Re: 3-D graphing software for Linux?

2007-12-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 01/12/2007, Oscar Blanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have a look on this website > http://www.scilab.org/ > > This is scilab, designed in France. It is a numerical tool (and seldom > symbolic), so it means that was done for high computing capabilities. > > After installing, you will have a comm

changing font for xclock

2007-12-01 Thread Mike Polyakov
Hi, I've been trying to change the font for xclock to something smaller, and nothing seems to work. Did anyone ever succeed in setting a different font for xclock? Could anyone help me out with this if they know how to do it. I've tried 7x14 type fonts and fonts from xfontset with -font and -fn opt

Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

2007-12-01 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 06:42:09PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I use fluxbox most of the time. But, when I plug in my hp315 > photosmart camera, I rely upon gnome to find it, and automagically > mount it for me. Is it possible to completely remove gnome, and just > mount this camera (o

Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

2007-12-01 Thread Marty
Samuel Bächler wrote: Hi Everyone Does anyone know what is going wrong on my system or what I am doing wrong or else? To mount a memory stick I do: # mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb ... # ls /mnt/usb boot bootmgr MFGSTAT preboot recovery SCRREC.VER swwork System Volume Information tvtos windo

Re: Is it exist a mailing-list for console only users ?

2007-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/07 18:31, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 03:08:03AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: >> Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:56:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Hard drives aren't *that* ex

Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

2007-12-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Dec 1, 2007 6:03 PM, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If it is mass-storage, you just mount it with a command like "mount > > -t auto /dev/sda1 /media/usb" (mount point and device might be > > different). Or you can put a line in /etc/fstab : > > > /dev/sda1 /media/usb auto no

Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

2007-12-01 Thread Angus Auld
--- Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I use fluxbox most of the time. But, when I > plug in my hp315 > photosmart camera, I rely upon gnome to find it, and > automagically > mount it for me. Is it possible to completely > remove gnome, and just > mount this camera (or other US

Re: server login with SSH

2007-12-01 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 09:59:53PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > Ken Irving wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 09:49:55AM -0500, phillinux wrote: > >> I set-up a plain vanilla, samba (intranet) server for a computer lab in my > >> school. I've done this before with SuSE and have switch

Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

2007-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/07 19:49, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Since the "drive letter" of removable devices is subject to change, >> I now use UUID values in /etc/fstab instead of /dev/sd??. (Except >> for /boot and /.) >> >> # blkid /dev/sdX

Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

2007-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/07 17:42, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I use fluxbox most of the time. But, when I plug in my hp315 > photosmart camera, I rely upon gnome to find it, and automagically > mount it for me. Is it possible to completely remove gnome, and jus

Re: Is it exist a mailing-list for console only users ?

2007-12-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:14:56AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/29/07 08:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:56:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> Hard drives aren't *that* expensive, are they? > > > > This is a pervasive attitude. Yes, unless you have a recent

Re: Something accessing hard drive

2007-12-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:24:02AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have set my hard drive to standby after a given time through laptop- > mode. The hd actually passes to standby mode but only for half a > second or so after which it spins up again. If I issue hdparm -y /dev/ > hda the same beha

Re: norton commander

2007-12-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 07:27:17PM +, steef wrote: > a long time ago, in 1993, i had a 386 box with dos, wp51 and the norton > commander. with the norton commander i could talk to a person behind > the key-board of another computer and send my workfiles (made with > wp5.1, that marvellous e

Re: server login with SSH

2007-12-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 11:58:12AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 09:49:55AM -0500, phillinux wrote: > > I set-up a plain vanilla, samba (intranet) server for a computer lab in my > > school. I've done this before with SuSE and have switched to Debian Net > > install. > > > >

Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-12-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:32:52PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > Sometimes, when I type in the console, about 40% of the keystrokes are > ignored. > If I type (for example) "startx" and hit enter, I'll see "sart" or somesuch > and > the command fails. In that same case, typing "sttartxx" and e

Re: OT: Programming Robots

2007-12-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:59:47PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > On 30/11/2007, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My college student grandson says he wants to study programming robots. > > Aside from all the commercial (game?) kits are there serious Linux > > applications that he should

Re: Is it exist a mailing-list for console only users ?

2007-12-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 03:08:03AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:56:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > Hard drives aren't *that* expensive, are they? > > > > This is a pervasive attitude. Yes, unless you have a recent bo

Re: Conversion of file Contacts.cdb into other format

2007-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/07 18:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From my Nokia mobile phone's filesystem I fetched the file > Contacts.cdb, containing > the addressbook. > > Can anyone suggest how to convert it into a readable format, e.g. > text? First thing to do is

Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

2007-12-01 Thread Mark Grieveson
> If it is mass-storage, you just mount it with a command like "mount > -t auto /dev/sda1 /media/usb" (mount point and device might be > different). Or you can put a line in /etc/fstab : > /dev/sda1 /media/usb auto noauto,users 00 > Then you could just say "mount /media/usb". Thanks

Re: server login with SSH

2007-12-01 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
Ken Irving wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 09:49:55AM -0500, phillinux wrote: >> I set-up a plain vanilla, samba (intranet) server for a computer lab in my >> school. I've done this before with SuSE and have switched to Debian Net >> install. >> >> I have the kids SSH into their accounts to chan

Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

2007-12-01 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: Since the "drive letter" of removable devices is subject to change, I now use UUID values in /etc/fstab instead of /dev/sd??. (Except for /boot and /.) # blkid /dev/sdXY # vi /etc/fstab (Replace /dev/sdXY with UUID="") Also, if you have hal installed, GNOME & KDE should aut

Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

2007-12-01 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:42:09 -0500 Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, I use kmix for a volume control, because this seems the only > application that provides a small speaker applet on the fluxbox panel > to control sounds. I'd like to get rid of it, and the kde libs that > accompan

Conversion of file Contacts.cdb into other format

2007-12-01 Thread rodolfo . medina
>From my Nokia mobile phone's filesystem I fetched the file Contacts.cdb, containing the addressbook. Can anyone suggest how to convert it into a readable format, e.g. text? Thanks Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

2007-12-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Dec 1, 2007 3:42 PM, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I use fluxbox most of the time. But, when I plug in my hp315 > photosmart camera, I rely upon gnome to find it, and automagically > mount it for me. Is it possible to completely remove gnome, and just > mount this camera

Re: cdrom not working after kernel update

2007-12-01 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 13:58:40 -0800 (PST) tharanga Wijethilake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I am sort of new to deabian was using kernel 2.6.18 and recently compiled the > kernel 2.6.23.8 to get the mac80211 system for the wireless support. but > after that when I boot from the new kerne

Re: what's wrong with real.com? I can't download reaplayer for Linux

2007-12-01 Thread Serena Cantor
Learning to use new software takes time. Last time I used mencoder and ffmpeg, they have video/audio synchronization problem, according their manual. Now I'm happy with real producer and player. --- Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 30, 2007 8:55 PM, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTE

volume mgmt w/o gnome

2007-12-01 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I use fluxbox most of the time. But, when I plug in my hp315 photosmart camera, I rely upon gnome to find it, and automagically mount it for me. Is it possible to completely remove gnome, and just mount this camera (or other USB storage devices) myself? Or, and even better, find a utilit

Re: what's wrong with real.com? I can't download reaplayer for Linux

2007-12-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Nov 30, 2007 8:55 PM, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I follow links at real.com, > No matter how hard I try, I can't download it. In my opinion, even better than using the RealPlayer at debian-multimedia, would be to get a recent mplayer, ffmpeg and w32codecs from the same place. I

Re: Firestarter

2007-12-01 Thread David
Darko wrote: snip But where from the menu i can't find it on my kde Install the package 'menu', then after any apt update/upgrade, type 'update-menus' while still at the command line and firestarter is one of the many packages that conform to that requirement. if i try from /usr/sbin/

cdrom not working after kernel update

2007-12-01 Thread tharanga Wijethilake
Hi all, I am sort of new to deabian was using kernel 2.6.18 and recently compiled the kernel 2.6.23.8 to get the mac80211 system for the wireless support. but after that when I boot from the new kernel (I have both kernels running) but the cdrom can not mounted for some reason. Then I reinstalle

Re: 3-D graphing software for Linux?

2007-12-01 Thread Oscar Blanco
Have a look on this website http://www.scilab.org/ This is scilab, designed in France. It is a numerical tool (and seldom symbolic), so it means that was done for high computing capabilities. After installing, you will have a command line as in any console; there you can type the corresponding in

Re: what's wrong with real.com? I can't download reaplayer for Linux

2007-12-01 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 13:18:32 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I follow links at real.com, > No matter how hard I try, I can't download it. I would forget about the links at real.com, and instead, (assuming you're using Etch), add "deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main" to your /etc

Re: NVIDIA and mplayer now working

2007-12-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat December 1 2007, David Fox wrote: > Yeah, every time you update the kernel you have to redo the nvidia > driver for that kernel, it's a hassle, but not too terribly difficult > (I finally got it working with the nvidia in the 'sid' repository) but > I am still using the same kernel (2.6.22-2

Re: server login with SSH

2007-12-01 Thread Bill Smith
Jochen Schulz wrote: phillinux: I set-up a plain vanilla, samba (intranet) server for a computer lab in my school. I've done this before with SuSE and have switched to Debian Net install. If you have started with a minimal installation, you probably don't have openssh-server installed

Re: NVIDIA and mplayer now working

2007-12-01 Thread David Fox
On 12/1/07, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ~$ uname -a > Linux paulandcilla 2.6.22-3-686 #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 08:32:57 UTC 2007 i686 > GNU/Linux Yeah, every time you update the kernel you have to redo the nvidia driver for that kernel, it's a hassle, but not too terribly difficult (I

Re: server login with SSH

2007-12-01 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 09:49:55AM -0500, phillinux wrote: > I set-up a plain vanilla, samba (intranet) server for a computer lab in my > school. I've done this before with SuSE and have switched to Debian Net > install. > > I have the kids SSH into their accounts to change their samba passwords

Re: apt-file

2007-12-01 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
On Dec 1, 2007 2:21 PM, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how do you use apt-file? > > I'm trying to use 'apt-file find pg_resetxlog' and it returns nothing > > but this fails to: > which psql --> /usr/bin/psql > > apt-file find psql --> nothing > > Well, I know something put that file ther

apt-file

2007-12-01 Thread Tom Allison
how do you use apt-file? I'm trying to use 'apt-file find pg_resetxlog' and it returns nothing but this fails to: which psql --> /usr/bin/psql apt-file find psql --> nothing Well, I know something put that file there because I installed it using aptitude. I *really* need to find that file,

NVIDIA and mplayer now working

2007-12-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
well, I started over again, blew away my xorg.conf and reran the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg1.run when I rebooted I realized that it looks like they snuck another kernel update in on me: ~$ uname -a Linux paulandcilla 2.6.22-3-686 #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 08:32:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux running De

Re: Why ext3 doesn't need defragmentation ?

2007-12-01 Thread Rob Sims
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 02:53:32PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > David Brodbeck wrote: > > > > On Nov 30, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > No. The NTFS file system does not need defragmentation. > > all file systems can use a defragmentor ...description of interleaving deleted... >

Re: weird empty dir

2007-12-01 Thread strawks
> $ du -sh dir > 5.2Mdir > $ cd dir > $ ls -altr > total 5236 > drwxr-xr-x 6 user user 4096 2007-01-19 14:41 .. > drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 5345280 2007-12-01 11:12 . [...] > Weird or not? This directory has probably contained a lot of files (more than 40), making it that big (space for file

weird empty dir

2007-12-01 Thread user local
$ du -sh dir 5.2Mdir $ cd dir $ ls -altr total 5236 drwxr-xr-x 6 user user 4096 2007-01-19 14:41 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 5345280 2007-12-01 11:12 . $ cd $ mkdir foo $ ls -altr foo drwxr-xr-x 72 user user 3800 2007-12-01 20:42 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 48 2007-12-01 20:42 . $ du -sh foo 0f

ntfs-3g and latest "Etch" (stable)

2007-12-01 Thread Donald R. Sutter
Kelly, Thanks! Backports worked perfectly. I have full access to my NTFS drives now. Don -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: increase space in /tmp [SOLVED]

2007-12-01 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 30 November 2007 01:29 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 05:45:35AM -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Is it possible to increase the space available in /tmp without doing the > > backup/repartition/reinstall/restore dance? > > > > I'm trying to backup a dvd using k9

Re: increase space in /tmp

2007-12-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 06:19:41AM -0800, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > If k9copy reads an environment variable (usually TEMP or TMP) to find Sorry, my brain was in Windows-land. Of course here we use TMPDIR. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

2007-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/07 10:53, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Samuel Bächler wrote: >> Hi Everyone >> >> Does anyone know what is going wrong on my system or >> what I am doing wrong or else? >> >> To mount a memory stick I do: >> >> # mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

Resolved [sort of]: wireless gets dhcp/gw, but route complains about gw

2007-12-01 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: ... using a D-Link DI-514 wireless router I just bought. The Debian laptop gets a DHCP address, but I can't ping anything outside the laptop, not even the router. After additional testing, I've decided the problem is that the router is faulty. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

mplayer & vlc don't work, totem does

2007-12-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
I have a feeling that this issue is related to my not being able to install the NVIDIA driver. When I try to start either vlc or mplayer via the konsole I get this: ~$ vlc VLC media player 0.8.6a Janus Segmentation fault and it crashes. I think I have tried reinstalling both, with no success.. a

Re: server login with SSH

2007-12-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
phillinux: > > I set-up a plain vanilla, samba (intranet) server for a computer lab in my > school. I've done this before with SuSE and have switched to Debian Net > install. If you have started with a minimal installation, you probably don't have openssh-server installed. > I have the kids SSH

Re: Recommend good notes/calendar plugin/client/suites ?

2007-12-01 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Michael Yang wrote: > Hi All: > > I'm on the lenny/sid, with xfce4 desktop. > I'd like have some useful plugins for my desktop, to write sticky notes, > to schedule calendar events and TODO tasks. It could be always displayed > on the screen and better to have option of auto-hide. > > What are y

Re: perl Time::HiRes debian package?

2007-12-01 Thread Shams Fantar
Patter wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:00:12 +0100, Mark Quitoriano wrote: is there a deb package for perl Time::HiRes? Its in the core perl package. It doesn't exist a debian package for that module because perl modules are generally in the perl package. To use Time::HiRes, read

Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

2007-12-01 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Samuel Bächler wrote: Hi Everyone Does anyone know what is going wrong on my system or what I am doing wrong or else? To mount a memory stick I do: # mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb Are you sure /dev/sda1 is your usb stick and not your primary hard disk? Do a tail -f /var/log/syslog and t

Re: Recommend good notes/calendar plugin/client/suites ?

2007-12-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:38:34 +0800 Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for info! > > After a round of search in the package list, I got "gdeskcal" and > "xfce4-notes-plugin" to manage my schedules. > "gdeskcal" is configurable and the event can be shown when mouse is > moved over t

Re: server login with SSH

2007-12-01 Thread Shams Fantar
phillinux wrote: I set-up a plain vanilla, samba (intranet) server for a computer lab in my school. I've done this before with SuSE and have switched to Debian Net install. I have the kids SSH into their accounts to change their samba passwords but the connection is now being refused by the s

Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

2007-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/07 09:26, Samuel Bächler wrote: > Hi Everyone > > Does anyone know what is going wrong on my system or > what I am doing wrong or else? > > To mount a memory stick I do: > > # mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb > ... > # ls /mnt/usb > boot >

Re: what's wrong with real.com? I can't download reaplayer for Linux

2007-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/07 04:03, Serena Cantor wrote: > You can go to: > > http://www.real.com/linux/ > > and click download link there to see if there's problem. It works on Saturday at 10:30AM CST. I was having problems last night for a few hourse accessing or

Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

2007-12-01 Thread Robert Jerrard
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 16:26 +0100, Samuel Bächler wrote: > Hi Everyone > > Does anyone know what is going wrong on my system or > what I am doing wrong or else? > > To mount a memory stick I do: > > # mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb > ... > # ls /mnt/usb > boot > bootmgr > MFGSTAT > preboot >

Fwd: Re: server login with SSH

2007-12-01 Thread phillinux
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:00:57 -0500 To: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: phillinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: server login with SSH At 10:14 AM 12/1/2007, you wrote: phillinux wrote: I set-up a plain vanilla, samba (intranet) server for a computer lab in my school. I've done this b

Re: Recommend good notes/calendar plugin/client/suites ?

2007-12-01 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/01/2007 10:38 AM, Michael Yang wrote: > Thanks for info! > > After a round of search in the package list, I got "gdeskcal" and > "xfce4-notes-plugin" to manage my schedules. > "gdeskcal" is configurable and the event can be shown when mouse is > moved over the specified date. > "orage" is go

Can't to install postgresql-7.4 server on Etch

2007-12-01 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! On my Debian Etch server I can't to install postgresql-7.4 server. I get the error message: -> Setting up postgresql-7.4 (7.4.17-0etch1) ... Starting PostgreSQL 7.4 database server: main* pg_controldata: could not open file "/var/lib/postgresql/7.4/main/glob

Re: dmcrypt on an existing partition (firewire external disk)

2007-12-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
this belongs on the list... On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:47:05PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > nice guide. it was definitely part of my list of open tabs when I was > > setting up my encrypted laptop. He's got some other good ones there as > > well. > > > > A > >

Re: Recommend good notes/calendar plugin/client/suites ?

2007-12-01 Thread Michael Yang
Thanks for info! After a round of search in the package list, I got "gdeskcal" and "xfce4-notes-plugin" to manage my schedules. "gdeskcal" is configurable and the event can be shown when mouse is moved over the specified date. "orage" is good, but seems it has to double click the date entry to

Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

2007-12-01 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hi Everyone Does anyone know what is going wrong on my system or what I am doing wrong or else? To mount a memory stick I do: # mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb ... # ls /mnt/usb boot bootmgr MFGSTAT preboot recovery SCRREC.VER swwork System Volume Information tvtos windows So, I can't see wha

Re: Gnome desktop and digital camera: How?

2007-12-01 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:27:40 -0300 Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El sáb, 01-12-2007 a las 10:40 +0100, Dan H escribió: > > Hello, > > > > whenever I plug in my digital camera (Canon S50), a window pops up > > on the Gnome desktop asking me if I wanted to download the photos > > to

Re: server login with SSH

2007-12-01 Thread Kent West
phillinux wrote: I set-up a plain vanilla, samba (intranet) server for a computer lab in my school. I've done this before with SuSE and have switched to Debian Net install. I have the kids SSH into their accounts to change their samba passwords but the connection is now being refused by the s

Re: server login with SSH

2007-12-01 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
phillinux wrote: > I set-up a plain vanilla, samba (intranet) server for a computer lab in > my school. I've done this before with SuSE and have switched to Debian > Net install. > > I have the kids SSH into their accounts to change their samba passwords > but the connection is now being refused b

Re: emacs22 black text on white bg from menu but white text on black bg from console

2007-12-01 Thread Tom Rauchenwald
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a strange setup issue. > > I removed my emacs settings to redo them so now there are no theme commands > (clean .emacs). Now, when I open emacs from the menus or file manager (thunar) > it comes up in a dark text on light background theme (not very

Re: emacs22 black text on white bg from menu but white text on black bg from console

2007-12-01 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El sáb, 01-12-2007 a las 14:55 +0200, Micha Feigin escribió: > I have a strange setup issue. > > I removed my emacs settings to redo them so now there are no theme commands > (clean .emacs). Now, when I open emacs from the menus or file manager (thunar) > it comes up in a dark text on light backgr

server login with SSH

2007-12-01 Thread phillinux
I set-up a plain vanilla, samba (intranet) server for a computer lab in my school. I've done this before with SuSE and have switched to Debian Net install. I have the kids SSH into their accounts to change their samba passwords but the connection is now being refused by the server. there is n

Re: Gnome desktop and digital camera: How?

2007-12-01 Thread Dan H
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:27:40 -0300 Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the other hand, the program executed by gnome-volume-manager is > gnome-volume-manager-gthumb which in fact asks for a destination > for the pictures (in lenny). In etch it doesn't. It just goes away after a while

Re: apache2 freezes @sarge

2007-12-01 Thread Shams Fantar
Miro Dietiker wrote: Hi list I trapped into an apache2 freeze thing (debian sarge, apache2 libapache2-mod-php4) After certain time (from few minutes to many hours) apache simply freezes. Freeze meaning here: Processes still present but no processing time on them. Each request is not respond

Re: vi issue in etch

2007-12-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While you are at it, consider using vim instead of vi unless you have a good > reason not to do so. this statement leads naturally into the next: > Well, therein lies my lack of experience! I didn't even know there was a > difference, vim is what I

Re: Installing xfce on existing Etch gnome install

2007-12-01 Thread Micha Feigin
No issues, they have no problem existing in parallel, I've seem machines with xfce, gnome, kde, fvwm and a few others in parallel. I personally switch window managers occasionally just for the fun of the change and have several existing in parallel. The only thing that may take some work is making

emacs22 black text on white bg from menu but white text on black bg from console

2007-12-01 Thread Micha Feigin
I have a strange setup issue. I removed my emacs settings to redo them so now there are no theme commands (clean .emacs). Now, when I open emacs from the menus or file manager (thunar) it comes up in a dark text on light background theme (not very readable with the match of fonts and colors), and

Re: Firestarter

2007-12-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat December 1 2007, Darko wrote: > > try going to the start > > menu-Debian-applications-network-monitoring-firestarter > > > > I got your same error when I try it from a konsole, but it works from the > > menu > > But where from the menu i can't find it on my kde if i try from > /usr/sbin/  th

Re: Installing xfce on existing Etch gnome install

2007-12-01 Thread andy
Andrew Henry wrote: Is this easy to do? Is it as simple as installing an xfce meta package and then selecting xfce as the desktop when logging in? I've never tried using multiple desktop environments before and wonder if there any caveats I need to be aware of. --andrew Yep, that was my

Re: Firestarter

2007-12-01 Thread Darko
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat December 1 2007, Darko wrote: You normally don't need --reinstall, that causes the package to be fully removed before reinstallation. I did and i cant start it from default user and after su it says: (firestarter:) gtk warning canot open display

Re: Firestarter

2007-12-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:37:15 +, Darko wrote: > Patter wrote: > >> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:50:11 +0100, Michael Pobega wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:30:46AM +, Darko wrote: >>> I deinstaled gnome and now I can't start firestarter is exsist a way to run it unde

Re: dmcrypt on an existing partition (firewire external disk)

2007-12-01 Thread Andrew Henry
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > nice guide. it was definitely part of my list of open tabs when I was > setting up my encrypted laptop. He's got some other good ones there as > well. > > A > Somethings broken :( I followed the guide to the letter, and it all seemed to work wonderfully. Then t

Installing xfce on existing Etch gnome install

2007-12-01 Thread Andrew Henry
Is this easy to do? Is it as simple as installing an xfce meta package and then selecting xfce as the desktop when logging in? I've never tried using multiple desktop environments before and wonder if there any caveats I need to be aware of. --andrew -- GnuPG Key ID: ECB18ABA Fingerprint: FDF

Re: Firestarter

2007-12-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat December 1 2007, Darko wrote: > > You normally don't need --reinstall, that causes the package to be fully > > removed before reinstallation. > > > >   > > I did and i cant start it  from default user and after su it says: > (firestarter:) gtk warning canot open display try going to the sta

Re: Firestarter

2007-12-01 Thread Darko
Patter wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:50:11 +0100, Michael Pobega wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:30:46AM +, Darko wrote: I deinstaled gnome and now I can't start firestarter is exsist a way to run it under KDE apt-get install --reinstall firestarter You normally

Re: Gnome desktop and digital camera: How?

2007-12-01 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El sáb, 01-12-2007 a las 10:40 +0100, Dan H escribió: > Hello, > > whenever I plug in my digital camera (Canon S50), a window pops up on the > Gnome desktop asking me if I wanted to download the photos to my personal > album. Once I clicked "yes", something seemed to happen, but I've got no idea

Re: what's wrong with real.com? I can't download reaplayer for Linux

2007-12-01 Thread Serena Cantor
You can go to: http://www.real.com/linux/ and click download link there to see if there's problem. --- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/30/07 22:55, Serena Cantor wrote: > > I follow links at real.com, > > No matter how hard I

Gnome desktop and digital camera: How?

2007-12-01 Thread Dan H
Hello, whenever I plug in my digital camera (Canon S50), a window pops up on the Gnome desktop asking me if I wanted to download the photos to my personal album. Once I clicked "yes", something seemed to happen, but I've got no idea what or where my "personal album" might be (a "find" on JPG im

Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-12-01 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El vie, 30-11-2007 a las 17:16 -0600, Owen Heisler escribió: > On Thu, 2007.11.29 22:39, Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Thu, 2007.11.29 21:32, Owen Heisler wrote: > > > Sometimes, when I type in the console, about 40% of the keystrokes are > > > ignored. > > > If I type (for example) "startx" and hi