Re: Bits from the Debian CD team

2009-01-06 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Frans Pop wrote: > The Debian CD team has made practical use of the extra time allowed for > the release of Lenny by implementing some late improvements of the CD and > DVD images available for Lenny [snip] Thanks for massive work! -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gm

Re: i386 vs amd64 revisited (was Re: Lenny: which arch for a Intel Core 2 Duo?)

2009-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/06/09 23:15, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 11:55:42PM +, thveillon.debian wrote: Never had problem with w64codecs (debian-multimedia), but yes I forgot about acroread plug-in which still requires nspluginwrapper (should be working OK though, not too intensive), but i

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote, on 07/01/09 09:09: On Tuesday 2008 December 30 12:30:40 Barclay, Daniel wrote: However, when you're releasing N thousand changes every 18 months or so, it's arguable that maybe you should be releasing N/2 thousand changes every 9 or 10 months. Bah. I think that 1

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-06 Thread Robert Hancock
Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Bernd Schubert wrote: But now more than a year has passed again without doing anything about it and actually this is what I strongly criticize. Most people don't know about issues like that and don't run file checksum tests as I now always do before taking a disk into pr

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Bernd Schubert wrote: > But now more than a year has passed again without doing anything > about it and actually this is what I strongly criticize. Most people > don't know about issues like that and don't run file checksum tests > as I now always do before taking a disk into production. So

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I agree and there has been work on that. However, I've yet to see a good > UI for composing sieve scripts. I think one of the webmail packages > SquirelMail(?) or RoundCube(?) has the beginning of a UI. Squirrelmail, with the appropriate addon activated. --

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 06 January 2009, Steve Lamb wrote about 'Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply': >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> I prefer a sieve, the standard language for server-side mail filtering, >> implementation on my IMAP (and managesieve) server. > >If on

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:36:56PM -0500, Joey L wrote: > Well thanks for the reply - I think i narrowed it down. > 1). Multicd - does the job - the issue there is that we need to do it on > iso9660 filesystem and NOT the ext2 filesystem that come by default. > > Does anyone know how to change tha

i386 vs amd64 revisited (was Re: Lenny: which arch for a Intel Core 2 Duo?)

2009-01-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 11:55:42PM +, thveillon.debian wrote: > Never had problem with w64codecs (debian-multimedia), but yes I forgot > about acroread plug-in which still requires nspluginwrapper (should be > working OK though, not too intensive), but i don't use it and never came > across a

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > God must not love you. Being an Atheist I'm used to it. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who can decide what they dream PGP Key: 1FC01004 | and dream I do ---+- signature.

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/06/09 22:37, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:27:46PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/06/09 21:48, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Are you using stock Tbird, or Iceweasel? (I/w has certain patches needed by r-t-l.) Stock from Ubuntu/Debian packaging respectively

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:27:46PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/06/09 21:48, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Are you using stock Tbird, or Iceweasel? (I/w has certain patches >>> needed by r-t-l.) >> >> Stock from Ubuntu/Debian packaging respectively. Both of which have >> ha

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/06/09 21:48, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Are you using stock Tbird, or Iceweasel? (I/w has certain patches needed by r-t-l.) Stock from Ubuntu/Debian packaging respectively. Both of which have had the patch as part of the Debian version for close to 2 years now (I think).

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/06/09 18:53, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Ron? Am 2009-01-06 13:07:16, schrieb Ron Johnson: maildrop is what you want. *Much* more rational than procmail. (But then, I like Python...) Maildrop is the last thing one would install... The same for Sieve. If you try to konfigure those

Re: Debian AMD64

2009-01-06 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:40:48PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I just got my Compaq laptop CQ40-115AU and I want to install Lenny > AMD64. What's the different if I use AMD64 instead of i386. My main > use of laptop is for word processing and virtualization. > > Can any of AMD64 user share th

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Maildrop is the last thing one would install... The > same for Sieve. If you try to konfigure those blobs > you will get knots and cancer in your brain. > Glad to see you're as rational as ever. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who can decide what they

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I prefer a sieve, the standard language for server-side mail filtering, > implementation on my IMAP (and managesieve) server. If only mail clients would incorporate sieve into their normal filtering. IE, my dad probably can't write sieve filters but he can use

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Are you using stock Tbird, or Iceweasel? (I/w has certain patches > needed by r-t-l.) Stock from Ubuntu/Debian packaging respectively. Both of which have had the patch as part of the Debian version for close to 2 years now (I think). -- Steve C. Lamb |

Bits from the Debian CD team

2009-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
The Debian CD team has made practical use of the extra time allowed for the release of Lenny by implementing some late improvements of the CD and DVD images available for Lenny. With the addition of a tasksel task for the LXDE desktop environment [1], Lenny will support the installation of four

Re: laptop lenny + TV

2009-01-06 Thread consultores1
El lun, 05-01-2009 a las 13:58 +0100, Emanoil Kotsev escribió: > consultores1 wrote: > > > > > yes, i want to show my desktop and videos, presentations and all what i > > do in my laptop. > > > > You have to configure the tv out (s-video) as second display output, then > configure your desktop

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Ron? Am 2009-01-06 13:07:16, schrieb Ron Johnson: > maildrop is what you want. *Much* more rational than procmail. > (But then, I like Python...) Maildrop is the last thing one would install... The same for Sieve. If you try to konfigure those blobs you will get knots and cancer in you

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi, Am 2009-01-06 12:09:24, schrieb hose: > I used to use pine too - loved it. I switched to mutt shortly after > college at the encouragement of a number of coworkers. It was > unfortunately terrible for the first couple hours. Then someone gave > me their .muttrc and it was like the who

Re: Debian AMD64

2009-01-06 Thread Samir Cury
So, it s possible to use 64bit OS now in the `same speed` than 32bit system? Now the difference is not a `sacrifice`(joke hehe)? On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/06/09 10:56, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > >> Sam Leon wrote: >> >>> To get a pdf plugin for iceweasel you ha

Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kent West: > Dotan Cohen wrote: >> 2009/1/6 Kent West : >> >>> (You also get spoiled to the two-finger scrolling on a track-pad fast >>> too. I love it on my Debian lappy and on my Macbook; I get so frustrated >>> when I sit down at a Windows laptop and don't have that feature. >> >> What's tha

Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-06 Thread Bernard
Stackpole, Chris wrote: From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:41 PM To: Stackpole, Chris Subject: Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations Stackpole, Chris wrote: From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 2008 December 30 12:30:40 Barclay, Daniel wrote: > However, when you're releasing N thousand changes every 18 months or so, > it's arguable that maybe you should be releasing N/2 thousand changes every > 9 or 10 months. Bah. I think that 18 months is a fine amount of time between stabl

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-06 Thread Ken Teague
David Jardine wrote: > If that's not a complete load of rubbish, quality will be improved > by longer release cycles. Makes sense to me. I also found this in a very old post to this list which points out a lot of pros and cons:: On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:36:15 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: >

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Barclay, Daniel wrote: > As I wrote in my other message, I'm talking about changing the "chunk size" > of releases, not the quality. Debian releases work more or less like this: - new software versions are published upstream (source code). - this software is packaged into debian and enters 'unst

X has lost Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Plus/Minus

2009-01-06 Thread Andre Majorel
Since I upgraded X from old testing to current testing, - Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Plus and Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Minus do nothing (no DontZoom in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I checked), - my modelines in /etc/X11/xorg.conf seem to be ignored (no trace of them in /var/log/Xorg.0.log). It's still possible to switch

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-06 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:28:44PM -0800, Ken Teague wrote: > Barclay, Daniel wrote: > > [...] > > Doing it the second way does _not_ have to compromise any quality > > standards. > > (Why do you (seemingly) think it does?) > > Perhaps I wasn't understanding you correctly the first time around. >

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-06 Thread Ken Teague
Carl Fink wrote: > Just jumping in on one small point. > > Doesn't actually make much sense, if you think about it. If the packages > are updated by Debian developers, surely that would help Debian to its next > release, too? Anyway, IIRC someone posted to this list last year that a > great numb

Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 2009 January 06 14:47:19 Stackpole, Chris wrote: > Meh, the sudo thing annoys me. I just `sudo su` and get the root prompt. > I will probably get yelled at again for saying that though... "sudo -s" works even if some crazy has removed/replaced/broken in su binary. You might also want "s

Re: Iceweasel not start after KDE startup

2009-01-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:05:38 +0100 komodo wrote: Hello komodo, > Hi, yes this is solution, and i knew it, but the question is, why > everything works with ksmserver except icewasel ? :-) Ah, that's typical of me; Offer a solution somebody already knows. :-) > As i wrote before, it works perf

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-06 Thread Carl Fink
Just jumping in on one small point. On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:28:44PM -0800, Ken Teague wrote: > I can't put an exact number on it, but I think there are more than a > thousand Debian developers from various parts of the world, each of whom > have a life outside of Debian development. Without p

RE: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-06 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:41 PM > To: Stackpole, Chris > Subject: Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations > > Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > >>From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr] > >>Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:30 PM > >>S

Re: ftp directories...

2009-01-06 Thread Chris Davies
Dov Oxenberg wrote: > I want to configure VSFTPD so that when specific users log in they are > directed to a corresponding directory previously created for them on > the storage partition. You might want to re-read the section describing user_sub_token. Or, if your users aren't virtual then consi

Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-06 Thread Bernard
Stackpole, Chris wrote: From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:30 PM Subject: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations [snip] For I have not been able to get WiFi working so far ! The UBUNTU v8.04 Gnome Desktop proposes a few things to get

Re: Debian way to set up iptables rules?

2009-01-06 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:35:32 -0500 Michael Pobega wrote: ... > Edit: I resent this message because something went wrong with the > last...I have no clue what happened. It hit the list encrypted. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-06 Thread Ken Teague
Barclay, Daniel wrote: > > Ken Teague wrote: > How much change (new features, re-implementations, new packages); how much > work. This is because Debian is a packaged-based distribution and there are litterally thousands of packages that change with bug fixes, new features and so on. This also a

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/06/09 13:44, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 2009 January 06 13:07:16 Ron Johnson wrote: I use procmail. maildrop is what you want. I prefer a sieve, the standard language for server-side mail filtering, implementation on my IMAP (and managesieve) server. Google doesn't seem

Re: upgrading old-stable

2009-01-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 2009 January 06 12:49:34 Javier Barroso wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:33 PM, roberto wrote: > > hello, > > i'd like to ask you the time until it will be possible to upgrade from > > debian sarge to the actual debian stable (etch) > > You will can upgrade always from sarge

Re: Make it impossible for websites to style forms in Debian Blizzardhawk

2009-01-06 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Thanks for your response, Tom. 2009/1/6 thveillon.debian : > I happen to share your taste for dark themes, and I solved some of my > issues with SandDonkey in /usr/share/xulrunner-1.9/res/forms.css by > basically hunting for > > background-color: -moz-Field; > color: -moz-FieldText; > > in the "i

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 2009 January 06 13:07:16 Ron Johnson wrote: > > I use procmail. > > maildrop is what you want. I prefer a sieve, the standard language for server-side mail filtering, implementation on my IMAP (and managesieve) server. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@ig

Re: Debian AMD64

2009-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/06/09 10:56, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Sam Leon wrote: To get a pdf plugin for iceweasel you have to install acroread mozilla-acroread nspluginwrapper from debian multimedia repos. However the bugs in mozilla-acroread https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acroread/+bug/236219 are wor

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/06/09 11:51, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue January 6 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: Mine is the same that Debian Iceweasel has always been, but with Mnenhy and Reply To List add-ons. -- where do you get this add-on?? There are two addons which claim to do the same thing. I use the one fro

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread hose
On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/06/09 12:36, hose wrote: On Jan 6, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: [snip] yeah, I can see that.. in kmail I have over 200 filters.. that will be the hardest part... [snip] I've never done email filtering in mutt though, so I c

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/06/09 08:09, Steve Lamb wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: I have RTL 0.2.0 on there from a suggestion you made a while back about 0.3.1 not playing nice with IMAP while the older version did. Older versions needed either Mnenhy(which you have) or Enigmail(which I have) to work. 0.3.0 do

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/06/09 12:36, hose wrote: On Jan 6, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: [snip] yeah, I can see that.. in kmail I have over 200 filters.. that will be the hardest part... [snip] I've never done email filtering in mutt though, so I can't speak to that. I use procmail instead,

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 01:01:18PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2009-01-05 18:13:32, schrieb hose: > > Just use the least sucky client out there (mutt). It has sane reply, > > reply-to, and reply-to-list commands, is extremely fast, and can bend > > to your will if needed, no matter how

Re: Free alternative for Plesk on Debian

2009-01-06 Thread kj
Siju George wrote: Hi, Is there any free software that I can use Instead of Plesk on Debian? Thanks --Siju As much as I loathe Plesk, it beats anything I've had the misfortune of working with, except maybe CPanel. Of all the opensource panels, ISPconfig works the best for me, but it can

Re: Anyone got qc-usb working with kernel 2.6.28 and amd64?

2009-01-06 Thread subscriptions
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 20:51 +0200, subscriptions wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 02:24 +0100, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I'm trying to get a Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Web (lego webcam based on > > logitec) working on my box running kernel 2.6.28 amd64 kernel. I > > managed to fix compilation errors using

Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

2009-01-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul Cartwright wrote: > > We had a server outage last weekend. If you still have problems, ask your > > ISP for help, thousands of people are using ftp.berlios.de without any > > problem. > > > > Jörg > > I am having problems getting to this site and downloading updates: > > http://freshmeat.net

ftp directories...

2009-01-06 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Hi, Ok, so I have VSFTPD installed and running, and now have a 200GB storage partition mounted. I have thoroughly examined the vsftpd.conf file and cannot seem to locate the setting I am looking for, namely, to point the FTP Daemon to directories on the storage partition. In other words, I want

Re: Anyone got qc-usb working with kernel 2.6.28 and amd64?

2009-01-06 Thread subscriptions
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 02:24 +0100, Micha Feigin wrote: > I'm trying to get a Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Web (lego webcam based on > logitec) working on my box running kernel 2.6.28 amd64 kernel. I > managed to fix compilation errors using a patch I found on the bug > tracking system plus some extra mo

Re: upgrading old-stable

2009-01-06 Thread Javier Barroso
Hello, On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:33 PM, roberto wrote: > hello, > i'd like to ask you the time until it will be possible to upgrade from > debian sarge to the actual debian stable (etch) You will can upgrade always from sarge to etch. Urls will change, but repositories from distros are archived and

Re: resize vncviewer window

2009-01-06 Thread Ken Teague
Tim Frink wrote: > I'd like to use the vncserver session on two different machines > with different display resolutions. So, I've started vncserver > on a machine with 1024x768 and got could get the correctly scaled > desktop via vncviewer. > > When I restore the session wit vncviewer on another

Re: Recovery required on readonly filesystem

2009-01-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
postid wrote: > > EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem > > and > > EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery > > "Recovery" from what? It's up and running now. Should I do something? > Should I wait till the next boot and see if it does it again or has it > fixed

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread hose
On Jan 6, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue January 6 2009, hose wrote: These days people seem to enjoy posting their config files online with screenshots, so you can see what you get. It's usually a good starting place. I suppose this is why people call mutt a frontend to a

upgrading old-stable

2009-01-06 Thread roberto
hello, i'd like to ask you the time until it will be possible to upgrade from debian sarge to the actual debian stable (etch) thank you in advance -- roberto OS: GNU/Linux Debian Kubuntu, Edubuntu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue January 6 2009, hose wrote: > These days people seem to enjoy posting their config files online with   > screenshots, so you can see what you get.  It's usually a good   > starting place.  I suppose this is why people call mutt a frontend to   > a config file. > > http://wiki.mutt.org/?Confi

Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue January 6 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Wodim certainly had and has it's share of issues, but so has cdrecord.  If > either (a) you don't intend to distribute cdrecord OR (b) you agree with > Joerg's interpretation of the GPL, I strongly encourage you to install > cdrecord from Joerg

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue January 6 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > Mine is the same that Debian Iceweasel has always been, but with > Mnenhy and Reply To List add-ons. > > -- where do you get this add-on?? google search wasn't too helpful. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread hose
On Jan 6, 2009, at 6:37 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue January 6 2009, Michelle Konzack wrote: I am using "mutt" since 9 years now and currently I have open four XTerm running "mutt". There is nothing which does not work on it. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening I used pine 20 year

Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

2009-01-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 2009 January 06 06:17:49 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Tue January 6 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > >Are you sure it it using the "new cdrecord"? > > > > What do you understand by "new cdrecord"? > > I don't think I knew all of that, thanks for the background. Why do people > always have

Re: Iceweasel not start after KDE startup

2009-01-06 Thread André Neves
Hi, Martin. Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the problem here seems to be that the command that ksmserver is recording isn't working. Tell us, what happens if you run that command from a terminal? I guess it's /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/xulrunner-stub,--sm-config-prefix,/firefox-bin-J4K7Of/,-

Re: Debian AMD64

2009-01-06 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Sam Leon wrote: > To get a pdf plugin for iceweasel you have to install acroread > mozilla-acroread nspluginwrapper from debian multimedia repos. However > the bugs in mozilla-acroread > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acroread/+bug/236219 are > worsened by the amd64 environment Why one

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-06 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Raquel wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:38:41 -0800 > Ken Teague wrote: > >>> Is Debian's stable release cycle relative long because Debian >>> releases typically involve big changes that set the minimum time >>> between releases, or is it because Debian not really attempt to >>> design and make s

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-06 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Ken Teague wrote: > Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Why do so many defenses of Debian's release cycle length seem to ignore or >> skirt the issue of _how_ _much_ is planned to be in each release? (Saying >> "when it's right" still depends on what "it" is--which set of features/ >> changes are involved.

Re: Debian AMD64

2009-01-06 Thread Sam Leon
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: I just got my Compaq laptop CQ40-115AU and I want to install Lenny AMD64. What's the different if I use AMD64 instead of i386. My main use of laptop is for word processing and virtualization. Can any of AMD64 user share their experience or perhaps a bit of advice? No p

Re: OT: IP of computer sending message

2009-01-06 Thread Sam Leon
Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, Is there a way to get the IP of the computer sending message, using Kopete? I am receiving messages from someone who must have highjack my brother ID. I know that the messages dont come from his machine (I first thought it could be as he is running W$) because I ph

Re: Recovery required on readonly filesystem

2009-01-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
postid wrote: EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem from: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum40/1760.htm "ext3 switches to read-only automatically if it encounters too many write errors" Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: Debian way to set up iptables rules?

2009-01-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:59:54PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hi. > > Which is the default/designated way in Debian to set up iptables rules > on system boot? > > I mean the /etc/init.d scripts is long gone... ;) > > Thanks, > Chris. I used to use iptables, until I found Shorewall

Re: Debian way to set up iptables rules?

2009-01-06 Thread Michael Pobega
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Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/6 Kent West : >> What's that? Link, please > > http://www.symphonious.net/2007/05/22/two-finger-scrolling-rocks/ > > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=26480 (the second posting, by > roadnottaken) > Excellent, thanks! You don't want to know what google thinks I'm searching for when I

Recovery required on readonly filesystem

2009-01-06 Thread postid
Greetings: When I booted my IBM R40 laptop running Sarge this morning I noticed a rather disturbing series of messages in the log. Maybe it's happened before, but I don't recall seeing it. Localhost kernel: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly and EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on re

Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-06 Thread Kent West
Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/1/6 Kent West : > >> (You also get spoiled to the two-finger scrolling on a track-pad fast >> too. I love it on my Debian lappy and on my Macbook; I get so frustrated >> when I sit down at a Windows laptop and don't have that feature. > > What's that? Link, please http

Re: Free alternative for Plesk on Debian

2009-01-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 07:12:05PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any free software that I can use Instead of Plesk on Debian? Plesk can do lots of things. It also creates lots of mess (I know it mostly by repoutation. I had mostly the misfortune of knowing cPanel). What does the

Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:29:31 +0800 "Koh Choon Lin" wrote: > > Do you think that just any usb mouse will do the job, or have I better > > ordering a specific DELL mouse ? > > OT: I am looking for a three button mouse but I do not seems to find > one wheel-less. Anyone has an idea? > > There use

Re: Free alternative for Plesk on Debian

2009-01-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/6 Hugo Vanwoerkom : > CLI ? Command Line Interface? > Yup, that one. It will start and stop apache and mysql servers, you can configure file with VIM, nano, or anything in between, browse the file system, transfer files, and I think that there is even an ncurses-based game or three out ther

Re: Debian AMD64

2009-01-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:58:21 -0200 Samir Cury wrote: > Problems that i remember to get and some friends had too was mainly with > java and flash installation. But if you really want, everything is easy. > flash is solved now that there is a 64bit version out. java plugin is still a problem (ther

Re: Debian AMD64

2009-01-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:56:52 -0200 Samir Cury wrote: > I tried to use it on my desktop AMD64 a year ago, and i had some problems > with software installing, maybe it does exists but sometimes is harder to > find, in the end you gain speed, but spend more time making your system as > you want. >

Re: Free alternative for Plesk on Debian

2009-01-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/1/6 Umarzuki Mochlis : >From Wikipedia: "The Parallels Plesk Control Panel software package is a commercial web hosting automation program." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesk The CLI will do everything that Plesk does and more. The learning curve is only slightly hig

Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/6 Kent West : > Oh I hated those mice! Mostly because they don't have a scroll wheel; > you get spoiled to a scroll wheel really fast. > That is quite what the OP wanted. > (You also get spoiled to the two-finger scrolling on a track-pad fast > too. I love it on my Debian lappy and on my M

Debian and Zipf's law

2009-01-06 Thread Girish Kulkarni
This isn't OT hopefully, but Debian has just contributed to research in Statistics, with potential application in Economics and Physics: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008PhRvL.101u8701M Although the journal article will require subscription, the arXiv e-print of the paper can be downloaded for f

RE: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-06 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Stackpole, Chris [mailto:cstackp...@barbnet.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:25 AM > Subject: RE: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations > > > From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr] > > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:30 PM > > Subject: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: lapt

RE: Debian AMD64

2009-01-06 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Umarzuki Mochlis [mailto:umarz...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:13 AM > Subject: Re: Debian AMD64 > > Come to think of it, my main concern for this laptop (CQ40-115AU) is > it's wifi, altec lansing audio and it's webcam whether anyone ever got > them working on Lenny AMD64

Re: Free alternative for Plesk on Debian

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Jan 06, 2009 at 16:36:49 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > The CLI will do everything that Plesk does and more. The learning > curve is only slightly higher, but with Google and this list you will > find it _easier_ in the long run. There are open-source hosting panels. In my experience all

Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

2009-01-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Please keep me on the CC! Paul Cartwright wrote: >> I recommand to have a look at the latest release (2.01.01a55) in >> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ >> make sure to be root when calling make install, to allow cdrecord to be >> installed suid root as needed on Linux. >I have a48 >f

Re: Make it impossible for websites to style forms in Debian Blizzardhawk

2009-01-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
Michelle Konzack: > Am 2009-01-06 02:07:56, schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso: > > > > http://sums.math.mcgill.ca/~jordi/piccies/exhibit-a.png > > Whoops... I was not aware, that I can modify the look of a Website by > modifying a GTK+ theme... This is standard behaviour. As long as form e

Re: Free alternative for Plesk on Debian

2009-01-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/6 Umarzuki Mochlis : > >From Wikipedia: > "The Parallels Plesk Control Panel software package is a commercial > web hosting automation program." > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesk > The CLI will do everything that Plesk does and more. The learning curve is only slightly higher, but with

Re: Free alternative for Plesk on Debian

2009-01-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/1/6 Ron Johnson : > On 01/06/09 07:42, Siju George wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Is there any free software that I can use Instead of Plesk on Debian? > > What exactly *is* Plesk? > >From Wikipedia: "The Parallels Plesk Control Panel software package is a commercial web hosting automation program."

RE: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-06 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr] > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:30 PM > Subject: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations > [snip] > For I have not been able to get WiFi working so far ! > > The UBUNTU v8.04 Gnome Desktop proposes a few things to get wifi > working, but it

Re: Debian AMD64

2009-01-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Come to think of it, my main concern for this laptop (CQ40-115AU) is it's wifi, altec lansing audio and it's webcam whether anyone ever got them working on Lenny AMD64. Now still googling on that. 2009/1/6 lostson : > On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 15:07 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 a

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: > I have RTL 0.2.0 on there from a suggestion you made a while back about > 0.3.1 not playing nice with IMAP while the older version did. > Older versions needed either Mnenhy(which you have) or Enigmail(which I > have) to work. 0.3.0 does not need either. But here's th

Re: rkhunter --propupd option-SOLVED

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue January 6 2009, Firebeam wrote: > > # update-alternatives --list rkunter > > No alternatives for rkunter. > > Uh, sorry, it's a typo... > > update-alternatives --list rkhunter > > I forgot an "h" :-) and I didn't notice.. # update-alternatives --list rkhunter No alternatives for rkhunter.

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/06/09 08:02, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: My User-Agent string is a lot more "rich" than yours. Are you purposefully minimizing it, or could it be a co-symptom of what ever is the real reason why r-t-l doesn't work for you? Yours seems to be inflated for some reason. Here's

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/06/09 07:52, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: My User-Agent string is a lot more "rich" than yours. Are you purposefully minimizing it, or could it be a co-symptom of what ever is the real reason why r-t-l doesn't work for you? Probably not. This one better? Still no r-t-l her

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > My User-Agent string is a lot more "rich" than yours. Are you > purposefully minimizing it, or could it be a co-symptom of what > ever is the real reason why r-t-l doesn't work for you? Yours seems to be inflated for some reason. Here's yours: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X1

Re: Debian AMD64

2009-01-06 Thread lostson
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 15:07 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:40:48PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > I just got my Compaq laptop CQ40-115AU and I want to install Lenny > > AMD64. What's the different if I use AMD64 instead of i386. My main > > use of laptop is for word pro

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > My User-Agent string is a lot more "rich" than yours. Are you > purposefully minimizing it, or could it be a co-symptom of what > ever is the real reason why r-t-l doesn't work for you? Probably not. This one better? Still no r-t-l here. -- Steve C. Lamb

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