On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 15:02 +, T o n g wrote:
> 1st of all, thanks everyone that responded.
>
> On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:16:57 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
>
> > Check http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse
> >
> > I am particularly fond of wpa_supplicant in roaming mode [1] but you
> > mig
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John Hasler wrote:
> Clive writes:
>> It does help the OP since he uses apt-get, but what about the people
>> who normally use aptitude?
>
> If you are only using it for downloads (usual) it doesn't matter.
Certainly so. What I meant to ask is what t
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009, I had written:
> I don't have proper fan control of my Toshiba L305 series
> laptop. The way I control the fan is by restarting the
> laptop immediately after an overheating shutdown. This
> somehow locks the fan on its maximum setting.
>
> Toshiba has not been forthcoming
Hello List,
thanks for your replies.
To summarize, I can just forget it.
Thanks,
Jerome
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello List,
I am writing some C code which involves ASCII characters:
in C related books, we can find a lot of comments about
ASCII character issues, as far as we are concern with por
Ron Johnson wrote at 2010-04-09 00:00 -0500:
> On 2010-04-08 22:36, green wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >I am using mutt. I had procmail set up to drop messages in
> >different maildir boxes. Then I switched to mailfilter. And
> >because it is such a pain when a new mailing list is added (or
> >whatever
Mirco Piccin put forth on 4/9/2010 6:48 PM:
> Hi, thanks for replies.
>
it's possible to manage a SCSI tape library (IBM 3581) with ISCSI?
I need to use that library attached to a server into another server...
>>>
>>> well, the aim is to share the tape library across the network..
>>> Is
Chris Hiestand wrote:
On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-07 13:52, Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
[snip]
That's a foolish thing to do, since blind acceptance can lead to a broken
system.
Maybe so, but I've been using automatic upgrades for the last 2-3 years on many
stable sy
Stephen Powell writes:
> These are some of the issues that someone writing portable code for
> ASCII vs. EBCDIC implementations needs to worry about.
But only library authors should need to worry about them. Application
programmers should use appropriate library calls.
--
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Clive writes:
> It does help the OP since he uses apt-get, but what about the people
> who normally use aptitude?
If you are only using it for downloads (usual) it doesn't matter.
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On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 17:55:56 -0400 (EDT), Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 22:42, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> This is exactly the reason I chose Debian 10 years ago when I was looking
>> for my first Linux distro. I told a friend I wanted a server distro that
>> wasn't going to spoon feed
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 17:57:04 -0400 (EDT), John Hasler wrote:
> Stephen Powell writes:
>> Yes, Hercules is an IBM mainframe emulator. But the problem is
>> licensing. There are some *very old* releases of IBM operating
>> systems that have passed into the public domain that you can run on
>> the He
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 16:35:43 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>> That is not the proper procedure. Read the release notes.
>>> The most important step you missed is to issue "aptitude dist-upg
Hi Luca,
> I have a PDF document that I want to lock for some features, such as
> content extraction, and printing.
If you want to use a shell command, you can use the pdftk package.
You can set encryption, allow/disallow fetaure (printing, copy, etc)...
Or you can use java iText library, and wr
Hi, thanks for replies.
>>> it's possible to manage a SCSI tape library (IBM 3581) with ISCSI?
>>> I need to use that library attached to a server into another server...
>>
>> well, the aim is to share the tape library across the network..
>> Is there a way (iscsi or other) to do the job?
> What
As some of you might know, the transition to dependency based
boot / insserv is causing the following lines:
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script `ntp'
overwrites defaults (empty).
Is it safe for the system administrator to issue
update-rc.d remove defaul
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Ron Johnson wrote:
> Anyway, the cron-apt package does what you want. It is recommended,
> though, to use it only for downloads.
It does help the OP since he uses apt-get, but what about the people who
normally use aptitude? There's no "cron-aptitude
I don't think the OP meant mainfraimes...
I'd stick with ANSI/ISO C plus UTF-8, there are random examples and
stuff on the net. If you can, post your findings, i'd be curious
(living on the nonASCII part of the world) for general guidelines,
do's and don't's.
--
() ascii-rubanda kampajno - kont
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 04:44:46PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Ron Johnson put forth on 4/8/2010 9:58 PM:
> > On 2010-04-08 21:38, Stephen Powell wrote:
> > [snip]
> >>
> >> For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head:
> >>
> >>Give a man a fish and you feed him for a da
Stephen Powell wrote:
If you've been around that long, then why is it that you didn't know to
reply to the list instead of to me personally? Please post *and* reply
*only* to the list. You can CC someone if they ask for a CC, but always
include the list as one of your recipients.
As I said m
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Hi,
I have a PDF document that I want to lock for some features, such as
content extraction, and printing. I know that these locks can be
bypassed, but I also know that the persons I am going to send the PDF
to are completely unaware of the existence
Mirco Piccin put forth on 4/9/2010 9:39 AM:
> Hi,
>
>> it's possible to manage a SCSI tape library (IBM 3581) with ISCSI?
>> I need to use that library attached to a server into another server...
>
> well, the aim is to share the tape library across the network..
> Is there a way (iscsi or other)
Stephen Powell writes:
> Yes, Hercules is an IBM mainframe emulator. But the problem is
> licensing. There are some *very old* releases of IBM operating
> systems that have passed into the public domain that you can run on
> the Hercules emulator.
Which should suffice for testing his software wi
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 22:42, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> This is exactly the reason I chose Debian 10 years ago when I was looking
> for my first Linux distro. I told a friend I wanted a server distro that
> wasn't going to spoon feed me, but make me learn something about Linux.
Slackware is usuall
Ron Johnson put forth on 4/8/2010 9:58 PM:
> On 2010-04-08 21:38, Stephen Powell wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head:
>>
>>Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
>>Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
>>
>> I'd rathe
Stephen Powell put forth on 4/8/2010 9:38 PM:
> For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head:
>
>Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
>Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
>
> I'd rather learn to fish.
This is exactly the reason I chose Debi
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 16:35:43 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> That is not the proper procedure. Read the release notes.
>> The most important step you missed is to issue "aptitude dist-upgrade"
>> *before* the "aptitude full-upgrade", but there ar
AG wrote:
Prior to squeeze upgrade this morning I could happily mount my
camera. Now I cannot - it tells me that I don't have the permissions.
As root, I have tried to change the permissions that my user has to
include mounting user system files (FUSE), but still nothing.
Has anyone else id
>
>
>
> Original Message
>From: jgm...@rezozer.net
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: RE: non-ASCII environment
>Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:14:14 +0800
>
>>Hello List,
>>
>>I am writing some C code which involves ASCII characters:
>>in C related books, we can find a lot of comments
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:43:12 -0400 (EDT), Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:58:22 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
>>>
>>> Migrating from Lenny to Squeeze (or any migration, really) is tricky.
>>
>> I know. I manage fine
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:43:12 -0400 (EDT), Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:58:22 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> Migrating from Lenny to Squeeze (or any migration, really) is tricky.
>>
>
> I know. I manage fine from bo 2 hamm, from hamm 2 potato, from
> potato 2 woody
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 09:14, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I am writing some C code which involves ASCII characters:
> in C related books, we can find a lot of comments about
> ASCII character issues, as far as we are concern with portability.
>
> Nevertheless, something bothers me: wher
i'm contacting this list because i believe that it will have a high
concentration of people who may be interested in having a
non-Intel-based 100% free software compatible laptop: if i am mistaken
in that assumption, i apologise: feel free to hit delete and ignore
this message.
in order to avoid s
Stephen Powell wrote:
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:41:43 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
How come the latest linux-image-2.6-686 in Sid is:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-headers-2.6-686
and is set to linux-image-2.6-686 (2.6.32+24) while apt-cache policy
linux-image-2.6-686 gives:
linux
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:32:14 -0400 (EDT), Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
> When I close a PPP connection with `C-c', the keyboard gets stuck and I have
> to
> reboot the system. The problem is reported here:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508589
>
> In the hope of fixing it by up
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:41:43 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> How come the latest linux-image-2.6-686 in Sid is:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-headers-2.6-686
>
> and is set to linux-image-2.6-686 (2.6.32+24) while apt-cache policy
> linux-image-2.6-686 gives:
>
> linux-image-
Prior to squeeze upgrade this morning I could happily mount my camera.
Now I cannot - it tells me that I don't have the permissions.
As root, I have tried to change the permissions that my user has to
include mounting user system files (FUSE), but still nothing.
Has anyone else identified th
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:50:43 -0400 (EDT), John Hasler wrote:
> Jerome BENOIT writes:
>> Nevertheless, something bothers me: where non-ASCII environment can be
>> found ? Furthermore, can such an environment be created on a Debian
>> box ? The aim is to check the portability of my code.
>
> Look a
On 09.04.2010 16:50, Jasper wrote:
>
>
>> if I only execute one command on true/false conditions, I prefer:
>> command && react_true || react_false
>>
>
> Although this generally works it is not correct:
>
> If 'react_true' fails for some reason then 'react_false' is also executed.
>
> --Jaspe
When I close a PPP connection with `C-c', the keyboard gets stuck and I have to
reboot the system. The problem is reported here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508589
In the hope of fixing it by updating the kernel, I want to install a freshly
new one from the backport reposit
Jerome BENOIT writes:
> Nevertheless, something bothers me: where non-ASCII environment can be
> found ? Furthermore, can such an environment be created on a Debian
> box ? The aim is to check the portability of my code.
Look at the Hercules System/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture Emulator. I
be
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:18:29 -0400 (EDT), Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>> Hello List,
>>
>> I am writing some C code which involves ASCII characters:
>> in C related books, we can find a lot of comments about
>> ASCII character issues, as far as we are conce
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> How come the latest linux-image-2.6-686 in Sid is:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-headers-2.6-686
>
> and is set to linux-image-2.6-686 (2.6.32+24) while apt-cache policy
> linux-image-2.6-686 gives:
>
> linux-image-2.6-686:
> In
On Sex, 09 Abr 2010, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello List,
I am writing some C code which involves ASCII characters:
in C related books, we can find a lot of comments about
ASCII character issues, as far as we are concern with portability.
Nevertheless, something bothers me: where non-ASCII environm
On 2010-04-09 11:04, Paul E Condon wrote:
[snip]
But ... Why does the output say that the disk was modified
during the run? There were no badblocks found. What needed
modification?
Good question.
Do you have similar magic for dumpe2fs?
Nope.
Of course your output presented here indicates
Hello List,
I am writing some C code which involves ASCII characters:
in C related books, we can find a lot of comments about
ASCII character issues, as far as we are concern with portability.
Nevertheless, something bothers me: where non-ASCII environment can be found ?
Furthermore, can such a
T o n g wrote:
Hi,
I always use wired network for my laptop because I don't know how to
properly get wireless going. I've been to web sites like the following
but they all look rather complicated.
The basics of wireless LAN interface
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/
ch05.en.html#
On 20100409_102442, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-04-08 20:27, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >On 2010-04-08 19:44, Paul E Condon wrote:
> >>I want to use the low cost high capacity hard drives that are
> >>for sale in places like Best Buy and Costco. I have put ext3 on
> >>several of them and started experim
On 4/9/2010 10:41 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
How come the latest linux-image-2.6-686 in Sid is:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-headers-2.6-686
and is set to linux-image-2.6-686 (2.6.32+24) while apt-cache policy
linux-image-2.6-686 gives:
linux-image-2.6-686:
Installed: 2.6.32+25
Ca
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 16:41, Wayne wrote:
> I guess it may be a sign of the times. The world has changed over the past
> 16+ years since I first joined this list. Sadly, for this list, not for the
> better. Maybe if we stressed your points 2,3,4, it might change for the
> better. One can onl
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
[snip]
> Stability issues and updates are the reasons that I switched _to_
> Ubuntu! Before that it was the early Fedoras. I still think that my
> favourite two Linux OSes were Fedora Core 3 and Ubuntu Feisty.
>
> Maybe I will give Squeeze a roun
Hi,
How come the latest linux-image-2.6-686 in Sid is:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-headers-2.6-686
and is set to linux-image-2.6-686 (2.6.32+24) while apt-cache policy
linux-image-2.6-686 gives:
linux-image-2.6-686:
Installed: 2.6.32+25
Candidate: 2.6.32+25
Version table:
***
Stephen Powell wrote:
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 23:00:39 -0400 (EDT), Dotan Cohen wrote:
Stephen Powell wrote:
For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head:
 Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
 Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I'd rather learn
On 4/9/2010 10:39 AM, Mirco Piccin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > it's possible to manage a SCSI tape library (IBM 3581) with ISCSI?
> > I need to use that library attached to a server into another server...
>
> well, the aim is to share the tape library across the network..
> Is there a way (iscsi or other) t
steef wrote:
hi folk,
got myself a asusrock standard atx mobo with a gforce 9400 (nvidia) in a
pci-express slot. i have to use the 195 4driver from *their* site. the
standard lenny driver for nvidia does not support this hardware. (or am
i wrong??)
well: everything works fine except for ane
On 2010-04-08 20:27, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-08 19:44, Paul E Condon wrote:
I want to use the low cost high capacity hard drives that are
for sale in places like Best Buy and Costco. I have put ext3 on
several of them and started experimenting. The results so far
are puzzling.
I do get err
> if I only execute one command on true/false conditions, I prefer:
> command && react_true || react_false
>
Although this generally works it is not correct:
If 'react_true' fails for some reason then 'react_false' is also executed.
--Jasper.
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1st of all, thanks everyone that responded.
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:16:57 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> Check http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse
>
> I am particularly fond of wpa_supplicant in roaming mode [1] but you
> might want to take a look at wicd or network-mangler as well.
I've rea
The info you guys shared is much appreciated - this gives me a good
idea of direction and what routes to take.
Thank you,
Abraham
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Abraham Chaffin
> wrote:
>> What training / certification courses woul
Hi,
> it's possible to manage a SCSI tape library (IBM 3581) with ISCSI?
> I need to use that library attached to a server into another server...
well, the aim is to share the tape library across the network..
Is there a way (iscsi or other) to do the job?
Regards
M
T o n g wrote:
Hi,
I always use wired network for my laptop because I don't know how to
properly get wireless going. I've been to web sites like the following
but they all look rather complicated.
The basics of wireless LAN interface
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/
ch05.en.html#
Sushil Mishra skrev:
When i try to open pymol by terminal thsi is producing fallowing error--
sus...@sushilnb:~$ pymol
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pymol//__init__.py", line 32,
in
from copy import
On Friday 09 April 2010 15:16:57 Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 13:19 +, T o n g wrote:
> > I always use wired network for my laptop because I don't know how to
> > properly get wireless going. I've been to web sites like the following
> > but they all look rather complicated
Hi all,
it's possible to manage a SCSI tape library (IBM 3581) with ISCSI?
I need to use that library attached to a server into another server...
Thanks
Regards
M
**
On Qui, 08 Abr 2010, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
Should I move over to gmail, or is
there some amazing scriptable GUI mail client that is going to knock my
socks off with an array of pipes and regexps and color-highlighting and
maybe even procmail-parsing and custom keybinding?
If that is what you a
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 13:19 +, T o n g wrote:
> I always use wired network for my laptop because I don't know how to
> properly get wireless going. I've been to web sites like the following
> but they all look rather complicated.
> Now I want to try just again. So, what packages do I need
Chris wrote:
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:40:12 +0200
godo wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Hi,
I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian
Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses
x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want.
"update-alternatives --install"
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:19:54 + (UTC)
T o n g wrote:
...
> Now I want to try just again. So, what packages do I need to install in
> order to get my wire-networked laptop going wireless? What are the
> configuration (and troubleshooting) steps?
wireless-tools - the classic tools for access
On 2010-04-08 23:38, Chris wrote:
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:40:12 +0200
godo wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Hi,
I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian
Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses
x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want.
"update-alt
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 05:58:32 -0400 (EDT), Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
>
> I just migrate my desktop from lenny to squeeze and after installing all
> new packages and reboot the system hang at the boot process asking for
> the root password because it can't find /dev/sdaX, where X=2,6,7,8,9.
> Al
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:02:06 +0200, steef wrote:
> got myself a asusrock standard atx mobo with a gforce 9400 (nvidia) in a
> pci-express slot. i have to use the 195 4driver from *their* site. the
> standard lenny driver for nvidia does not support this hardware. (or am
> i wrong??)
Mmmm... is th
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 23:00:39 -0400 (EDT), Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>> For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head:
>>
>> Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
>> Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
>>
>> I'd rather learn to fish.
>
Hi,
I always use wired network for my laptop because I don't know how to
properly get wireless going. I've been to web sites like the following
but they all look rather complicated.
The basics of wireless LAN interface
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/
ch05.en.html#_the_basics_of_wir
When i try to open pymol by terminal thsi is producing fallowing error--
sus...@sushilnb:~$ pymol
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pymol//__init__.py", line 32, in
from copy import deepcopy
ImportError: No
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Bob McGowan wrote:
> On 04/08/2010 07:17 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:57:17 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
>>> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:09:09 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
BTW, does anyone know why Ubuntu users seem to
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Subject:gforce 9400
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:02:06 +0200
From: steef
Reply-To: debian.li...@home.nl
To: debian
hi folk,
got myself a asusrock standard atx mobo with a gforce 9400 (nvidia) in a
pci-express slot. i have to use the 195
> On 2010-04-08 20:48, Kaicheng Zhang wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>> I have to ssh to a server A and then ssh to server B where I do my
>> job. Therefore scp cannot work well when I want transfer files between
>> remote and host machine.
>> I used secureCRT in Windows, and its feature allow me to
Hi,
I just migrate my desktop from lenny to squeeze and after installing all
new packages and reboot the system hang at the boot process asking for
the root password because it can't find /dev/sdaX, where X=2,6,7,8,9.
All are valid partitions. root is /dev/sda5 and it is the only partition
mo
hi folk,
got myself a asusrock standard atx mobo with a gforce 9400 (nvidia) in a
pci-express slot. i have to use the 195 4driver from *their* site. the
standard lenny driver for nvidia does not support this hardware. (or am
i wrong??)
well: everything works fine except for ane thing: someti
On Fri,09.Apr.10, 00:00:11, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-04-08 22:36, green wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >I am using mutt. I had procmail set up to drop messages in
> >different maildir boxes. Then I switched to mailfilter. And
> >because it is such a pain when a new mailing list is added (or
> >whatev
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 06:56:53PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Tyler writes:
> > Should I move over to gmail, or is there some amazing scriptable GUI
> > mail client that is going to knock my socks off with an array of pipes
> > and regexps and color-highlighting and maybe even procmail-parsing and
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