Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:19:49PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > I spend most of my time on the command line and use 'less' when I want > > > to just view

Re: [OT] spamassassin overreach? [Was: Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?]

2008-03-10 Thread Jeff
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:46:01AM -0400, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: Doug The mind boggles imagining a scenario involving covering a mother board with tobacco. You might also try Acetone (finger polish remover). Larry Did anyone else not

Re: Downgrading Xorg

2008-03-10 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon March 10 2008 22:24:50 Rich Healey wrote: > But wouldn't that also remove every X application i haven't built from > source as well, due to dependencies? Your X applications depend on the X client, not the X server. The X client is a whole bunch of libraries such as libx11-6. --Mike Bird

Re: Downgrading Xorg

2008-03-10 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon March 10 2008 21:54:26 Rich Healey wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 03/10/08 19:37, Rich Healey wrote: > >> This is my work machine so my usual tolerance for breaking stuff in the > >> persuit of knowledge is suspended. > > i was asking whether downgrading xorg *was* suicide, not offering

Re: Downgrading Xorg

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 But wouldn't that also remove every X application i haven't built from source as well, due to dependencies? Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/10/08 23:54, Rich Healey wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 03/10/08 19:37, Rich Healey wrote: Last night whil

Re: Downgrading Xorg

2008-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/08 23:54, Rich Healey wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/10/08 19:37, Rich Healey wrote: >>> Last night while bored and reading this list I saw that many use the >>> unstable version of Xorg on testing systems, and so I decided to do this >>

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 10/03/2008, KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would try out dd_rescue first. Read the device (SD card) with > dd_rescue and make an image of it. Then try mounting it and see if the > files are viewable. If not, then you can try out foremost , scalpel or > other similar data recovery tools.

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 10/03/2008, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > did you try with fsck.vfat? I have from time to time this problem with > my USB hdd. When I take the hard drive from my home windows machine to > my debian laptop somethimes a few GB are missing. I always find them > with fsck.vfat > T

Re: Downgrading Xorg

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/10/08 19:37, Rich Healey wrote: >> Last night while bored and reading this list I saw that many use the >> unstable version of Xorg on testing systems, and so I decided to do this >> as well. > >> Works fine, well in fact, e

Re: Why is cups printing of jpeg images so slow. compare with windows

2008-03-10 Thread Keith Richie
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have always noticed that when my HP laserjet 1200 postscript printer > is printing images, it goes very very slowly. > > i use Foomatic/pxlmono (recommended) driver. > > However for some reason, > > at work

shell scripting

2008-03-10 Thread SENTHIL KUMAR
Hi, i plan to run a program over some 20 files were i need to input one files as REFERENCE and then the remaining as TEST. i have return a script to take every file in the list to be taken a REF and the remaining as TEST and it works well{all with all }. but i want to specify which one to

gdb Q.: where do we stand regarding STL debugging?

2008-03-10 Thread H.S.
Hi, Just wanted to see if somebody could share some information about where we are regarding debugging programs which use STL. For example, I am not sure how I can print out the values of a two dimensional vector (vector of a vector) in gdb. Printing out dynamically allocated memory works

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/08 23:09, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > Ron, > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> For posterity, can you put up a web page (or list here) the changes to >> the (debian-multimedia?) ffmpeg deb-src to allow it to be built with >> mmx ena

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-10 Thread David Fox
On 3/10/08, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quite well done. Only one thing - you forgot to include the part that > says to take out that --disable-mmx line part in the debian/rules > file. Never mind... I saw that part. :) Shouldn't there be a little added writeup to bump your local ver

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-10 Thread David Fox
On 3/10/08, Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Were you looking for something along the lines of: > > http://www.RawFedDogs.net/DebianFfmpegMMX.html Quite well done. Only one thing - you forgot to include the part that says to take out that --disable-mmx line part in the debian/rules fil

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-10 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Ron, On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: For posterity, can you put up a web page (or list here) the changes to the (debian-multimedia?) ffmpeg deb-src to allow it to be built with mmx enabled? Were you looking for something along the lines of: http://www.RawFedDogs.net/DebianFfmpegMMX.

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/08 16:34, postid wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] >> >> Edit the kernel command line, add init=/bin/sh >> When the kernel boots, instead of runing /bin/init, it will run /bin/sh >> and give you a shell, no password required. > > Isn't

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-10 Thread David Fox
On 3/10/08, postid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't this a bit of a security breach? Anyone booting my laptop > would have potential access to my files. Would a person using > this shell have root privileges? You would only be running in init=/bin/sh temporarily, long enough to fix the issue, t

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 postid wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote: >> >>> For the second time in a month I got an error message >>> indicating bad inodes and had to fsck manually. >>> >>> I've had bad inodes before not l

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-10 Thread postid
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:57:03PM +, postid wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote: The magic keystrokes just sync the disks, they do not unmount the filesystems. Thus, things can become corrupted. If it were me

Re: Iceweasel does not use JRE

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/10/08 21:17, Rich Healey wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 03/10/08 19:24, Rich Healey wrote: >>> [snip] I found this (http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java) it's exactly what i needed. >>> But you don't hav

Re: Downgrading Xorg

2008-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/08 19:37, Rich Healey wrote: > Last night while bored and reading this list I saw that many use the > unstable version of Xorg on testing systems, and so I decided to do this > as well. > > Works fine, well in fact, except that if i try to re

Re: Iceweasel does not use JRE

2008-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/08 19:24, Rich Healey wrote: [snip] > > > I found this (http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java) it's exactly > what i needed. But you don't have to do that. I promise. (Unless I did it once, so long ago that I've since forgotten.) -

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/11/08, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:19:49PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > I spend most of my time on the command line and use 'less' when I want > > > to just view a file. However, ther

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:19:49PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I spend most of my time on the command line and use 'less' when I want > > to just view a file. However, there are some files that have excessively > > long lines and I'd

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/08 17:00, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, David Fox wrote: > >> On 3/10/08, Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> If you remove --disable-mmx does any mmx stuff build? > > If I also remove -fPIC and -DPIC then yes, I g

Setting OOo to print

2008-03-10 Thread andy
I have had to reinstall my printer, and now although using CUPS I can print a test page, OOo doesn't print through it. Can someone advise me how to set it up so that OOo will recognise the printer as the default and print through it. Thanks A -- "If they can get you asking the wrong questio

Downgrading Xorg

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Last night while bored and reading this list I saw that many use the unstable version of Xorg on testing systems, and so I decided to do this as well. Works fine, well in fact, except that if i try to resize a VM in VirtualBox it mangles my display, b

Re: Iceweasel does not use JRE

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micha wrote: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:59:54 +1100 > Jaime Tarrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Rich Healey wrote: >>> I have the jre installed apt, or at least i think i do >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg -l *jre* >>> ||/ Name Version

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI shared this with us all: >--} Kevin Mark wrote: >--} > In less, if you press 'v', it will open the file in VI, and then you > can --} > view the file there. >--} > >--} >   >--} >--} Actually, it opens in an editor defined by the VISUAL or EDITOR >--} envir

Re: /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed

2008-03-10 Thread s. keeling
Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > My printer HP Photosmart C7280 printed fine until I upgraded my sid box > and now cups gives: > /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed > > (the script perl /usr/lib/filter/foomatic-rip exits on my system) > > hp-setup (as root) gives: > > Session m

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Andrei Popescu wrote: > If you like vim try less.vim ;) > I have been using vim for a lot of years and did not know this either. Thanks for sharing it. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-10 Thread David Fox
On 3/10/08, Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I also remove -fPIC and -DPIC then yes, I get an mmx enabled version of > ffmpeg. I just got home where I could test the package I built earlier. > With the mmx enabled version I'm seeing much better performance. Thanks for the hints. I

Why is cups printing of jpeg images so slow. compare with windows

2008-03-10 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I have always noticed that when my HP laserjet 1200 postscript printer is printing images, it goes very very slowly. i use Foomatic/pxlmono (recommended) driver. However for some reason, at work the windows printers are very fast. What is wrong. What am i doing wrong? Is true of any we

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread Owen Townend
On 3/11/08, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a SD card in my Nokia 6288, formatted as FAT32. Every month or > so, the phone locks up and when I power down and back up, the card > appears empty. I then bring the card over to a friend's windows > computer to run some file recovery pr

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Kevin Mark wrote: In less, if you press 'v', it will open the file in VI, and then you can view the file there. Actually, it opens in an editor defined by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables (in that order), defaulting to vi if neither is set. In my system it starts emacs, for exam

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 06:24:37PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > >> > > In less, if you press 'v', it will open the file in VI, and then you can > > view the file there. > > This is an awesome trick. I did not know about it before. Thanks for sharing > it. > > raju

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kevin Mark wrote: >> > In less, if you press 'v', it will open the file in VI, and then you can > view the file there. This is an awesome trick. I did not know about it before. Thanks for sharing it. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutha

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-10 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, David Fox wrote: On 3/10/08, Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you remove --disable-mmx does any mmx stuff build? If I also remove -fPIC and -DPIC then yes, I get an mmx enabled version of ffmpeg. I just got home where I could test the package I built earlier

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I spend most of my time on the command line and use 'less' when I want > to just view a file. However, there are some files that have excessively > long lines and I'd like to be able to left/right scroll rather than have > the lines wr

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread KS
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:51:10PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I have a SD card in my Nokia 6288, formatted as FAT32. Every month or >> ..snip > > aptitude search ~Gadmin::recovery > > Some of them seem useful: > > foremost, scalpel, magicrescue > > Never tried any.

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I spend most of my time on the command line and use 'less' when I want > to just view a file. However, there are some files that have excessively > long lines and I'd like to be able to left/right scroll rather than have > the lines wr

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Rick Pasotto wrote: > I spend most of my time on the command line and use 'less' when I want > to just view a file. However, there are some files that have excessively > long lines and I'd like to be able to left/right scroll rather than have > the lines wrapped. What program could I call from the

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-10 Thread David Fox
On 3/10/08, Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After more trial and error I discovered that if one removes the > --disable-mmx ./configure parm and also removes the -fPIC and -DPIC flags, > the package will build successfully. Googling for ffmpeg fpic mmx turns If you remove --disable-mm

Re: What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-10 Thread David Fox
On 3/10/08, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway this is how it went. I use KDE on Lenny, and other distros. Rhythmbox > was not installed, so I installed it, and it pulled in a load of deps. I've > attached the history file for what was installed below. I use kde as well so I try it i

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Ivan Glushkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:32:49AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: >>> I spend most of my time on the command line and use 'less' when I want >>> to just view a file. Howev

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:32:49AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I spend most of my time on the command line and use 'less' when I want > > to just view a file. However, there are some files that have excessively > > long lines and I'd

Re: graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Ken Irving
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I spend most of my time on the command line and use 'less' when I want > to just view a file. However, there are some files that have excessively > long lines and I'd like to be able to left/right scroll rather than have > the lines wr

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 10/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:51:10PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I have a SD card in my Nokia 6288, formatted as FAT32. Every month or > > so, the phone locks up and when I power down and back up, the card > > appears empty. I then bring

graphical file browser from command line

2008-03-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
I spend most of my time on the command line and use 'less' when I want to just view a file. However, there are some files that have excessively long lines and I'd like to be able to left/right scroll rather than have the lines wrapped. What program could I call from the command line that would open

Re: What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Thanks for going to all this trouble! On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 08 March 2008 06:10, I wrote: > > Rhythmbox (based on gstreamer) could not handle wrfg.org/listen.asp > > (told me it could not determine the nature of the stream). The

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-10 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Kevin Monceaux wrote: After some trial and error I found that if I dropped the --disable-mmx and the --extra-cflags configure parms and let configure pick it's own cflags I could get the package to build successfully. After more trial and error I discovered that if one re

Re: German characters in English locale

2008-03-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:09:19PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > > I like to have my environment in English but need to write German texts > using latex. The typical > > \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} % deutsche Sprachunterst�tzung > \usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc} % Zeichencodierung Window

Re: What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-10 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 08 March 2008 06:10, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Provocative question, I realize. > > But here's why I ask: > > totem-gstreamer could not handle DVD's with menus, no matter what > plugins I added, it just played the first track. So, I switched to > totem-xine, and it handled them perfectl

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 08:49:04 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 18:09 Sun 09 Mar , Mike Bird wrote: [...] > > Sorry Mitchell, there was a slight mistake in the advice given to you. > > You should not install linux-image-2.6 but rather linux-image-2.6-486 > > or linux-image-2.6-686 (or one o

Re: 4.0R3 SATA support (or lack thereof)

2008-03-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 09:04:16 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/10/08 08:40, Peter Feigl wrote: > > Hi. I tried to install Debian 4.0R3 on an Acer M1610 machine and the > > sata_sis driver ignores the HDD, prohibiting installation. SUSE linux > > sata_sis works fine but SAX2 wrecks the video bey

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:51:10PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have a SD card in my Nokia 6288, formatted as FAT32. Every month or > so, the phone locks up and when I power down and back up, the card > appears empty. I then bring the card over to a friend's windows > computer to run some file rec

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-10 Thread Bob McGowan
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-03-05 13:10:37, schrieb Bob McGowan: Mark Clarkson wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:16:02 -0800 Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian wrote: So can you explain exactly what the first < <( echo "$teststring" ) does exactly please? man bash 8<

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-10 Thread Bob McGowan
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-03-05 14:13:33, schrieb Brian: teststring="one two three four five six" { read A B C D E F; } < <( echo "$teststring" ) echo "Data received = $E Bytes" END OF REPLIED MESSAGE This look a little bit weird. Why n

OpenOffice.org "widgets-set" option

2008-03-10 Thread Lee Glidewell
In other distros I've used, OOo is skinned to fit in with the rest of the desktop. I'm trying to replicate this with Debian, but not finding much in the way of how to do this. The OOo man page indicates that programs in the suite can be run with the "--widgets-set" option, but I can't figure ou

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 10/03/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a SD card in my Nokia 6288, formatted as FAT32. Every month or > > ... > > there such a program for Debian that works with FAT32? The files are > > obviously there, as in this case (now) I had 700 MB of the 2GB card > > used, bu

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-10 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Eduardo, On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: I've just rebuilt the package reenabling MMX, and apparently it works OK, and much faster. I've read that you've rebuilt the package, but are you sure MMX is enabled? I only tried rebuilding the package to optimize for i686. I hadn't

Re: Which stock linux-image kernel for 32 bit debian on amd athlon64 processor?

2008-03-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 03:33:52PM +, Tim Channon wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:48:16AM +, Tim Channon wrote: > >>Mitchell Laks wrote: > >>>Question 1: > >>> > >>>On one machine I am running a 32 bit debian install on a amd64 bit > >>>machine. > >>>I

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 08:16:53AM -0600, Travis Crook wrote: > As far as I know the two machines have never been around smoke so that > "grime" is of some other source, perhaps an overly dusty environment. > They did sit in my basement for some time. Thanks, Travis (and sorry for mis-spelling

Re: [OT] spamassassin overreach? [Was: Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?]

2008-03-10 Thread owens
Hi all To prevent the possibility of a spamassassin catch in the future I'll use this (very slow) e-mail client provided by my ISP. Sorry for the inconvenience. Larry > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/09/08 11:58, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:46:01

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:57:03PM +, postid wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote: > >The magic keystrokes just sync the disks, they do not unmount the > >filesystems. Thus, things can become corrupted. If it were me, after > >such a rebo

Re: [SOLVED] [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:12:30AM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > On 9-Mar-08, at 1:33 PM, Kevin Buhr wrote: > >"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >>I have a couple of new-to-me old computers. They've been well > >>used in > >>what looks like a normal office environment and they'

Re: Which stock linux-image kernel for 32 bit debian on amd athlon64 processor?

2008-03-10 Thread Tim Channon
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:48:16AM +, Tim Channon wrote: Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, Question 1: On one machine I am running a 32 bit debian install on a amd64 bit machine. I run 64 bit on another machine, and this one is an older install. I am running sid. Whi

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread dusan . vodopivec
> I have a SD card in my Nokia 6288, formatted as FAT32. Every month or > ... > there such a program for Debian that works with FAT32? The files are > obviously there, as in this case (now) I had 700 MB of the 2GB card > used, but now it looks like an empty 1300 MB card. sudo apt-cache show recove

Re: 4.0R3 SATA support (or lack thereof)

2008-03-10 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:40:46 -0400 Peter Feigl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I tried to install Debian 4.0R3 on an Acer M1610 machine and the > sata_sis driver ignores the HDD, prohibiting installation. SUSE linux > sata_sis works fine but SAX2 wrecks the video beyond all hope. How > can I ge

Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
I have a SD card in my Nokia 6288, formatted as FAT32. Every month or so, the phone locks up and when I power down and back up, the card appears empty. I then bring the card over to a friend's windows computer to run some file recovery program to recover the files. Is there such a program for Debia

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-10 Thread Travis Crook
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 13:49:10 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:10:00PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 03/09/08 10:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Doug > > > The mind boggles imagining a scenario involving covering a mother > > > board with tobacco

/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed

2008-03-10 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, My printer HP Photosmart C7280 printed fine until I upgraded my sid box and now cups gives: /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed (the script perl /usr/lib/filter/foomatic-rip exits on my system) hp-setup (as root) gives: Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : No

Re: How to extract text from PDF?

2008-03-10 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10-Mar-08, at 5:10 AM, Andrius wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Andrius wrote: One more question. How to megre several pdf files to one file using command mode please? pdftk is what you are after. Sample command looks like pdftk in1.pdf i

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-10 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9-Mar-08, at 1:33 PM, Kevin Buhr wrote: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a couple of new-to-me old computers. They've been well used in what looks like a normal office environment and they're a bit grimey inside; not ju

Re: 4.0R3 SATA support (or lack thereof)

2008-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/08 08:40, Peter Feigl wrote: > Hi. I tried to install Debian 4.0R3 on an Acer M1610 machine and the > sata_sis driver ignores the HDD, prohibiting installation. SUSE linux > sata_sis works fine but SAX2 wrecks the video beyond all hope. How ca

4.0R3 SATA support (or lack thereof)

2008-03-10 Thread Peter Feigl
Hi. I tried to install Debian 4.0R3 on an Acer M1610 machine and the sata_sis driver ignores the HDD, prohibiting installation. SUSE linux sata_sis works fine but SAX2 wrecks the video beyond all hope. How can I get Debian to recognize my sata HDD? -- "I'm not suffering from insanity. I'm enjo

Re: Failure of Ethernet link with Belkin adapter & Netgear hub.

2008-03-10 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8-Mar-08, at 4:07 PM, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Folk, If an Etch system is connected to the 'net _via_ a Belkin Model F5D5050 USB 10/100 Ethernet Adapter, an old AT-3612TR hub and a Netgear DS104 hub, communication works at 10 Mb/s, half duplex. T

Re: Converting from console-tools style keymap to console-setup xkb style keymap

2008-03-10 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8-Mar-08, at 12:32 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:15:12AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: Hi All, The tn5250 package has an add on keymap us5250.map that defines F21 thru F24, and a few other odds and ends, on the console

Re: Width of line

2008-03-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-03-09 17:02:26 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Saturday 08 March 2008 02:46:30 pm Andrius wrote: > > > 78 was too big. After 72 looks OK. > > 78 doesn't leave enough for the next person to reply, 72 is the rule > of thumb to stay under 80 after quoting. I agree. However, for a signature,

Re: thunar file manager (hal) vs. ntfs-3g

2008-03-10 Thread Adam Hardy
Micha on 10/03/08 12:12, wrote: I have a problem with mounting external drives that use ntfs-3g. When I plug in my external drive it shows up in thunar but it won't mount with the error that ntfs file system is not recognized (I removed the ntfs module since I need rw support). on the other hand

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-10 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 18:09 Sun 09 Mar , Mike Bird wrote: > On Sun March 9 2008 11:40:57 Mitchell Laks wrote: > > On 13:57 Sun 09 Mar , Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > Do you have the linus-image-2.6 meta-package installed? If you only > > > have an actual linux-image deb installed, it will never be upgraded.

Re: Problems with network printers. Additional explanations ...

2008-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/08 03:45, luisben wrote: > ...I try to solved this Problem going to the Printer Advanced Properties and > by activating a radio button about Printing Directly in The Printer and > without using windows print queues (At respect of [snip] > near

Re: Iceweasel does not use JRE

2008-03-10 Thread Micha
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:59:54 +1100 Jaime Tarrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rich Healey wrote: > > I have the jre installed apt, or at least i think i do > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg -l *jre* > > ||/ Name VersionDescription > > +++-==-==-==

thunar file manager (hal) vs. ntfs-3g

2008-03-10 Thread Micha
I have a problem with mounting external drives that use ntfs-3g. When I plug in my external drive it shows up in thunar but it won't mount with the error that ntfs file system is not recognized (I removed the ntfs module since I need rw support). on the other hand if I use pmount /dev/sdb1 it moun

Re: Iceweasel does not use JRE

2008-03-10 Thread Jaime Tarrant
Rich Healey wrote: > I have the jre installed apt, or at least i think i do > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg -l *jre* > ||/ Name VersionDescription > +++-==-==- > ii sun-java6-jre 6-04-2 Sun Java(TM) Runtime

Re: maximum partition size

2008-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/08 23:37, hce wrote: > On 3/10/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> On 03/09/08 21:22, hce wrote: >> > On 3/10/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>

Re: What's wrong with Open Office?

2008-03-10 Thread Ivan Glushkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the reply. I solved the problem the usual way in those situations (at least for me). Waiting for a few hours (until the repository is updated) and updating/upgrading again solved the problem. Cheers, Ivan Michael Marsh wrot

Re: What's wrong with Open Office?

2008-03-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-03-10 10:30 +0100, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > Hi, > > today after upgrade i realize that I cannot install open office on my > debian anymore. Any idea how to overcome that? This is quite normal with the openoffice.org packages. The reason is that the architecture dependent packages have not

Re: What's wrong with Open Office?

2008-03-10 Thread Michael Marsh
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:30 AM, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > today after upgrade i realize that I cannot install open office on my > debian anymore. Any idea how to overcome that? The version of OpenOffice.org in sid is uninstallable on most platforms. openoffice.org-common was b

Re: What's wrong with Open Office?

2008-03-10 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ivan Glushkov wrote: | Hi, | | today after upgrade i realize that I cannot install open office on my | debian anymore. Any idea how to overcome that? | | Cheers, | Ivan | | ~# apt-get install openoffice.org | Reading package lists... Done

Re: LANG=C not English?

2008-03-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 04:47:53PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > 16:36:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] export LC_ALL=en_US LC_ALL overrides all the other variables. Specifically it overrides LC_COLLATE . LANG merely provides them the defautl. This explains your results. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [E

Iceweasel does not use JRE

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have the jre installed apt, or at least i think i do [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg -l *jre* ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- ii sun-java6-jre 6-04-2 Su

What's wrong with Open Office?

2008-03-10 Thread Ivan Glushkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, today after upgrade i realize that I cannot install open office on my debian anymore. Any idea how to overcome that? Cheers, Ivan ~# apt-get install openoffice.org Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading st

Re: How to extract text from PDF?

2008-03-10 Thread Andrius
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Andrius wrote: One more question. How to megre several pdf files to one file using command mode please? pdftk is what you are after. Sample command looks like pdftk in1.pdf in2.pdf cat output out1.pdf For more info, take a look at the pdftk's man page. It can d

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-03-05 13:10:37, schrieb Bob McGowan: > Mark Clarkson wrote: > >On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:16:02 -0800 > >Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Brian wrote: > >>>So can you explain exactly what the first < <( echo "$teststring" ) > >>>does exactly please? man bash 8<--

Re: force kernel panic

2008-03-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-03-07 13:20:54, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Hi to all, > I have a problem, I need to test a kernel panic crash, I have an server > Debian 4.0, some body know the way to force, may be to ins a module in the > kernel, a kernel panic? > Thanks in advance END OF

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-03-05 14:13:33, schrieb Brian: > teststring="one two three four five six" > { read A B C D E F; } < <( echo "$teststring" ) > echo "Data received = $E Bytes" END OF REPLIED MESSAGE This look a little bit weird. Why not use: 8<--

Re: LANG=C not English?

2008-03-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-03-08 09:07:41, schrieb Tzafrir Cohen: > C != en_US > > $ ( echo a ; echo B ) | sort > a > B > > $ ( echo a ; echo B ) | LANG=C sort > B > a > > $ ( echo a ; echo B ) | LC_COLLATE=C sort > B > a There is something weird: 8<---

Problems with network printers. Additional explanations ...

2008-03-10 Thread luisben
...I try to solved this Problem going to the Printer Advanced Properties and by activating a radio button about Printing Directly in The Printer and without using windows print queues (At respect of http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271901/en-us in the Method 4 related to the Event ID 45). This prov

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