, just had to do that just now too. > > Any help appriciated. > > Regards, > Deboo [0] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7916 - -- Andrew J. Barr

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 30 May 2007 01:30:36 +0530 "Deboo ^" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ATI Radeon This isn't enough information. Are you using the free driver ("radeon") or the non-free, unsupported binary blob ("fglrx&q

Re: [OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
e are cool lights > inside the case? There isn't any and no. Gamers seem more susceptible than most to that old saw about a fool and his money... > /me wanders off muttering about them dern whippersnappers > > A - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; power

Re: powersave error.

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
." How to check DBUS configuration? Try the following command as root: # gpasswd -a powerdev Then log out and log back in. > I don't get any > options in kpowersave button in the tray. I have klaptop also > running. Whether both are complementary or replacements. > - -- Andr

Re: Yahoo chat client for Debian

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
rd instead of stupid stopgap measures that ultimately > ensures continued IM noninteroperability? There is also Gajim for the GTK+-inclined among you. I don't know what the status of voice support there is, however... - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerp

Re: powersave error.

2007-05-30 Thread Andrew J. Barr
d yourself to. powerdev is for gnome-power-manager, perhaps it is different for powersaved/kpowersave. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Vers

Re: OT: symlinks question

2007-05-31 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 31 May 2007 21:01:44 +0200 Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a single command to change the target of a symlink? Try using the -f switch on ln. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12

Re: gps and linux?

2007-06-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
USB) emit NMEA data, which is standard. Any Linux GPS tool can parse it. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) "The plural of anecdote is not evidence." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6

Slightly faster h.264 decoder

2007-06-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
can do to get a bit of a speed boost? I've already turned off PulseAudio, window compositing, and shut down apps taking CPU time (like Azureus). Thanks in advance. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) "The plural of anecdote is not

Re: Linksys wireless nic

2007-06-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
ourceforge.net/ > Thanks, > Randy > > - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) "The plural of anecdote is not evidence." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGYKJyhuM+Z

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