Re: What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-04 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
Stefan Monnier wrote: I also like to do that, but many of my machines seem to not support it, or at least I haven't been able to use it on many of my machines, even though they appear to support it. What are those good guides on how to set it up for Debian? wiki.debian.org/WakeOnLan was all

Re: What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-04 Thread Tim Tebbit
godo wrote: > Personally, I would bought aluminium suitcase with sponge inside. > If you don't care if it is fancy go to some tool shop it will be much > cheaper (and better quality). > If in your country are "Bauhaus" shop you can find it for cca $50. Sliding a bit off topic, but I also ride ever

Re: What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-04 Thread godo
unforgettableid wrote: Hi all, I usually get around my city of Toronto, Canada by bicycle. I fall off my bike once a year or so. Therefore I don't carry breakable electronics like my laptop unless I know I will need them. But I sometimes need to use my Debian OS, my files, and some shell scri

Re: after unpacking the Lesstif2 0.95.0.orig.tar.gz! The following occured. So what is this telling me

2009-11-04 Thread Kevin M. Wilson
Hello, On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 02:52:30PM -0700, Kevin M. Wilson wrote: > > From: http://packages.debian.org/sid/devel/ddd > > "This version is linked against Lesstif, an LGPL-ed implementation of Motif." > > So I went to: http://packages.debian.org/sid/lesstif2 > > To download what I thought wa

Re: What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Hello. You do not have to leave your laptop running if it has > wake-on-LAN. To check if your laptop supports this, check your BIOS > for settings such as "wake-on-lan", "wake-on-ethernet", "wol", etc. > You can then start your laptop with etherwake or a similar program. > There are many good gu

Re: Serious clock problem

2009-11-04 Thread Steve Reilly
FTALOVER wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running VMW ESXi 3i (3.5.0) on an 4 CPUs DELL Poweredge 1950. This > machine is hosting 8 virtual machines, 5 running Etch and 3 running > Lenny. All guests were running fine until I upgraded the kernel to > linux-image-2.6.26-2-686_2.6.26-19 in the 3 boxes runn

Re: 2.6.31 kernels

2009-11-04 Thread Colin
Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 07:53:15PM -0500, Colin wrote: The broadcom-sta source code that was included in non-free Debian would no longer compile with kernel 2.6.31. That's why they've been working on the b43 driver extensively in the 2.6.32 kernel so the broadcom-sta driver wi

Re: 2.6.31 kernels

2009-11-04 Thread Colin
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: So, if I understand correctly, I should not upgrade to 2.6.31 stock kernel, when that is released for testing, right? From what I heard, there won't be a 2.6.31 for testing, only a 2.6.32 when it's ready. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 06:48:55PM +, unforgettableid wrote: > Hi all, > > I usually get around my city of Toronto, Canada by bicycle. I fall off my > bike > once a year or so. Therefore I don't carry breakable electronics like my > laptop unless I know I will need them. But I sometimes ne

Re: What is consensus for meaning of stable/unstable? (Re: Does everything depend on everything?)

2009-11-04 Thread Raquel
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:10:37 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > AIUI, that _is_ the meaning. Think, stable - unchanging. esp in > resp to API's etc. > > unstable - changing frequently at random. > > Not to be confused with "buggy ness" or "more likely to crash" etc. > The best place to get an answ

What is consensus for meaning of stable/unstable? (Re: Does everything depend on everything?)

2009-11-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 09:46:20PM +0200, Micha wrote: > My experience over the last 12 years or so is that stable, testing, > unstable talks more about how volatile the distribution is rather than > how stable it actually is. AIUI, that _is_ the meaning. Think, stable - unchanging. esp in resp

Serious clock problem

2009-11-04 Thread FTALOVER
Hi all, I'm running VMW ESXi 3i (3.5.0) on an 4 CPUs DELL Poweredge 1950. This machine is hosting 8 virtual machines, 5 running Etch and 3 running Lenny. All guests were running fine until I upgraded the kernel to linux-image-2.6.26-2-686_2.6.26-19 in the 3 boxes running Lenny. Now those b

Re: Banging my head accessing my wifi

2009-11-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 17:13:51 Kevin Ross wrote: > > From: Mathieu Malaterre [mailto:mathieu.malate...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 3:07 PM > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Tim Tebbit wrote: > > > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > >> Here is part of dmesg: > > >> [ 32

Re: Banging my head accessing my wifi

2009-11-04 Thread Tim Tebbit
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Tim Tebbit wrote: >> Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> Here is part of dmesg: >>> [ 32.017203] iwlagn :0c:00.0: firmware: requesting >>> iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode >>> [ 32.056427] iwlagn :0c:00.0: loaded firmware version 228.57.2.23 >>

RE: Banging my head accessing my wifi

2009-11-04 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Mathieu Malaterre [mailto:mathieu.malate...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 3:07 PM > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Tim Tebbit wrote: > > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >> Here is part of dmesg: > > > >> [   32.017203] iwlagn :0c:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi- >

Re: blurry fonts (again)

2009-11-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 09:55:28 -0500, Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > *Sigh* Here we go again ... > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/07/msg00692.html) > > Files containing Hebrew that I print to PDF with Iceweasel's 'Print to > File' option come out badly mangled: > > Hebrew Wikipedia home

Re: Banging my head accessing my wifi

2009-11-04 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Tim Tebbit wrote: > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Here is part of dmesg: > >> [   32.017203] iwlagn :0c:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode >> [   32.056427] iwlagn :0c:00.0: loaded firmware version 228.57.2.23 >> [   32.056564] iwlagn :0c:00.

Re: Banging my head accessing my wifi

2009-11-04 Thread Tim Tebbit
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Here is part of dmesg: > [ 32.017203] iwlagn :0c:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode > [ 32.056427] iwlagn :0c:00.0: loaded firmware version 228.57.2.23 > [ 32.056564] iwlagn :0c:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Does this mean the

Re: Compiz fails to start after an upgrade (software rasterizer in use)

2009-11-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 12:27:58 +0100, Král Gergely wrote: > On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 14:07 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > > (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled > > > (II) RADEON(0): XAA Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 > > > and newer. Please use EXA instead. > >

Re: configure xorg

2009-11-04 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 22:48:44 abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > my debian doesn't detect the video card but ubuntu live ( and other live > like linuxMint Mepis..) , I want to copy the file xorg.conf from ubuntu > live to the installed debian, problem ther is no xorg.conf or it is >

Banging my head accessing my wifi

2009-11-04 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I am trying -yet again- to access wifi from my debian/stable box. I gave up on using NetworkManager since it does not even scan or list available networks. I added the following line to /etc/network/interfaces: # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dh

Re: configure xorg

2009-11-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
abdelkader belahcene: > > my debian What version? > doesn't detect the video card but ubuntu live ( and other live > like linuxMint Mepis..) , I want to copy the file xorg.conf from ubuntu > live to the installed debian, problem ther is no xorg.conf or it is empty, > it seems that new versi

Re: How to set localhost name?

2009-11-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Phil Roan put forth on 11/4/2009 3:20 PM: > The attached file has all the header info, I've snipped the body of > the message. It's inconclusive. I suggest you contact the Windows Live Hotmail team and find out exactly why they're rejecting your mail before you burn a lot of time on what you "thi

configure xorg

2009-11-04 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, my debian doesn't detect the video card but ubuntu live ( and other live like linuxMint Mepis..) , I want to copy the file xorg.conf from ubuntu live to the installed debian, problem ther is no xorg.conf or it is empty, it seems that new version of xorg detects video card on fly, and does

Re: How to set localhost name?

2009-11-04 Thread Phil Roan
The attached file has all the header info, I've snipped the body of the message. On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 01:40:16PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Phil Roan put forth on 11/4/2009 12:45 PM: > > When I installed debian, I set the local host name on my computer to > > local2. For a long time, every

How do I make udev give me /dev/lp0 ?

2009-11-04 Thread Mark Weyer
Please CC me, I am not subscribed. I am using lenny on an amd64 with the standard kernel. The short question is in the subject. The long version follows. When trying to use my printer, I installed cups and foomatic, because the package descriptions suggested that I needed to. However, foomatic

Re: What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-04 Thread vitaminx
hi! you can also rent a vps (around $30 / month for a reasonably good one), you can install debian there to have all your data + apps online and reachable from everywhere where's an internet connection. if you only have access to windows computers you can set up putty on it to have ssh access. als

Re: What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-04 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
unforgettableid wrote: Hi all, I usually get around my city of Toronto, Canada by bicycle. I fall off my bike once a year or so. Therefore I don't carry breakable electronics like my laptop unless I know I will need them. But I sometimes need to use my Debian OS, my files, and some shell scri

Re: What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 3. Buy a 2.5" external HDD. But I'm told that when these fall, > they're much more likely to break than flash. If you buy an external 2'5" SSD disk, there's no such problem. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

How to set localhost name?

2009-11-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Phil Roan put forth on 11/4/2009 12:45 PM: > When I installed debian, I set the local host name on my computer to > local2. For a long time, everything was fine. Recently, I'm getting > mail returned to me when I send it to Windows Live Hotmail accounts. > I think the problem is that my mail prog

Re: newer python installation

2009-11-04 Thread roberto
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 12:02 +0100, roberto wrote: >> hello, i am using lenny and i need to install >> - python 2.6 and 3.0 > > You don't want to install 3.0 but the newest release of Python 3 which > would be Python 3.1.1, or is there an

Re: What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-04 Thread unforgettableid
unforgettableid gmail.com> writes: ... > 4. At http://rtr.ca/run_from_ram/ there's a tool that easily lets you use > some > union filesystem on top of flash storage to speed things up. I can set it up > to union my laptop's internal HDD on top, when it's available. ... Followup to explain how

What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-04 Thread unforgettableid
Hi all, I usually get around my city of Toronto, Canada by bicycle. I fall off my bike once a year or so. Therefore I don't carry breakable electronics like my laptop unless I know I will need them. But I sometimes need to use my Debian OS, my files, and some shell scripts I've written when I'm

How to set localhost name?

2009-11-04 Thread Phil Roan
When I installed debian, I set the local host name on my computer to local2. For a long time, everything was fine. Recently, I'm getting mail returned to me when I send it to Windows Live Hotmail accounts. I think the problem is that my mail program (Mutt, with Exim 4 as MTA) is adding the local

Re: a cautionary tale w/ successful recovery

2009-11-04 Thread Jason Spiro
Paul E Condon mesanetworks.net> writes: > My suggestion is: > > # aptitude -F "%p %M" search '~i' |tr -s ' '|sed 's/ A$/+M/' > package-list > > followed by (without change except for fixing the missing "k" > > # aptitude install $(cat package-list) > > I haven't actually tested this. It is j

Too Much Black Ink

2009-11-04 Thread David Baron
Is there any way to reduce the printing of black ink in an HP690C inkjet using CUPS or HPLIP or properties in okular, et al? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [SOLVED] problems setting up screen blanking in X

2009-11-04 Thread green
Adam Hardy (struts) wrote at 2009-11-04 07:36 -0600: > > green on 29/10/09 13:57, wrote: > >>> DPMS (Energy Star): > >>> Standby: 0Suspend: 0Off: 0 > >>> DPMS is Enabled > >>> Monitor is On > >> > > Hmm, yes, I mentioned that above. Did it work? > > I thought I would have to script

Re: puppet client etch 0.20.1 on Server Lenny 0.24.5

2009-11-04 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 02:51:00PM +0100, Anthony BERGER wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I try to install an new version of puppetmaster on a debian lenny system. > > I already have in infrastructure based on an etch server, and now, i want to > upgrade on Lenny. > > It seems that some troubles app

Dual-Head / extended desktop

2009-11-04 Thread rudu
Hi, A friend asked for my help in configuring his laptop with a video projector. He is looking for an all GUI solution. His ACER Travelmate is running Ubuntu 8.04 that he is willing to keep until the next "LTS" release. The graphic card is an ATI Radeon X700. First, using the fglrx driver with t

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

2009-11-04 Thread Aniruddha
lrhorer wrote: Other than tar and rsync, I have never used any Linux backup utilities, and I am looking for recommendations. I would like an open source solution which will do the following: 1. Back up to removable hard drives 2. Span multiple target volumes 3. Maintain a virtual fileysystem so

Re: where are the authentication settings for dovecot/imap stored?

2009-11-04 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > on a lenny system, recently, someone else went in and reconfigured > the authentication used for the mail system, and mail is currently > working fine. i now want to add a new email client (IMP, part of the > horde framework) but i obviously need to configure it to matc

Re: vmware after kernel upgrade on lenny

2009-11-04 Thread Steve Kleene
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:22:16 +, John O Laoi wrote: > I am using lenny. > I tried to use vmware workstation, and I got an error to the effect > ... > Anybody know what the problem might be? I have no experience with Workstation but have succeeded twice in getting VMware Server 1.0.6-91891 to ru

Re: Reading from a .tgz takes a long long time

2009-11-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad writes: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 08:53:04AM +, John Allen wrote: >> Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> >Hash: SHA1 >> > > [snip] >> > >> >Any ideas? >> > >> Well one idea is to stop using tar, and use a ge

Keyboard does not answer anymore after screen blanking

2009-11-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have settings on my Debian Lenny (w/ kernel 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem) so that after some minutes, my screen is blanked. The problem is that, once it has been done, my keyboard is sometimes completely ``locked,'' and I am thus unable to type my cre

Re: apt-get update segmentation fault

2009-11-04 Thread Christopher Judd
On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Thomas H. George wrote: > just ran apt-get update with the following result: > > ... > > E: Method rred has died unexpectedly! > E: Sub-process rred received a segmentation fault. > dragon:~# exit > > Script done on Wed 04 Nov 2009 08:53:24 AM EST > > I am using

sound problems

2009-11-04 Thread Rick Pasotto
I'm mostly up-to-date with testing and I remember that some sound modules were recently updated. For the most part sound is still working fine but for some formats it's not. With m4a files and some wmv files all I get is sporadic static. mp3 and flv and avi files are all fine. Has anyone else expe

Re: rred segfault during aptitude update?

2009-11-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 08:56:25AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> Hi: >> >> This morning, I found my X screen frozen right after update manager >> had done its daily update.  I was able to ctl-alt-bksp out of X.  I >> ran aptitude from the co

VsFTPd "553: Could not create file" error (once in a while)

2009-11-04 Thread Fili
Hi there, I was wondering if anyone on this mailinglist could help me. Recently I've upgraded a server running vsftpd (on debian lenny) from 32bit to 64bit wide architecture. Also the filesystem (with the user-files) has been reformatted from ext3 to xfs for performance reasons. Vsftpd remained

Re: apt-get update segmentation fault

2009-11-04 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:58:07 -0500 "Thomas H. George" wrote: > just ran apt-get update with the following result: i) read today's postings to the list ii) google the error iii) use the BTS Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net

Re: Iceweasel toolbars disappear

2009-11-04 Thread godo
Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Some web pages turn off all the toolbars so the only thing that can be done is close the window. Is there any setting that will disable the ability to do this? TIA, Dennis Try to disable java script and maybe flash in browser. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvats

apt-get update segmentation fault

2009-11-04 Thread Thomas H. George
just ran apt-get update with the following result: Script started on Wed 04 Nov 2009 08:53:03 AM EST dragon:~# apt-get update 0% [Working] Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg 8% [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers] [Logging in]

blurry fonts (again)

2009-11-04 Thread Celejar
Hi, *Sigh* Here we go again ... (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/07/msg00692.html) Files containing Hebrew that I print to PDF with Iceweasel's 'Print to File' option come out badly mangled: Hebrew Wikipedia homepage: http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%A8%D7%90

Re: a cautionary tale w/ successful recovery

2009-11-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091103_114547, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 03 November 2009 10:38:41 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:08:00PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: > > >> For the sysems I back up at work, we do the dpkg --get-selections > > >> t

Re: ldap over ssl help

2009-11-04 Thread Rob McBroom
On Nov 4, 2009, at 5:41 AM, vitaminx wrote: I'm trying to setup a secure ldap server, it works fine over the standard port 389 now. but since i access the server remotely i'd like to use ldap over ssl over port 636. however i can't find any howto's for setting that up on debian (i'm working

Iceweasel toolbars disappear

2009-11-04 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Some web pages turn off all the toolbars so the only thing that can be done is close the window. Is there any setting that will disable the ability to do this? TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Squeeze: Sub - Process rred received segmentation fault

2009-11-04 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:04:34 +0200 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Jason Filippou wrote: ... > > E: Method rred has died unexpectedly! > > E: Sub-process rred received a segmentation fault. ... > There is already a relevant bug submitted for package 'apt'. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cg

Re: rred segfault during aptitude update?

2009-11-04 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 08:56:25AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi: > > This morning, I found my X screen frozen right after update manager > had done its daily update. I was able to ctl-alt-bksp out of X. I > ran aptitude from the command line, and it failed, reporting that > method rred had

Re: rred segfault during aptitude update?

2009-11-04 Thread Alexis de BRUYN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Patrick, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > ran aptitude from the command line, and it failed, reporting that > method rred had segfaulted. This is more a heads up than anything; I You can check this http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/11/msg00225.htm

rred segfault during aptitude update?

2009-11-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi: This morning, I found my X screen frozen right after update manager had done its daily update. I was able to ctl-alt-bksp out of X. I ran aptitude from the command line, and it failed, reporting that method rred had segfaulted. This is more a heads up than anything; I guess I'll try again l

where are the authentication settings for dovecot/imap stored?

2009-11-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
on a lenny system, recently, someone else went in and reconfigured the authentication used for the mail system, and mail is currently working fine. i now want to add a new email client (IMP, part of the horde framework) but i obviously need to configure it to match whatever the new mail authent

[SOLVED] problems setting up screen blanking in X

2009-11-04 Thread Adam Hardy (struts)
> green on 29/10/09 13:57, wrote: >>> DPMS (Energy Star): >>> Standby: 0Suspend: 0Off: 0 >>> DPMS is Enabled >>> Monitor is On >> > Hmm, yes, I mentioned that above. Did it work? I thought I would have to script the xset -dpms command but the screen blanking behaviour is now (4 day

Re: Squeeze: Sub - Process rred received segmentation fault

2009-11-04 Thread Alexis de BRUYN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jason, Look at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/11/msg00225.html Jason Filippou wrote: > E: Method rred has died unexpectedly! > E: Sub-process rred received a segmentation fault. > > Am I to assume that there's some kind of issue with ap

Re: Squeeze: Sub - Process rred received segmentation fault

2009-11-04 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Jason Filippou wrote: Hello, I was executing aptitude update and noticed the followin output after a sequence of 'hit's, 'ign's and 'get's: Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main 2009-11-02-1520.49.pdiff [18.3kB] Get:3 http://http

Re: aptitude update crashes

2009-11-04 Thread Alexis de BRUYN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Hans, Try : {{{ sudo apt-get update -o Acquire::Pdiffs=false sudo apt-get upgrade }}} This solved this issue for me this morning. Best regards, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi all, > > when I try to get an update, I get the following error message

Squeeze: Sub - Process rred received segmentation fault

2009-11-04 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, I was executing aptitude update and noticed the followin output after a sequence of 'hit's, 'ign's and 'get's: Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main 2009-11-02-1520.49.pdiff [18.3kB] Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/con

ldap over ssl help

2009-11-04 Thread vitaminx
Hello, I'm trying to setup a secure ldap server, it works fine over the standard port 389 now. but since i access the server remotely i'd like to use ldap over ssl over port 636. however i can't find any howto's for setting that up on debian (i'm working on testing). so i would be happy if anyone

vmware after kernel upgrade on lenny

2009-11-04 Thread John O Laoi
Hello I am using lenny. I tried to use vmware workstation, and I got an error to the effect that it could not find kernel headers. So a little Googling told me that I had to do aptitude install linux-headers-$(uname -r) and /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl But the above file did not exist. So, I ran

pretty print diff OR print terminal output in color

2009-11-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I don't seem to be able to figure this out with google or /usr/share/doc, aptitude search etc.: Does Debian (lenny) have any tools to pretty print coloured terminal output (from colordiff, git diff etc.)? Preferably, I would like to print in

Re: Reading from a .tgz takes a long long time

2009-11-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 08:53:04AM +, John Allen wrote: > Merciadri Luca wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > [snip] > > > >Any ideas? > > > Well one idea is to stop using tar, and use a generational rsync > backup tool instead. > > One such tool is http://rsnapshot.o

Re: Reading from a .tgz takes a long long time

2009-11-04 Thread John Allen
Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello folks, I use tar to make (not necessarily incremental) backups of my /etc/*, /home/*, and other important folders. I am encountering a problem: reading a file in a .tgz takes a really long time. I use the Archive Manager

Bluetooth not working

2009-11-04 Thread John Jason Jordan
I have used Ubuntu for a couple of years, but I never poked under the hood much. I have just installed 64-bit Debian testing on my Thinkpad T61 and am trying to get everything working. The Thinkpad has built-in bluetooth, which is recognized by Debian. However, I have a Razer bluetooth mouse and I

Re: 2.6.31 kernels

2009-11-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 07:53:15PM -0500, Colin wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: > >isn't there some issue with the broadcom-sta drivers and .31 ? > > > > The broadcom-sta source code that was included in non-free Debian > would no longer compile with kernel 2.6.31. That's why they've been > working on

Re: 2.6.31 kernels

2009-11-04 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Colin wrote: Alex Samad wrote: isn't there some issue with the broadcom-sta drivers and .31 ? The broadcom-sta source code that was included in non-free Debian would no longer compile with kernel 2.6.31. That's why they've been working on the b43 driver extensively in the 2.6.32 kernel so

Gyere és csatlakozz hozzám a Mozgás H álózata portálon.

2009-11-04 Thread Heni
Mozgás Hálózata: Szia! Ez a kedvenc oldalam. Fitneszről, egészséges életmódról, fogyásról, mozgásról szól. Arra gondoltam, talán téged is érdekelhet. Ha regisztrálsz, keress meg. Heni Az alábbi hivatkozásra kattintva csatlakozhat: http://www.mozgas.info/?xgi=0lWRLANTD5Gf15