Re: broken HD (sector 0)

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 08:51:54AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Jesus arteche wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a hard disk broken, it doesnt boot and if i put it as a slave >> gives me a lot of errors. It has several partitions (ext3, fat32 ntfs) >> i'd like to recovery some data from it. Someone

proper place for iptables script

In the interest of learning new things, I'm moving from shorewall to plain old iptables. I've got my script made, but I'm not sure what the proper procedure is for starting it automatically at boot. Is there a "Debian way" to do this? -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

using mplayer instead of flash plugin for Iceweasel

I've replaced the Iceweasel flash plugin on some of my systems with mplayer by using the Greasemonkey extension with the following script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24999 It works nicely, uses less CPU, and sound works on my LTSP thin clients (a big plus). Can anybody suggest how to

Re: Musings on debian-user list

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:47:55PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:20:00AM EDT, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 28 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > On 2009-07-28 13:09, Mark wrote: > > > [snip] > > >> When I feel adventurous one weekend I'll try a Debian install wi

Re: Musings on debian-user list

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:01:48PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:14:55AM EDT, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:47:55PM -0400, Chris Jones > > was heard to say: > > > (2) Since mutt runs its editor as an external program, there's no way > > to

Re: should I get SATA drives for old PC?

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:54:55AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > Steve Kleene writes: > > > Before I build a Lenny system on my 5-year-old PC, I want to replace the two > > internal hard drives. I'm not too swift with hardware specs and want to > > make > > sure I get the right drives. I will p

Re: Inquiry:Debian server Remote Desktop Connection

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:33:56PM +0800, debuser wrote: > В Втр, 28/07/2009 в 06:22 +0100, hadi motamedi пишет: > > Dear All > > Can you please let us know what is the required service that needs to > > be enabled on the Debian server to allow for Remote Desktop Connection > > opened from the MS W

Re: mutt's tag command - Was: Musings on debian-user list

ng practically never happens to me. > > [..] > > > CJ > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > On T

Re: Mail transfer agent and Active Directory

On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 01:34:09PM +0200, pch0317 wrote: > Hello > I have 150 users in my network. I want to change MsExchange to open MTA. > > 1. Is there any open MTA which cooperate with Active Directory or > eDirectory? I don't want to create 150 user account. I would like to it > still work e

Re: Back up routines

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 06:48:17PM +0100, AG wrote: > Generally I have relied on the separate partitioning of my /home > directory as some measure of protection against hosing my system through > pebkac-type activities, but this is not necessarily the most reliable of > options and certainly

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45:43AM +0100, AG wrote: > Hi > > Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able > to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and > in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be > subject to br

vim linebreaks in Mutt

What's the proper setting to get good line breaks in Mutt (using vim), without manually hitting the enter key? (So that this paragraph, for instance, is not one long line of text, but rather several shorter lines of text). I currently have this in .muttrc: set editor="vim -c 'set wrapmargin=5'"

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:00:44AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> >> On 2009-08-01 12:33 +0200, Bret Busby wrote: >> >>> Actually, in today reconsidering upgrading to Debian 5.0, and, reading >>> the information on the Debian web site, and, in checking using

Re: vim linebreaks in Mutt

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:32:14AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,01.Aug.09, 21:56:46, Rob Owens wrote: > > What's the proper setting to get good line breaks in Mutt (using vim), > > without manually hitting the enter key? (So that this paragraph, for > > instanc

Re: using mplayer instead of flash plugin for Iceweasel

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 09:20:57PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-07-28 21:12, Rob Owens wrote: >> I've replaced the Iceweasel flash plugin on some of my systems with mplayer >> by using the Greasemonkey extension with the following script: >> >> http://us

Re: Thinkpad T60P: bricked by grub transition

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 02:40:33AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > I'm writing to this address since I'm not sure what else to do. > > > I would really appreciate hearing whatever advice might be available > and I will be happy to try to test fixes and post results and so on. > You might want

Re: about a feature which I found in Gnome

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:48:12AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I run Gnome on my desktop. I have only a minimal understanding of its > internals. In it, I have seen a feature that I really like, - and > several features that I really don't like. > > The features that I don't like are motivating

Re: about a feature which I found in Gnome

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 03:45:46PM +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 21:18 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:48:12AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I like the way I can plug a USB device into a USB socket and have it > > > m

Re: Problems with making hardlink-based backups

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:20:17AM +0200, David wrote: > Hi list. > > Until recently I was using rdiff-backup for backing up our servers. > But after a certain point, the rdiff-backup process would take days, > use up huge amounts of CPU and RAM, and the debug logs were very > opaque. And the rdif

migrate physical machine to virtual machine

I've got to move an old Linux OS to a virtual machine. I'm using Debian Lenny as a host. The guest is Suse 9.2, but I'm hoping you guys might have some advice for me. It uses a 2.6 kernel. The physical machine had SCSI drives, and I have changed grub and fstab to reflect virtualbox's hardware (

Re: migrate physical machine to virtual machine

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:15:46AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 07:03:04AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:45:35PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > > I've got to move an old Linux OS to a virtual machine. I'm using Debian

Re: migrate physical machine to virtual machine

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 07:03:04AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:45:35PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > I've got to move an old Linux OS to a virtual machine. I'm using Debian > > Lenny as a host. The guest is Suse 9.2, but I'm hoping you g

Re: a pseudo-"clone" facility for migrating to new hardware?

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 03:25:22AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > into the final stages of my debian upgrade adventure, and here's the > final phase. at the moment, i have a couple more upgrade steps to get > the existing server (old dell P4 system) up to a fully-upgraded lenny > system, an

Re: Converting Flac to MP3

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:16:19PM +0100, Gav wrote: > Does anybody know of a program that will convert Flac files to MP3. > Preferably taking all the tag information from the flac file and setting it > in the MP3 file. I converted my CD collection to Flac a while back but could > now do with MP

Re: [Half OOT] The Cons of Using Self-Signed Certificate

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:24:40PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Kevin Ross wrote: > > > You (or your clients) will need to manually install the certificate on any > > machine that they use to connect to your server.  If they don't, and just > > choose to ignore the

Re: VirtualBox on Lenny 2.6.26-amd64 kernel?

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 05:51:13PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi. > > I've got Lenny, and I'm trying out the precompiled 2.6.26-amd64 > kernel, but not the 64bit install. > I don't understand. Could you explain? > VirtualBox is the only ap

Re: pxe booting problem

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:53:31PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I tried to install debian via PXE. > following the doc, I install netboot.tar.gz which contains pxe file. > I configured the dhcpd.conf here is relevant part : > > host 00016CB3066E{ # MAC > hardware etherne

Re: virtualbox:networking

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 05:31:56AM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > I'm running Lenny-amd64. I set up virtualbox-amd64 from their deb. Works > fine, butI have a network printer (HP Officejet Pro 8500) at 192.168.1.32 > which is within my local network. The install of virtualbox sets up a > n

Re: Grub: error 15

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:47:42AM +0300, Jason Filippou wrote: > Hello, > > I assume this has probably been mentioned before, with all the grub > legacy discussion going on, but here's my situation anyways: > > I have Debian Testing installed on my hp paviliion dv6000 notebook and > executed the

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:20:06PM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > Kevin Ross wrote: > > > If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then > > skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to > > autologin, and add startx to your ~/.bash_profil

per-user permissions on forwarded port

I'm using ssh port forwarding to manage some remote machines. Problem is, I'm doing it from a multi-user machine and I don't want all users on the machine to have access to the forwarded ports. How can I prevent this? For instance, if I log into the remote machine with: ssh -L 8080:localhost:80

Re: How to change the kernel title in /boot/grub/menu.lst?

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 05:16:54PM +0500, surreal wrote: > installed linux-source-2.6.26 in /usr/src, modified some configurations, > and used make-kpkg command to generate a kernel deb file. > > On installing the kernel on my local machine, I found that the kernel was > entered as *titleD

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:18:10AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Now, it is quite feasible to store my entire CD collection on hard > disk, even without compression, and all computers have audio > output. But what is the audio quality of the analog sound signal? I > went to the local Best Buy st

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:06:51PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Certainly not. At best it is equally bad. (On the other hand, apparently > most people don't mind listening to music at low sound quality). > YMMV. > I use *professional* grade sound cards, because I like good sound quality.

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 02:35:05PM -0700, Mark wrote: > >I have been mulling over the same kinds of problems for some time > >also. Noone in this thread has yet mentioned the Logitech Slingbox: > >http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/speakers_audio/wireless_music_systems/&cl=us,en

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 09:53:21PM -0700, Mark wrote: > Rob wrote: > -- > Since you care about the sound quality, I'd recommend encoding with > flac. That's lossless, so there is no sound quality difference between > flac-encoded music and music straight from the CD.Forget about mp3. > It

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:38:41PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Rob Owens put forth on 10/7/2009 8:02 PM: > > > When streaming music, if you play it on 2 different computers will the > > music be in sync? I'm thinking of a sort of "party mode" where I want >

Re: Raid help needed !

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:16:47PM -0500, Jack Schneider wrote: > Hi, All > For over two years, I have used /md0 as / and /md1 under lvm2 with 7 > partitions on this amd64 system. I have migrated from "etch" to > "squeeze" without undue problems. BUT, now I cannot boot either kernel > 2.6.30-1 or

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > So far the responses that I have gotten comfirm without a doubt that > what I was told by the sales person in Best Buy is not at all the > whole story. There is *a lot* more to the solution than just buying an > adapter cable. Mention

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 07:08:20AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On Sunday 28 June 2009 09:50:52 John L Fjellstad wrote: > >> Zachary Uram writes: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium >

Re: Prepartitioning, Grub location for Lenny?

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 08:22:38AM -0500, postid wrote: > I'm preparing to install Debian Lenny on an IBM R40 laptop. My > old layout was as follows: > > <...bootloader questions...> Since you're experimenting w/ bootloader options, you might want to download this and have it ready in case of em

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:49:18PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Yup, no problem as long as you have some unpartitioned disk space on > your hard drive. If not, you can use gparted from a live cd to shrink > your windows partition. It might be that you need to defragment (in > windows!) you

Re: ThinkPad freezing after hw update?

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 09:20:35AM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:22:58AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > Unfortunately, a few seconds after hitting the MEPIS desktop > > > screen, it, too, locks up hard, and I have to reboot. > > >

Re: When you needed newer software than Sid/Backports provide...

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:07:32AM +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: > Hi list, > I use Lenny for my workstation, where I try new cutting-edge software. > I picked Lenny over Squeeze or Sid because of the following reasons. > - The stability. The machine is accessed from the internet > - Squeeze and Sid m

apt pinning to blacklist a package

I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong... I want to prevent a particular package from ever being installed. In /etc/apt/preferences I have: Package: somepackage Pin: version * Pin-Priority: -1 But the package can still be installed by either command: apt-get install somepackage apt-get insta

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:30:06PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:49:18PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> >>> Yup, no problem as long as you have some unpartitioned disk space on >>> your hard drive. If not, you

Re: apt pinning to blacklist a package

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:12:39PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong... > > I want to prevent a particular package from ever being installed. In > /etc/apt/preferences I have: > > Package: somepackage > Pin: version * > Pin-Pri

Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless

On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 01:51:30PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > > On Thursday 02 July 2009 05:09:51 JoeHill wrote: > > > I first tried to get wireless working following this page on the Debian > > > Wiki: > > > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx > > > > > > but then found

Re: Does Debian = Ubuntu?

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 01:31:25PM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > From: Jochen Schulz [mailto:m...@well-adjusted.de] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 4:42 AM > > Subject: Re: Does Debian = Ubuntu? > [snip] > > And I think (without being sure) that you can always upgrade from one > > Ubuntu LT

Re: Does Debian = Ubuntu?

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:51:20AM +0100, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 06:59:36PM -0500, Chris wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:55:01 -0700 > > Daniel Spisak wrote: > > > > > > > > This is not a flippant question, but one I'm curious to hear an > > > answer to. > > > > > >

Re: apt pinning to blacklist a package

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:51:54AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > [You wrote to me directly instead of the list. I'm putting it back, > untrimmed, because others could help] > That was unintentional. Thanks for forwarding it to the list. > On Wed,08.Jul.09, 20:20:14, Rob Ow

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:24:03PM -0700, SteveM wrote: > Fellow Debians, > > I have seven systems scattered around the house. I thought a NFS and a > shared /home would solve my file sharing problems but it doesn't help > with desktop app configs. > > What I'd like is a Universal Desktop Expe

Re: debian live with local repo problem

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:16:15AM +0200, emanuele nespolo wrote: > Hi Tzafrir ! > > Many thanks ! Well, actually I've already tried that way following > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Howto/Cache_Packages, but, I get these > errors when starting the daemon > > Starting Apt-Cacher: apt-cache

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:50:29AM -0700, Steve McCarthy wrote: > On Friday 10 July 2009, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:24:03PM -0700, SteveM wrote: > > > What I'd like is a Universal Desktop Experience, i.e. same kicker > > > applets, same konsole

Re: Video compression

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:23:11AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > How can I compress a short video clip - 88 M in qt format - into > to a size that can be emailed? > You could try avidemux. I think it's in the debian-multimedia repo. I'm not positive that it can import qt format, though. Som

Re: apt pinning to blacklist a package

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:58:23AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,09.Jul.09, 21:50:43, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > That doesn't work either. libmono0 is still installable. > > > > apt-cache policy libmono0 > > > > libmono0: > &

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:52:19PM -0700, Steve McCarthy wrote: > On Saturday 11 July 2009, Rob Owens wrote: > > I typically use Fluxbox and Gnome (and a little LXDE). I haven't used > > KDE in years, so I can't comment on it specifically. > > > > I also haven

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:42:14AM +0500, Daniel Suleyman wrote: > Dear all, i have big issues. > I've installed lenny on my server, installed all programs and ran it on > production, ut now i need to install oracle on it. > My artitions have sizes > user:~# df -kh > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:34:54PM -0700, SteveM wrote: > On Saturday 11 July 2009, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > I see this come up on the LTSP list every once in a while where a > > school wants to have everybody in the lab log in as "student". The > > consensu

Re: Identifying the origin of packages

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 05:44:57PM +0100, Tim Beauregard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I want to remove > > deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian unstable main contrib > non-free restricted > > from my sources.list, however I want to be sure that source isn't

Re: Recommended method to install Firefox 3.6 in Lenny (64 bits)

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 08:57:05AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-01-27 02:36 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > > > Anyway, I've now installed Iceweasel 3.5 from backports. I just wish I > > could have gotten it from the Debain main repo that I know and trust. > > T

Re: which debian i should install?

On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 10:49:35AM -0800, rosy cutie wrote: > i want to install debian on my computer.by searching its website i reaches at > the page > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/i386/iso-cd/ > but i am not able to decide which debian? > i dont understand the computer jargon.i cann

Re: portable Debian

I think you want Debian Live. http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ I use it to boot multiple machines from a USB flash drive, but it should work for a USB hard drive as well. -Rob On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:20:46PM -0400, Germana Oliveira wrote: > Hi!! > > I want to know if someone have done

Re: Suggestions for VoIP software on lenny please

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:35:38PM +, George wrote: > I'm away from home right now and need VoIP to communicate with my > loved ones. Skype works, but it's a CPU hog, has an awful GUI, it > messes up with the soundcard, it's extremely buggy and thus a pain to > use. I've tried Gizmo, which sort

Re: Suggestions for VoIP software on lenny please

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:58:55AM +, George wrote: > On 2/11/10, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:35:38PM +, George wrote: > >> I'm away from home right now and need VoIP to communicate with my > >> loved ones. Skype works, but it&#

Re: portable Debian

ive offers a "persistence" option, which will allow you to install whatever software you want and it will persist between reboots. You can run it on any machine you want. -Rob > > > El mié, 10-02-2010 a las 20:34 -0500, Rob Owens escribió: > > I think you want Debian Live.

Re: portable Debian

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:01:58AM -0430, Germana Oliveira wrote: > Rob: Sorry not to trust you!! > > I already read a little bit of Debian Live, so should i follow : > http://live.debian.net/manual/html/ch02s03.html > > so i can install Debian Live in a HDD, or maybe i go for the USB ... > How m

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 09:30:50PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > Just paid c. $10.00 for a DYNEX Compressed Gas Duster, IOW a 10 oz. can > of compressed air from my local Best Buy. > > Not so much the money per se, but each time I buy one of those, I get > this nagging feeling that I've had been ha

Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:32:10AM -0800, freeman wrote: > I installed apt-cacher because I wanted a way to reliably roll back one > version of a package in testing. This way, if a new version is buggy, the > way the recent xserver-xorg/mesa was for me, and I let it slip by > apt-listbugs, I may p

Re: portable Debian

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:47:44PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:36:23AM EST, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > - Some udev rules try to give unique and *stable* names to devices by > > simply remembering the names they used in the past. On a system that > > you move around on

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:24:19AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > All sound advice and thanks to all for your comments. > > Come to think of it, I should have mentioned that I only routinely use > air on the laptop's keyboard, a flimsy model that vaguely tries to > impersonate the real thing, with en

Re: portable Debian

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 03:59:13PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I've found that deleting 75-persistent-net-generator.rules takes care of > > the network devices. > > Yes, but you should expect this file to re-appear at the next package > upgrade, which is why I opted for an "rm" in /etc/rc.loc

Re: Best Video Capture Device for Debian?

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:08:48AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I purchased a Canon DC410 camcorder and recorded on several mini cd's > during a trip to Europe. Most of the mini cd's I can mount and edit the > foo.vob files with avidemux. Mount fails for one of the mini cd's and > my dvd play

Re: changing file browser lxde

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 08:46:26PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone please inform me how to change the default file browser in > lxde from pcmanfm to nautilus? I'm wanting to do this as I'm blind and > use orca, and it appears nautilus runs better than pcmanfm with > orca. I've

Re: Removing SSH's welcome message (before login)

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 03:36:20PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Hi > > Ok, i was told sshd will keep sessions alive during an upgrade, which > would make sense since they're in memory and i'm upgrading the binary > on disk. Still, after many aptitude upgrades where the ncurses popup > tells me t

Re: Debian-Multimedia

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 03:06:30PM +0100, Stuckey wrote: > Hello, > > I have the debian-multimedia in my sources.list file, and so far I've > just been commenting it in/out whenever I want to install something from > it. I only want certain packages from it, the ones that I can't get from > the

Re: changing file browser lxde

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 07:24:15AM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 08:26:19AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > lxde from pcmanfm to nautilus? I'm wanting to do this as I'm blind and > > > use orca, and it appears nautilus runs better than pcma

Re: XDMCP in GDM Not Working

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:12:48AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > I have GDM XDMCP enabled. However, when I select on the GDM screen to login > to a remote system via XDMCP, the system scans the netowrk and then returns > a claim of No Serving Hosts Were Found. > > I know this is wrong, because anot

Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:42:31AM -0400, Germana Oliveira wrote: > Hi! > > Some service (software) companies have been telling us 'not to use > ldap for user authentication' instead they recommend us to use > Microsoft Active Directory, this because, they say, LDAP is > problematic, talking about

Re: wireless from the command line

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:24:39AM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > I've had a good look around and still can't work this one out. Does > anyone know how to configure wifi from the command line? I'm currently > using wicd, so all my hardware is supported, however, as I rarely start > X I wou

Re: Installing to Flash Drive

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 03:29:51PM +0930, Heddle Weaver wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying a first time exercise, for me, hereattempting to mount a > Lenny dist. onto a 32Gb Corsair flashdrive by way of a MS XP loaded P.C. > > Installation is fine until it comes to where the boot record is to be

Re: Running Debian Lenny from ramdisk

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:43:25PM +0300, Tim Nelson wrote: > Greetings all- > > I've got some questions about Lenny and running from ramdisk. Hoping someone > can shed some light. ;-) > > > I have a very specific Debian Lenny based system I use for communications > (think VoIP and RS232 seria

Re: CUPS broadcasting print queue availability

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 09:10:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I did this once a *long* time ago, but don't remember how. Also, I've > read the (seemingly relevant sections of the sorely lacking) CUPS SAM, > and Googled around to no avail. > > My server has a print queue that looks like

Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:33:05PM -0700, Tech Geek wrote: > So I have a very low end system which has 128 MB of RAM and a 486 based x86 > processor. After installing GNOME on Lenny, as soon as I launch firefox, > opera or any other relatively intensive application the system comes to a > crawl and

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 07:56:10AM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 10 April 2010 22:12:04 Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 10 April 2010 00:42, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > Stephen Powell put forth on 4/8/2010 9:38 PM: > > >> For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head: > > >> > > >>

Re: automate updates in Lenny

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:37:31AM +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Anyway, the cron-apt package does what you want. It is recommended, > > though, to use it only for downloads. > > It does help the OP since he uses apt-get, but what about the people who > normally use aptitu

Re: automate updates in Lenny

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 03:07:31AM +0200, thib wrote: > Chris Hiestand wrote: >> On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> On 2010-04-07 13:52, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: [snip] >>> That's a foolish thing to do, since blind acceptance can lead to a broken >>> system. >> >> Maybe so, but

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 06:15:32PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > what are the major differences btw the three OS. > Debian, Solaris, Freebsd > i know some command change and stuff. but architecture wise. > like unix is propitiatory, and freebst is not not blah blah. > > but why one should c

easy IR blaster?

I upgraded my MythTV backend machine to Wheezy, and again I'm spending way too much time fighting with lirc to get my serial IR blaster to work. Can anyone recommend an IR blaster that is dead simple to get running with lirc. Or is there something besides lirc that I should be using? I'm using

Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:57:54PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Someone in private mail suggested Enlightenment. Openbox was already > on my list. > Desktop environments lean towards over kill. > Enlightenment and awesome will be investigated further. > Then I'd also suggest Fluxbox. By the

Re: mutt in gnome-terminal goes gray!

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:18:46AM -0400, Eric d'Halibut wrote: > I have a gnome-terminal profile configured with a black background. > However, running mutt in it changes the background to gray, a much > lower contrast situation. In all the other terminals I have tried > (xterm, rxvt, urxvt), blac

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

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:48:32AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 22 iul 13, 13:18:50, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > I think I should have worded the question as: > > ~ > > "any way to get the mouse position on the screen" (so that then you > > would then take a second one in order to calcul

Re: package help

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:48:10AM -0400, paulmars wrote: > Im emailed a bug report. I got no response. I been trying to > convince myself to try again, but I have doubts. I dont want to > loose my XP install again. I need dual boot and i also need a > recovery option if Debian fails again, like la

Re: find'ing files containing certain words (all of them) ...

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 05:22:09AM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > the short bash script bellow you can use to find text files > containing one word, but my attempts at trying to make it find more > than one word within the same file haven't been successful > I think you are looking for the 'gre

Re: find'ing files containing certain words (all of them) ...

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:46:34AM -0400, ken wrote: > On 09/21/2013 07:56 AM Rob Owens wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 05:22:09AM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > >> the short bash script bellow you can use to find text files > >>containing one word, but my attempt

Re: Building computer

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 08:11:31PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > Hi Catherine, > > This is regarding the question of what computer hardware to buy that > will work with debian, given that store-bought computers were a > problem this latest time. > > First, what is the name of the computer you actually

Re: Building computer

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 01:45:20PM -0400, Catherine Gramze wrote: > > I contacted MSI to ask if they made a motherboard I could use. Here is the > exchange: > > Me: I want to purchase a motherboard for a Linux computer. I would prefer one > that would accept the new Haswell processor. The BIOS

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Friends, > > For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm as my user, I can not. > I can start it as other users on the system, or with gksu or sudo, > but not for my user. > Have you tried deleting .config/pcmanfm instead of replacin

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 02:14:34PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:38:19PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > > Friends, > > > > > > For some reason, when I try to use pcmanf

Re: Mouse scrolling speed

On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 09:15:18AM -0700, Dolev Farhi wrote: > Hi all > I'm running Debian 6 with GNOME. > My mouse scroll is somewhat slow, It takes about 5-6 scrolls to get to > the bottom of a page. > in the mouse control GUI there is no indication of scrolling speed. > Googling about this broug

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