Re: Where's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUI?

2005-12-30 Thread Chinook
Kent West wrote: Chinook wrote: I've moved up to etch and the 2.6 kernel. In the upgrade I remember selecting "dialog" as such was the best at the time. Now though, I'd like to get back to KDE (login and sessions). I was using KDE before I started the upgrade. I'm sure it's some simple littl

Re: Re: Re: Re: set-up for watching video

2005-12-30 Thread kangja
My set-up for watching video is almost complete now. I generate mplayer from source with 'essential' codecs. After an initial hiccup due to some left-over from kaffeine which was not cleanly removed, mplayer works fine. With a 'skin', I can operate it with a GUI. After installed mozilla-mplayer plu

Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-30 Thread Pete Hicks
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:13:39PM -0600, Tatsuya Kobayashi wrote: >Hi all,(and I'm sorry that I sent wrong mail that only has "# help" > for body.) > >I'm using Debian sarge and kernel is 2.6.8-2. My problem is that >I can't read my USB flash drive. I installed this kernel from >linux26 of boot op

Re: Determine system ver (Debian vs. other Linuxes) at runtime?

2005-12-30 Thread OxyOss
Matt England wrote: > In my cross-platform-programming quests, I'm looking for ways to > determine via my Makefiles which system/platform said build process is > running on, so I can automatically pull in the correct libraries, build > to the correct target directories, use the correct platform-spe

Re: Where's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUI?

2005-12-30 Thread Kent West
Chinook wrote: > I've moved up to etch and the 2.6 kernel. In the upgrade I remember > selecting "dialog" as such was the best at the time. Now though, I'd > like to get back to KDE (login and sessions). I was using KDE before > I started the upgrade. I'm sure it's some simple little thing, but

Unable to install custom kernel

2005-12-30 Thread Yasir Assam
Hi, I recently upgraded from Sarge to Etch. Today I downloaded kernel 2.6.14.5 from kernel.org and built it with make-kpkg as follows: $ make-kpkg clean $ fakeroot make-kpkg --append_to_version -xyz --initrd \ kernel_image $ cd .. # dpkg -i kernel-image*.deb When

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread T
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:43:28 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:13:29PM -0500, T wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need to copy some file from my friend's USB pen drive, but wasn't able >> to because I don't know how to properly mount it. > > The answer depends on which kernel version

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread T
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:40:53 -0500, Chris Howie wrote: >> I tried to mount /dev/sdb1 with type auto and vfat, but failed. Then I >> tried with usbfs. It mounted ok, but I wasn't able to find any meaningful >> files from the mount: > > usbfs is a virtual filesystem, like proc. It gives you inform

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread Bruno Buys
T wrote: Hi, I need to copy some file from my friend's USB pen drive, but wasn't able to because I don't know how to properly mount it. The disk partition looks like this: $ fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 521 MB, 521928704 bytes 17 heads, 59 sectors/track, 1016 cylinders Units = cylinders

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Brian Nelson wrote: > Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> "Edward C. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Why does Debian default to gnome? When I install a recent "testing", >> >> I believe GNOME sprang up partially in response to KDE using Qt, which >> had a non-free license at th

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Dec 29 23:44 -0600]: >> Brian Nelson wrote: >> > s/non-free/GPL-incompatible/ >> >> The problem was that the Windows version was not free while the Linux >> version was. > > I believe the Windows version is still non-free, but tha

Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Purves
On 30/12/05, Daniel Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:47:29PM +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > > > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what > > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older > > than six months. > > > > Is t

Re: Where's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUI?

2005-12-30 Thread Chinook
Chris Howie wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chinook wrote: I've moved up to etch and the 2.6 kernel. In the upgrade I remember selecting "dialog" as such was the best at the time. Now though, I'd like to get back to KDE (login and sessions). I was using KDE before I star

Re: Using par2

2005-12-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 21:24 +0700, David Garamond wrote: > I found out about par2 a few days ago and I think it's absolutely > great. And I think I've grasped the basic concept. But does anyone > know how to use par2 to accomplish the following: > > Suppose I have 5000MB of data. That's a bit over

Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Purves
On 30/12/05, Adam James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 14:47 +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > > > > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what > > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older > > than six months. > > > > Is there a

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2005-12-30 Thread [KS]
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > ..snip. Of course Canon's > manuals have nothing to say about Linux. What Cannon does is strictly > M$, as per > http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html > That is true for most hardware one buys these days. But I think there is a change hapenning. I reci

Re: Firefox and Flash

2005-12-30 Thread [KS]
[KS] wrote: >>Currently, I am running Firefox 1.5 (not the Debian package but the actual >>files from mozilla.org) along with version 7.0 r61 of Macromedia's flash >>plugin and version 1.5.0_05 of Sun's java plugin. >> > > > Oh, I forgot to check the vanilla Firefox version for the flash hiccup

Re: Compatible VoIP software on Debian

2005-12-30 Thread Alessandro Ciorcalo
Chris Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been searching for a while, with no luck, for some combination > of software that will let me have a VoIP conversation with someone > while I am on Debian and they are on Windows. Someone in #debian > said Linphone. It looks nice, but I haven't foun

Re: php4.so, undefined symbol: RAND_load_file (Apache 1.3)

2005-12-30 Thread Julien Lamarche
Bonjour Matt, Merci for your time. Yes I am using Debian. For MapTools' FGS base with Chamelon, I used it's own install script. For libssl0.9.7, libgnutls11 and php4, I re-installed it using apt-get install --reinstall. --- picard:/home/jlam# apt-

Re: Firefox and Flash

2005-12-30 Thread [KS]
Rick Friedman wrote: > On Fri December 30 2005 09:43 am, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >>Here flash has never worked with Firefox under Linux, making the >>browser crash (bug 255860). > > > Strange... I've never had a problem with firefox and flash, java or any other > plugin (with the exception of

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:13:29PM -0500, T wrote: > Hi, > > I need to copy some file from my friend's USB pen drive, but wasn't able > to because I don't know how to properly mount it. > The answer depends on which kernel version you are running, because there has been a switch from something

Re: Determine system ver (Debian vs. other Linuxes) at runtime?

2005-12-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:43:59PM -0500, Chris Howie wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Matt England wrote: > > So I'm left with figuring out much harder ways to tell system revs > > apart. I'm guessing I'm going to have to make an application which does > > nothing but

Re: Building postgresql 8.1.0: trouble finding readline, libz, etc

2005-12-30 Thread Steve Block
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 04:28:54PM -0600, Matt England wrote: While building postgresql 8.1.0 from source on Debian Sarge, I'm finding the postgresql ./configure script can not find libreadling, libz, and associated include/header files. I can make at least some of these problems go away if I

Re: Udev and storage devices

2005-12-30 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:52:39 + "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/28/05, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Howdy list, > > > > I just installed udev on a Debian Sarge box. Everything's working > > great, but now I'm trying to write some rules for a digital camera > > and a us

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 T wrote: > I tried to mount /dev/sdb1 with type auto and vfat, but failed. Then I > tried with usbfs. It mounted ok, but I wasn't able to find any meaningful > files from the mount: usbfs is a virtual filesystem, like proc. It gives you information a

Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread T
Hi, I need to copy some file from my friend's USB pen drive, but wasn't able to because I don't know how to properly mount it. The disk partition looks like this: $ fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 521 MB, 521928704 bytes 17 heads, 59 sectors/track, 1016 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1003 * 51

Building postgresql 8.1.0: trouble finding readline, libz, etc

2005-12-30 Thread Matt England
While building postgresql 8.1.0 from source on Debian Sarge, I'm finding the postgresql ./configure script can not find libreadling, libz, and associated include/header files. I can make at least some of these problems go away if I do things like tell ./configure about CFLAGS=-L/lib and also s

Re: Where's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUI?

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chinook wrote: > I've moved up to etch and the 2.6 kernel. In the upgrade I remember > selecting "dialog" as such was the best at the time. Now though, I'd > like to get back to KDE (login and sessions). I was using KDE before I > started the upgrad

Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-30 Thread Gert Brinkmann
Tatsuya Kobayashi wrote: > I'm using Debian sarge and kernel is 2.6.8-2. My problem is that > I can't read my USB flash drive. I installed this kernel from Do you have "pmount" installed? The user has to be in the "plugdev" group. I am not sure with debian/sarge, but in debian/sid usb-devices are

Where's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUI?

2005-12-30 Thread Chinook
I've moved up to etch and the 2.6 kernel. In the upgrade I remember selecting "dialog" as such was the best at the time. Now though, I'd like to get back to KDE (login and sessions). I was using KDE before I started the upgrade. I'm sure it's some simple little thing, but I can't seem to fin

Re: webcam trust WB-3100p.

2005-12-30 Thread Robert Kopp
--- Mauro Sanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > Someone here is using that webcam with debian? > I'm using debian testing with kernel 2.6.12. > I'm using the usb driver sn9c10x and video for > linux. > Kernel sees the cam but when I run camstream it > search for /dev/video0. > /dev/video0

Re: Determine system ver (Debian vs. other Linuxes) at runtime?

2005-12-30 Thread John Hasler
Matt writes: > Thing is, I don't even know where to start. apt-get install automake autoconf autobook -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compatible VoIP software on Debian

2005-12-30 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:49:11PM -0500, Chris Howie wrote: [...] > I've been searching for a while, with no luck, for some combination of > software > that will let me have a VoIP conversation with someone while I am on Debian > and > they are on Windows. Someone in #debian said Linphone. It

webcam trust WB-3100p.

2005-12-30 Thread Mauro Sanna
Hello. Someone here is using that webcam with debian? I'm using debian testing with kernel 2.6.12. I'm using the usb driver sn9c10x and video for linux. Kernel sees the cam but when I run camstream it search for /dev/video0. /dev/video0 doesn't exist. Udev doesn't create /dev/video0. Why? Thank yo

Compatible VoIP software on Debian

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been searching for a while, with no luck, for some combination of software that will let me have a VoIP conversation with someone while I am on Debian and they are on Windows. Someone in #debian said Linphone. It looks nice, but I haven't found

Re: Determine system ver (Debian vs. other Linuxes) at runtime?

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt England wrote: > So I'm left with figuring out much harder ways to tell system revs > apart. I'm guessing I'm going to have to make an application which does > nothing but evaluate a system and report it's variant (Redhat vs SuSE > vs. Debian) an

Determine system ver (Debian vs. other Linuxes) at runtime?

2005-12-30 Thread Matt England
In my cross-platform-programming quests, I'm looking for ways to determine via my Makefiles which system/platform said build process is running on, so I can automatically pull in the correct libraries, build to the correct target directories, use the correct platform-specific code, etc. Back i

Re: How to install additional fonts ?

2005-12-30 Thread Clive Menzies
On (30/12/05 20:59), Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > I'm using kde + xorg under etch. > > I have 6 fonts (appears under kcontrol->fonts) and suppose more are available. > (currents are: bitstream,courier,cursor,monospace,sans-serif,serif) > How to install additional fonts ? Depending on your p

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge)

2005-12-30 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/30/05, Robert Glueck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just ran a couple of tests on > my media players using common media formats. Here are the > results: > > mov avi wmv rm mpg mp3 > Xine yes yes yes no yesyes I use xine w

Re: Firefox and Flash

2005-12-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 30 December 2005 15:06, Chris Howie wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Gene Heskett wrote: >> I think the next question then is why are some people having huge >> problems with it, and some aren't. Here, its been best described >> as bulletproof. > >We could always

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge)

2005-12-30 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/30/05, Andrew M.A. Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where do you get your w32codecs and Real codecs ?? - helix complains it > can't find the appropriate plugin and xine complains that it can't find > cook.6.so or some such. You can get w32codecs from deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge)

2005-12-30 Thread Robert Glueck
Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I'm being schizo and replying to myself, again. Xine > seems to actually > be doing the job, at least with the w32codec installed. > (I will try it > w/o the codec tomorrow.) So far it is the only player > that is playing a > .mov file. How does it do on other file type

Re: Firefox and Flash

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gene Heskett wrote: > I think the next question then is why are some people having huge > problems with it, and some aren't. Here, its been best described as > bulletproof. We could always make a little web poll. Are you having problems with plugi

How to install additional fonts ?

2005-12-30 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, I'm using kde + xorg under etch. I have 6 fonts (appears under kcontrol->fonts) and suppose more are available. (currents are: bitstream,courier,cursor,monospace,sans-serif,serif) How to install additional fonts ? Thanks. Bye, Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge)

2005-12-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 11:00:38AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 12/30/05, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm being schizo and replying to myself, again. Xine seems to actually > > be doing the job, at least with the w32codec installed. (I will try it > > w/o the codec tomorrow.)

Re: Firefox and Flash

2005-12-30 Thread Rick Friedman
On Fri December 30 2005 09:43 am, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Here flash has never worked with Firefox under Linux, making the > browser crash (bug 255860). Strange... I've never had a problem with firefox and flash, java or any other plugin (with the exception of the mplayer plugin). Currently, I

Re: php4.so, undefined symbol: RAND_load_file (Apache 1.3)

2005-12-30 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 12:33 -0500, Julien Lamarche wrote: > Bonjour, > > I have an undefined symbol in php4.so > > # apachectl configtest > Syntax error on line 245 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: > Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so into > server: /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so: undefined sy

Re: Re: Firefox and Flash

2005-12-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-12-30 13:37:22 -0500, Chris Howie wrote: > As far as I can tell, both firefox and mozilla have buggy plugin > handling, no matter what the plugin might be. Maybe flash does > something different that cause firefox and mozilla to freak out > more. Who knows. > > Only think I do know is that

Re: Firefox and Flash

2005-12-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 30 December 2005 13:37, Chris Howie wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >As far as I can tell, both firefox and mozilla have buggy plugin > handling, no matter what the plugin might be. Maybe flash does > something different that cause firefox and mozilla to freak ou

Re: Memory usage (avoid swapping, top accuracy...)

2005-12-30 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 30.12.2005 at 19:33 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2005-12-30 10:48:32 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Presumably, you *need* apache2 & innd running on a /laptop/? > > Yes, precisely because this is a laptop (i.e. it is sometimes offline). > Also, I currently have only the laptop her

Re: Disabling Firefox Gestures

2005-12-30 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/30/05, Barak A. Pearlmutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have any such extension installed. Really, I promise! At one > time mozgest was installed, but about:config has mozgest.browser=false. It might not have uninstalled cleanly. You could check this by either creating a new prof

Re: Re: Firefox and Flash

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As far as I can tell, both firefox and mozilla have buggy plugin handling, no matter what the plugin might be. Maybe flash does something different that cause firefox and mozilla to freak out more. Who knows. Only think I do know is that it needs to

Re: Memory usage (avoid swapping, top accuracy...)

2005-12-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-12-30 10:48:32 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Presumably, you *need* apache2 & innd running on a /laptop/? Yes, precisely because this is a laptop (i.e. it is sometimes offline). Also, I currently have only the laptop here; so, I have the choice between having the news locally or read/post af

Re: Firefox font support on Sarge

2005-12-30 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:55:47AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > I just did a Sarge install and trying to get fonts up to where they > are on my Sid machines. After the base install and installing > Firefox I noticed poor font support and often missing symbols. > > I started blindly throwing font

Re: spoofing myself without meaning to [SOLVED]

2005-12-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 09:29:05AM +0100, Philippe Marzouk wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:49:58PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I have a box, wheat, connected to the internet and my local network. > > Another box, corn, is on the local network. > > I'm running DNS on wheat and have two domains

Re: Disabling Firefox Gestures

2005-12-30 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
> If you uninstall whatever extension is causing the gestures (and > restart Firefox, of course), you should be set. I don't have any such extension installed. Really, I promise! At one time mozgest was installed, but about:config has mozgest.browser=false. This is the stock Debian testing pack

php4.so, undefined symbol: RAND_load_file (Apache 1.3)

2005-12-30 Thread Julien Lamarche
Bonjour, I have an undefined symbol in php4.so # apachectl configtest Syntax error on line 245 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so into server: /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so: undefined symbol: RAND_load_file I just install MapTools' FGS base with Chamelon. I

millienniumsecuritysystems.com now links to securitycamera4u.com

2005-12-30 Thread shirley kirk
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Re: Firefox and Flash

2005-12-30 Thread [KS]
Lesmond Le Grise wrote: > Have you tried using the flash plugin from the marillat repository - > flashplayer-mozilla? I haven't had any trouble with it (running firefox > 1.5 on sarge backported from sid). > > Happens with both the flashplugin-nonfree and flashplayer-mozilla. I checked both befor

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2005-12-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
[KS] wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: And another thing: when connecting the USB cable, make sure you have the camera in *playback* mode. If you don't, there won't be any connection and you'll be checking your cables all over the place, like I did. I don't why Canon can

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2005-12-30 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 04:24:07PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > I keep reading this, but xcdroast and so on still complain every time > that I should use SCSI emulation even though the kernel is 2.6.x. Is > some other adjustment or setting needed instead? In the past, people on this list have s

Re: Memory usage (avoid swapping, top accuracy...)

2005-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 17:23 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to have some information about memory usage and how to > improve it. > > First, I have a PowerBook under Debian, with 256 MB RAM (physical > memory) and 512 MB swap. As this machine often swaps, I did some > tests, doing

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2005-12-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bryan G wrote: i found this, I haven't installed it yet but it claims to replace realplayer without the problems of realplayer taking over your PC http://www.codecguide.com/download_real.htm I find that mplayer is a far better substitute for what I used to use RealPlayer for: mp3 streams. 1

Memory usage (avoid swapping, top accuracy...)

2005-12-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, I'd like to have some information about memory usage and how to improve it. First, I have a PowerBook under Debian, with 256 MB RAM (physical memory) and 512 MB swap. As this machine often swaps, I did some tests, doing the sum Mem used + Swap used with the "top" command: Booting and logging

Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 12:09 +, Adam James wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 14:47 +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what > > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older > > than six months. > >

MPEG to FLV (flash video) converter ?

2005-12-30 Thread Hannes Mayer
Hi all! Is there a MPEG to FLV (flash video) converter for linux ? I've googled me silly, but didn't find one so far. Thanks and best regards, Hannes.

Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 13:05 +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > On 30/12/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 11:41 +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > > > On 30/12/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > If person system: it's *trash*, don't store old stuff in it

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2005-12-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday, 29 December 2005 at 22:12:26 -0700, Jules Dubois wrote: [...] > SCSI emulation is not required in v2.6. I keep reading this, but xcdroast and so on still complain every time that I should use SCSI emulation even though the kernel is 2.6.x. Is some other adjustment or setting needed

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 08:17 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Dec 29 23:44 -0600]: > > Brian Nelson wrote: [snip] > > I believe the Windows version is still non-free, but that doesn't > matter to Debian. I've not kept close track so I don't know if anyone > has

Re: Disabling Firefox Gestures

2005-12-30 Thread Greg Norris
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:22:38PM +, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > Anyone have any idea how to completely disable firefox gestures? Disable or uninstall whichever extension is providing gesture support (All-in-One Gestures, in my case) via Tools/Extensions, and restart Firefox. -- To UNS

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge)

2005-12-30 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/30/05, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm being schizo and replying to myself, again. Xine seems to actually > be doing the job, at least with the w32codec installed. (I will try it > w/o the codec tomorrow.) So far it is the only player that is playing a > .mov file. How does

Re: Disabling Firefox Gestures

2005-12-30 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/30/05, Barak A. Pearlmutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have any idea how to completely disable firefox gestures? It > seems like it should be straightforward, but I've been unable to > figure it out, despite compulsive googling, consulting pretty much > everything I could think of,

Re: Problem Resolving names into ip addresses

2005-12-30 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 09:43 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 09:07 AM 12/30/2005, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > >you can use tcpdump to see if (and who) you are querying for your name > >resolutions: > > > ># tcpdump -tqn dst port 53 > > I'm trying to learn a bit here and although name res is workin

Disabling Firefox Gestures

2005-12-30 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
Anyone have any idea how to completely disable firefox gestures? It seems like it should be straightforward, but I've been unable to figure it out, despite compulsive googling, consulting pretty much everything I could think of, repeated twiddling with about:config, etc. I'm about to read the sou

Re: [OT] MPEG2 on Windows (was Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

2005-12-30 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 08:58:17PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:45, Ron Johnson wrote: kino (which is a non-linear video editor) *might* be able to do it, as onw of it's side functions. Tangential on this topic, I encoded a movie from and AVI created by my dig

Re: Problem Resolving names into ip addresses

2005-12-30 Thread Steve Block
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 10:08:50PM +1000, Ken Robinson wrote: Hi, I am a relative newbie when it comes to debian so please excuse any assumption or lack of etiquette when posting. Anyway, here goes. I have a box connected to an ADSL modem / DHCP server / NAT. I upgraded to unstable version from

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
* John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Dec 30 09:02 -0600]: > Nate Bargmann writes: > > As I recall, the license on the Qt library was considered DFSG non-free > > because any source changes were only allowed to be distributed as > > patches--a restriction that violates the DFSG. > > The Qt licen

Re: Firefox and Flash

2005-12-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-12-30 01:18:16 -0500, [KS] wrote: > I have noticed that whenever I do something with a flash animation and > try to browse to another page, it freezes Firefox and the only thing I > can do is to kill it and restart. Anyone else experiencing similar > problems? It was with 1.0.7 and is still

Re: Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

2005-12-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-12-29 19:13:26 -0500, Stefhen Hovland wrote: > i think ifrename will do what you are asking, you can specify that > eth0 always be bound to x, and eth1 always bound to y, etc.. > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/ifrename Otherwise this can be done with a simple mapping, e.g. aut

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-30 Thread John Hasler
Nate Bargmann writes: > As I recall, the license on the Qt library was considered DFSG non-free > because any source changes were only allowed to be distributed as > patches--a restriction that violates the DFSG. The Qt license was DFSG-free and Qt was in Debian. However, the license was incompat

Re: Problem Resolving names into ip addresses

2005-12-30 Thread Marty Landman
At 09:07 AM 12/30/2005, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: you can use tcpdump to see if (and who) you are querying for your name resolutions: # tcpdump -tqn dst port 53 I'm trying to learn a bit here and although name res is working on my box have done an apt-get install tcpdump but when trying this ge

[OOT] windows multimedia format incompatibilities (was: Re: [OT] MPEG2 on Windows)

2005-12-30 Thread Thomas Jollans
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: >On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:45, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >>kino (which is a non-linear video editor) *might* be able to do >>it, as onw of it's side functions. >> >> > >Tangential on this topic, I encoded a movie from and AVI created by my >digital camera on my Sar

Re: DebianKnowledgeBase

2005-12-30 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/12/30, Mitja Podreka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > > >I ask you to go to http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKnowledgeBase, take a > >look at it and tell what you think about. If you like it would be grat > >if you contribute to page. > > > Good and helpful idea! > I will check the r

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Dec 29 23:44 -0600]: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > s/non-free/GPL-incompatible/ > > The problem was that the Windows version was not free while the Linux > version was. I believe the Windows version is still non-free, but that doesn't matter to Debian. I've

Re: Problem Resolving names into ip addresses

2005-12-30 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 22:08 +1000, Ken Robinson wrote: > Hi, > I am a relative newbie when it comes to debian so please excuse any > assumption or lack of etiquette when posting. Anyway, here goes. > > I have a box connected to an ADSL modem / DHCP server / NAT. > > I upgraded to unstable version

Re: undo the command "apt-get clean"

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you are somehow able to mount the other box's / on your box, say over NFS, you can apt-get install debootstrap and do something like: debootstrap sarge /mnt/whatever You'll get a *very* minimal install of sarge. Then chroot to it (chroot /mnt/wha

Re: DebianKnowledgeBase

2005-12-30 Thread Mitja Podreka
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: I ask you to go to http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKnowledgeBase, take a look at it and tell what you think about. If you like it would be grat if you contribute to page. Good and helpful idea! I will check the resources listed on the page one day, when I find more time or

Re: Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Openoffice.org version 2 is wanted by Sarge users whereas it's only currently > in testing (to be Etch when released) and unstable. AFAIK it's not in etch currently, only unstable. Correct me if I'm wrong. - -- Chris Howie

Re: undo the command "apt-get clean"

2005-12-30 Thread Srinidhi B S
Hi, On 30 Dec 2005 02:44:46 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I download these files again? > (I want to set up a second linux box, without internet connection. > Therefore I want to reuse these cached files) If you have the list of packages that you want to download,

undo the command "apt-get clean"

2005-12-30 Thread mastrasser
Hello, Unfortunatly I have done an "apt-get clean", which removes all downloaded files from /var/cache/apt/archives. How can I download these files again? (I want to set up a second linux box, without internet connection. Therefore I want to reuse these cached files) Thanks Martin -- To UNSUBSC

Problem Resolving names into ip addresses

2005-12-30 Thread Ken Robinson
Hi,I am a relative newbie when it comes to debian so please excuse anyassumption or lack of etiquette when posting. Anyway, here goes.I have a box connected to an ADSL modem / DHCP server / NAT. I upgraded to unstable version from a knoppix 4.0 base. This was to getXorg and to resolve some graphics

Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-30 Thread Adam James
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 14:47 +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > Hello, > > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older > than six months. > > Is there any functionality built into courier or should I make a

??? module dependencies

2005-12-30 Thread weiyun lv
Hello, I am working with rtai and have some problem with module dependencies. It is like this: #insmod drvmng2.o #insmod drv2.o #insmod drv3.o I got this kind of dependencies in /proc/modules : --- drv34612 0 (unused) drv2

Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?

2005-12-30 Thread Wackojacko
Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 15:32 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 22:01 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote: [snip] You need to convert them to MPEG2, then create special table-of- content files, and put them all in a defined directory structure.

DebianKnowledgeBase

2005-12-30 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Hi list, When I started using Debian a big problem was to understand where to find informations. When I found a new source of information it sounded always difficult to understand how to use it properly. To solve this problem I am writing on wiki.debian.org a page named DebianKnowledgeBase, that

Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2005-12-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:45:55PM -0600, Matt England wrote: > Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems: > > Is this feasible? > > I'm not talking about package management...just the raw, binary. > Backward compatibility is not guaranteed. That's why, for example, some packages are back-po

Re: Firefox and Flash

2005-12-30 Thread break thestate
> mplayer-mozilla and java both stand > a good chance of crashing it too. mplayer-mozilla often crashes my firefox too.

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2005-12-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
Terence wrote: Does this work under linux? All I see on the site specifies "Win95/96/2000/XP" or "only Win2000/XP". Try Google for "Helix" Actually, I just tried xine. So far, it has handled all file formats that I have thrown at it, including Real Media live streaming audio and canned

Re: Re: recover ext3 deletion

2005-12-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 05:43:12PM +0400, Danielyan, Ashot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > > > > I've run > > rm /*/* > > as root > > Can I recover all deleted files? Yes. From your regular, updated, comprehensive system backups. Ext3 doesn't have an undeletion feature and by its d

Re: Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

2005-12-30 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Svante Signell wrote: With the new way of device creation and module loading (udev, discover etc) my ethernet modules (3c59x,8139too) are loaded in different order with kernels 2.6.12 and 2.6.14. For 2.6.14 3c59x is loaded first corresponding to eth0 and then 8139too corresponding to eth1. With k

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