RE: motherboad for desktop

2009-08-23 Thread David Christensen
Francesco Pietra wrote: > new [desktop motherboard] for the same service (running 32bit graphic > scientific programs, besides office use, and establishing scp > connection with my amd64 computing machines). Absolutely no need of > multicore, rather, a single fast processor would be of use for > s

Re: [OT] Online downloadable books

2009-08-23 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:26:42 +0300 Micha wrote: ... > You are talking about illegal copies of the books, I don't think that this is > the right list for that. > > Some books are also available as ebooks, you can check amazon if they sell > the > books you want as ebooks. They are usually in

Re: How to play iso dvd without kde?

2009-08-23 Thread Juan Lavieri
Ron Johnson escribió: On 2009-08-23 20:54, Juan Lavieri wrote: Hi everybody. I'm trying to play an iso dvd in my box. If I do with kaffeine or Dragon player it works fine but If I try to do with totem it fails. The fact is that I want to do it on my laptop and I don't want any kde library in

Re: motherboad for desktop

2009-08-23 Thread Charles Kroeger
> virtually any board easily available today is going to make use of DDR2 > memory What about DDR3 memory, is that preferable? -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to play iso dvd without kde?

2009-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-23 20:54, Juan Lavieri wrote: Hi everybody. I'm trying to play an iso dvd in my box. If I do with kaffeine or Dragon player it works fine but If I try to do with totem it fails. The fact is that I want to do it on my laptop and I don't want any kde library in that system. I searc

How to play iso dvd without kde?

2009-08-23 Thread Juan Lavieri
Hi everybody. I'm trying to play an iso dvd in my box. If I do with kaffeine or Dragon player it works fine but If I try to do with totem it fails. The fact is that I want to do it on my laptop and I don't want any kde library in that system. I search in google and many people says they do t

Re: Mount ISO filesystem: no translation, no file version?

2009-08-23 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 07:19:57PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-23 17:46, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > >Hi, > > > >[Cc's appreciated as I don't subscribe to the list] > > > >By default, mounting an ISO filesystem will translate filenames, > >e.g. translating "THIS.DAT" to "this.dat". I need

Re: Mount ISO filesystem: no translation, no file version?

2009-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-23 17:46, Steve M. Robbins wrote: Hi, [Cc's appreciated as I don't subscribe to the list] By default, mounting an ISO filesystem will translate filenames, e.g. translating "THIS.DAT" to "this.dat". I need to turn off this translation. The manpage describes the option "map=off" whic

Re: How could I change the limit of defined keyboard variants ?

2009-08-23 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:40:44 +0200 Sever P A wrote: > Hello guys, > > gnome-keyboard-properties allows to define up to 4 keyboard variants... > > My question is: > > Is it possible to change this limit ? I believe that this is a hard-coded limit of X itself, not Gnome: "You can use multi-lay

Re: [OT] Online downloadable books

2009-08-23 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: mi...@post.tau.ac.il >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: [OT] Online downloadable books >Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:26:42 +0300 > >>On 8/22/2009 8:12 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> From: >>> >>> http://www.4shared.com >>> >>> I downloaded a book

Mount ISO filesystem: no translation, no file version?

2009-08-23 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, [Cc's appreciated as I don't subscribe to the list] By default, mounting an ISO filesystem will translate filenames, e.g. translating "THIS.DAT" to "this.dat". I need to turn off this translation. The manpage describes the option "map=off" which indeed turns off the lowercasing. However, t

Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive. [SOLVED]

2009-08-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:16:15 -0400, Mark wrote in message <200908222116.15752.m...@neidorff.com>: > On Saturday 22 August 2009 08:47 pm, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 09:09, Florian Kulzer > > [[[snip]]] > > Thank everyone for the advice. I now know what to do to solve the >

Re: motherboad for desktop

2009-08-23 Thread Justin The Cynical
Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi: My old K7S5A (SiS735 chipset) Athlon i386 lenny desktop has died and I am wondering how to set up a new one for the same service (running 32bit graphic scientific programs, besides office use, and establishing scp connection with my amd64 computing machines). That ma

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-23 14:09, Rob Gom wrote: Hi all, could anyone explain to me why fetchmail is needed in the first place? Now *this* is an excellent flame! From user's point of view it is something "additional". Instead of configuring mail setup in single place (MUA, mail program), one has to set it

Fwd: S.O.S abrigo sem ração

2009-08-23 Thread Sonia Aparecida De Oliveira Condutta
Forwarded message -- > From: Andréa Ribeiro > Date: 2009/8/19 > Subject: Fwd: SOS - A SITUAÇÃO APERTOU DE NOVO! > To: > > > REPASSANDO > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: CLUBE DOS VIRA-LATAS PRODUTOS > Date: 19/08/2009 18:24 > Subject: SOS - A SITUAÇÃO APERTOU DE N

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-23 Thread Scott Gifford
Rob Gom writes: [...] > Are there any mail programs which allow seamless integration with > fetchmail/getmail? If by that you mean allow you to get your mail via POP or IMAP without editing any configuration files, sure, all of the GUI mail clients do this: Thunderbird, KMail, Evolution, etc.

Re: motherboad for desktop

2009-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-23 11:01, Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi: My old K7S5A (SiS735 chipset) Athlon i386 lenny desktop has died and I am wondering how to set up a new one for the same service (running 32bit graphic scientific programs, besides office use, and establishing scp connection with my amd64 computing

RE: motherboad for desktop

2009-08-23 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Francesco Pietra [mailto:chiendar...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 9:02 AM > > Hi: > My old K7S5A (SiS735 chipset) Athlon i386 lenny desktop has died and I > am wondering how to set up a new one for the same service (running > 32bit graphic scientific programs, besides office

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-23 Thread Rob Gom
Hi all, could anyone explain to me why fetchmail is needed in the first place? >From user's point of view it is something "additional". Instead of configuring mail setup in single place (MUA, mail program), one has to set it up both in MUA (retrieve mail from local mail box) and fetchmail configura

Re: [OT] Online downloadable books

2009-08-23 Thread Micha
On 8/22/2009 8:12 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: From: http://www.4shared.com I downloaded a book I was looking for: Takeuti-Zaring's Introduction to Axiomatic Set Theory. It comes in .djvu format. I'd be curious to know how it was formatted that way: certainly not by scanning it page to page.

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-08-23 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:21:27 +0200, go...@dobosevic.com in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > >> So, I think the best solution is to ask developers to upload >> swfdec-mozilla to debian-volatile and to support it there too. >> >> What do you guys think? >> >> > I'm think you are right. This days

motherboad for desktop

2009-08-23 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi: My old K7S5A (SiS735 chipset) Athlon i386 lenny desktop has died and I am wondering how to set up a new one for the same service (running 32bit graphic scientific programs, besides office use, and establishing scp connection with my amd64 computing machines). Absolutely no need of multicore, ra

RE: Failure of X in squeeze.

2009-08-23 Thread Peter Crawford
> From: jdkay...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: Failure of X in squeeze. > Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:41:58 +0200 > Is this some sort of spam? I don't see a question anywhere. Yes; unintentional spam. One more try. Since earlier in August, X has failed in Squeeze running on an IBM NetVista. Nothing r

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-23 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#using > > Doesn't document volatile. Mentions security but doesn't really document it > fully, even through the links provided. (In particular, I couldn't find > what to ad

Re: -- SPAM -- webcam is not always detected

2009-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-23 03:58, belahcene wrote: Hi, I attached an usb web cam, sometimes it is detected an runs correctly , sometimes not??!! (I am running lenny 5 kernel 2.6.30 same problem with 2.6.26) For example now, cheese doesn't give the photo, while lspci and lsusb give debian:/home/bela#

Re: problem compiling kernel

2009-08-23 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Bernard wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >>Bernard wrote: >> >> >> >> >>Compiling md in the kernel is the right approach to boot from raided root >>without initrd. You can try this just skipping (deleteing the line in grub >>temporary) >> >> > I just tried that. Raid compiled into the kernel

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > On my systems the output of > > $ aptitude search '~i~D^acpid$' > > is > > i acpi-support-base - scripts for handling base ACPI events > such you're right, i had a typo. sorry. but now that i've found "apt-rdepends", i'm good.

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-23 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> this should be an easy one: on my current (etch) system, there are >>> a number of packages that have more than one version installed. for >>> example (and from memory), there are at least

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > this should be an easy one: on my current (etch) system, there are > > > a number of packages that have more than one version installed. for > > > example (and from

Re: inode question

2009-08-23 Thread Eugene Apolinary
ok, thank you!! --- On Sun, 8/23/09, Eugene Apolinary wrote: From: Eugene Apolinary Subject: Re: inode question To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009, 11:17 AM --- On Sun, 8/23/09, David Fox wrote: From: David Fox Subject: Re: inode question To: "Debian Use

Re: inode question

2009-08-23 Thread Eugene Apolinary
--- On Sun, 8/23/09, David Fox wrote: From: David Fox Subject: Re: inode question To: "Debian User Group" Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009, 1:45 AM On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Eugene Apolinary wrote: > Could that be possible to find the same inode, just because of there are two > filesyste

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > this should be an easy one: on my current (etch) system, there are > > a number of packages that have more than one version installed. for > > example (and from memory), there are at least three versions of gcc > > ins

Re: problem compiling kernel

2009-08-23 Thread Bernard
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Bernard wrote: Compiling md in the kernel is the right approach to boot from raided root without initrd. You can try this just skipping (deleteing the line in grub temporary) I just tried that. Raid compiled into the kernel instead of modules. No initrd. Still cra

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-23 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > this should be an easy one: on my current (etch) system, there are > a number of packages that have more than one version installed. for > example (and from memory), there are at least three versions of gcc > installed. am i safe to remove/purge the older ones? > >

webcam is not always detected

2009-08-23 Thread belahcene
Hi, I attached an usb web cam, sometimes it is detected an runs correctly , sometimes not??!! (I am running lenny 5 kernel 2.6.30 same problem with 2.6.26) For example now, cheese doesn't give the photo, while lspci and lsusb give debian:/home/bela# lsusb Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001

Re: should a "normal* system have multiple library versions?

2009-08-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,23.Aug.09, 11:43:37, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,23.Aug.09, 03:59:47, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > for comparison purposes, i'm looking at a fully-updated lenny > > > system right now, and i see not a single example of a lib package

RE: should a "normal* system have multiple library versions?

2009-08-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Kevin Ross wrote: > > From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpj...@crashcourse.ca] > > Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:00 AM > > > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > for comparison purposes, i'm looking at a fully-updated lenny > > > system right now, and i se

Re: should a "normal* system have multiple library versions?

2009-08-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,23.Aug.09, 03:59:47, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > for comparison purposes, i'm looking at a fully-updated lenny > > system right now, and i see not a single example of a lib package > > for which multiple versions are installed, which is wha

RE: should a "normal* system have multiple library versions?

2009-08-23 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpj...@crashcourse.ca] > Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:00 AM > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > for comparison purposes, i'm looking at a fully-updated lenny > > system right now, and i see not a single example of a lib package > > for whi

Re: should a "normal* system have multiple library versions?

2009-08-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > for comparison purposes, i'm looking at a fully-updated lenny > system right now, and i see not a single example of a lib package > for which multiple versions are installed, which is what i would > expect. argh, i take it back -- i just noticed

should a "normal* system have multiple library versions?

2009-08-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
as a followup to something i asked earlier, i was curious about whether it was safe to clean older versions of packages off of a system i'm currently upgrading. (i inherited this system, so i don't have a full history of how it got to be how it is.) more specifically about those packages wit

Re: Problems booting installation CDs

2009-08-23 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 22.08.2009, 21:48 -0400 schrieb Isaac Freeman: > [x-posted to debian-am...@lists.debian.org, > debian-b...@lists.debian.org, debian-u...@lists.debian.org] > > All, sorry for the wide distribution, but I wasn't sure which list > this belonged on; feel free to reply only to me, or to