Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-19 Thread Dale
Hi Phil, On 20 September 2010 11:37, Phil Requirements wrote: > The scheme that is called Light does not seem very light to me.  I see > that it has more contrast than the Dark theme, but it still uses a > dark background and dark window titles. Overall, it still looks like a > dark theme to me,

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/09/10 14:12, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Jerry Stuckle writes: >> And as to the suggestions from other users to try another VM - that's >> not open for discussion unless you can tell my why the one that comes >> with Windows 7 doesn't work. > It's fairly difficult to answer such a guestio

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jerry Stuckle writes: > And as to the suggestions from other users to try another VM - that's > not open for discussion unless you can tell my why the one that comes > with Windows 7 doesn't work. It's fairly difficult to answer such a guestion, especially without source code to Windows 7 :-)

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/09/10 10:15, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > This is a new install of Lenny on Windows 7 Virtual PC. I basically > took the defaults, with a couple of changes to get it to install and > get gnome's display correct. > > I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one > to find i

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/09/10 13:11, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 9/19/2010 10:00 PM, Mark Allums wrote: >> On 9/19/2010 8:41 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> >>> And as to the suggestions from other users to try another VM - that's >>> not open for discussion unless you can tell my why the one that comes >>> with Windows

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/19/2010 10:11 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: As I said - unless you can tell me WHY it doesn't work, it's not open for discussion. The fact you tried it with one distro and don't like Microsoft are NOT valid reasons. I did not say I don't like Microsoft. I tried it with seven distros. Grant

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/19/2010 10:00 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/19/2010 8:41 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: And as to the suggestions from other users to try another VM - that's not open for discussion unless you can tell my why the one that comes with Windows 7 doesn't work. It doesn't work because it doesn't work

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:48:49 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > Your problem is probably Virtual PC. Try Virtualbox (free) or VMware > server (free) or VMware Desktop (paid and kind of expensive but much > more usable for newbies than server). Its a known problem. very much a known problem! its some

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-19 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2010-09-18 22:31:06 +0930, Dale wrote: > Hi All, > > I have done some more work and now have 2 styles going so people can > choose either the light or the dark. All can be found on the wiki[1] > at the the usual place. > > Comments and/or suggestions more than welcome :-) > > On 17 September

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/19/2010 8:41 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: And as to the suggestions from other users to try another VM - that's not open for discussion unless you can tell my why the one that comes with Windows 7 doesn't work. It doesn't work because it doesn't work. Microsoft doesn't care if any OS besides

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/19/2010 8:23 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Jerry Stuckle writes: I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one to find is an "Illegal Instruction" when I run a simple ps command. This occurs whether I run as a user or root. So gnome starts but ps fails? Very odd

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-19 Thread Dale
On 20 September 2010 06:50, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Dale wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I have done some more work and now have 2 styles going so people can >> choose either the light or the dark. All can be found on the wiki[1] >> at the the usual place. >> >> Comments

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/19/2010 7:15 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: This is a new install of Lenny on Windows 7 Virtual PC. I basically took the defaults, with a couple of changes to get it to install and get gnome's display correct. I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one to find is an "Il

RE: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Mike Viau
> On Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:15:42 -0400 > > This is a new install of Lenny on Windows 7 Virtual PC. I basically > took the defaults, with a couple of changes to get it to install and get > gnome's display correct. > > I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one to > fi

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jerry Stuckle writes: > I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one > to find is an "Illegal Instruction" when I run a simple ps command. > This occurs whether I run as a user or root. So gnome starts but ps fails? Very odd. Please 1) apt-get install debsums 2) debsums

ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
This is a new install of Lenny on Windows 7 Virtual PC. I basically took the defaults, with a couple of changes to get it to install and get gnome's display correct. I still have several problems, which may be related. The easiest one to find is an "Illegal Instruction" when I run a simple p

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-19 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Dale wrote: > Hi All, > > I have done some more work and now have 2 styles going so people can > choose either the light or the dark. All can be found on the wiki[1] > at the the usual place. > > Comments and/or suggestions more than welcome :-) > > Regards > Dale

Re: how to use wireless without network-manager or wicd

2010-09-19 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 19. 09. 2010 19:04:41 je hugo vanwoerkom napisal(a): Hi, I run a laptop with lenny and debian kernel 2.6.32 that runs wireless. I connected to the laptop via USB a disk that contains a partition that also has debian kernel 2.6.32 but sid and that doesn't have network manager or wicd in

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:17:19 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: >> > It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people >> > started >> > to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that >> > people >> > sent me. What's your solution to it (word and excel)? >> > >> > > The be

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 19 September 2010 07:52:09 Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 19. 09. 2010 15:41:40 je T o n g napisal(a): > > Hi, > > > > It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people > > started > > to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that > > people > > sent me. What'

Re: how to use wireless without network-manager or wicd

2010-09-19 Thread Eric Viseur
http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse This will give you a good starting point. Past the wicd instructions you'll see how to configure a wireless card from /etc/network/interfaces. It's basically the same as a wired card plus some extra parameters for the wireless protection. 2010/9/19 hugo vanwo

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Eric Viseur
Must agree with Dotan. OOo 3.2 was a big step forward to a really efficient MSOffice alternative and should really be used instead of older versions when possible. 2010/9/19 Dotan Cohen > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 16:51, Lisi wrote: > > No need. The version of OOo in Lenny, 2.4.1, (which is rea

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 17:00, Camaleón wrote: > I've encountered many ".docx" files that cannot be opened with my stock > OOo writer (using lenny here). > Camaleón and others, please send to me (in private mail) MSO files that do not display well in Open Office. I will file bugs on the matter an

how to use wireless without network-manager or wicd

2010-09-19 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi, I run a laptop with lenny and debian kernel 2.6.32 that runs wireless. I connected to the laptop via USB a disk that contains a partition that also has debian kernel 2.6.32 but sid and that doesn't have network manager or wicd installed. How would I get wireless going without them on tha

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 16:51, Lisi wrote: >  No need.  The version of OOo in Lenny, 2.4.1, (which is really, of course, > the oxygen version), can read docx files. > OOo 3.0 was much better than 2.x for reading .docx files, and OOo 3.1 was even better. Google For OOo Ninja's articles on the matt

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 19 September 2010 16:00:04 Camaleón wrote: > I've encountered many ".docx" files that cannot be opened with my stock > OOo writer (using lenny here). I've obviously been lucky! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 19. 09. 2010 15:41:40 je T o n g napisal(a): Hi, It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people started to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that people sent me. What's your solution to it (word and excel)? Thanks You could kindly notify th

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread John Lindsay
Lisi wrote: On Sunday 19 September 2010 11:29:44 John Lindsay wrote: Lisi wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2010 22:50:05 John Lindsay wrote: Here is my 'fstab' # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdef

Re: rsync issue

2010-09-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > [...] the following is good for me: > > $ cd > $ rsync -vrtul --delete --exclude='.*' . 192.168.0.2:/home/rodolfo Sorry, it's still bad for me. I want to copy everything but top level hidden files, i.e. hidden files from my home directory. The above command excludes

[solved] Re: Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive

2010-09-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 2010-09-19 10:26 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> When I try to copy more than 40MB onto an empty new 2GB usb pendrive, I get >> an inexplicable `No space left on device' error message: >> >> >> `11022008699.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008699.jpg' >> `11022008700.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:51:26 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 19 September 2010 15:19:16 Rob Owens wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 02:02:27PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> > OpenOffice 3.x (Go-oo) can handle most of them (.docx/.xlsx). >> >> And if you're running Lenny, you can get this version in the

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 19 September 2010 15:19:16 Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 02:02:27PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:41:40 +, T o n g wrote: > > > It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people > > > started to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Of

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 19 September 2010 11:29:44 John Lindsay wrote: > Lisi wrote: > > On Saturday 18 September 2010 22:50:05 John Lindsay wrote: > >> Here is my 'fstab' > >> > >>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > >>> # > >>> # > >>> proc/proc procdefaul

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 19 September 2010 11:23:20 John Lindsay wrote: > Here is the result of 'df > -lh'. > > > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/sda1              71G   58G  9.8G  86% / [snip] > > /dev/sda1             1.9T  123M  1.9T   1% /mnt Curiouser and curiouser Now w

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 02:02:27PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:41:40 +, T o n g wrote: > > > It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people > > started to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that > > people sent me. What's your soluti

Re: RS232-to-USB adapter with dial-up modem

2010-09-19 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
S D wrote: Hi, I have a RS-232 external dial-up modem that I use from time to time. It works fine when connected through a RS-232 port. I'd like to use the modem with another PC that doesn't have a RS-232 port, so I bought a RS-232 to USB adapter cable. It's a simple inexpensive cable that do

RE: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Mike Viau
> On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:02:27 + wrote: > >> On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:41:40 +, T o n g wrote: >> >> It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people >> started to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that >> people sent me. What's your solution to it (wo

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:41:40 +, T o n g wrote: > It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people > started to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that > people sent me. What's your solution to it (word and excel)? OpenOffice 3.x (Go-oo) can handle most o

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/09/10 23:41, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people started > to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that people > sent me. What's your solution to it (word and excel)? > > Thanks > OOo. (and send a bitmap screenshot

I got you. was: My lenny picks the wrong resolution whereas squeeze is right

2010-09-19 Thread T o n g
Hi Stephen, This is to confirm that I've read your message thoroughly and take it seriously. However, I can only get back to you in a day or two. Thanks On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:49:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > OK, I have looked at your files. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) ht

Re: Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive

2010-09-19 Thread Frank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:15:06 +0200 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On 2010-09-19 10:26 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > When I try to copy more than 40MB onto an empty new 2GB usb pendrive, I get > > an > > inexplicable `No space left on device' error me

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:50:05 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > I am still trying to get this USB drive to show up as an icon on the > desktop and to show up under the toolbar 'Places' like my 8GB USB memory > stick and my /new-disk hdb (115GB internal drive). Then try by removing (or just #comment)

Re: What tool would convert map coordinates ?

2010-09-19 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Bernard writes: > I need to convert map coordinates from Lambert II + to decimal > degrees. I found a tool which works online on a web site, but the I use the proj command for my coordinate conversions. I have no idea if it supports what you need. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive

2010-09-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 2010-09-19 10:26 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > When I try to copy more than 40MB onto an empty new 2GB usb pendrive, I get an > inexplicable `No space left on device' error message: > > > `11022008699.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008699.jpg' > `11022008700.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carol

Re: Does the HDCP crack have any implications for Debian?

2010-09-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 19/09/10 06:04, Mark Allums wrote: > On 9/18/2010 4:55 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> I'm very >> happy with the performance I get by simply copying the bluerays I buy to >> hard drive, and I prefer keep my media on hdd. > > > This bears some explanation. Are you watching stuff from Blu-Ray on a

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread John Lindsay
John Lindsay wrote: Lisi wrote: I don't know whther it is at all relevant, but your fstab appears to be trying to mount two different drives on the same mount point (/). Lisi Actually it is the 'mtab' that shows the two '/dev/sda1' entries. I'll try editing it and see what damage I

Re: Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive

2010-09-19 Thread Erwan David
Le Sun 19/09/2010, Rodolfo Medina disait > Hi all. > > When I try to copy more than 40MB onto an empty new 2GB usb pendrive, I get an > inexplicable `No space left on device' error message: > > > `11022008699.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008699.jpg' > `11022008700.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread John Lindsay
Lisi wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2010 22:50:05 John Lindsay wrote: Here is my 'fstab' # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3errors=remount-ro 0

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread John Lindsay
Lisi wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2010 22:50:05 John Lindsay wrote: Here is my 'fstab' # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3errors=remount-ro 0

Re: Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive

2010-09-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-19 10:26 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > When I try to copy more than 40MB onto an empty new 2GB usb pendrive, I get an > inexplicable `No space left on device' error message: > > > `11022008699.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008699.jpg' > `11022008700.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carol

Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive

2010-09-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all. When I try to copy more than 40MB onto an empty new 2GB usb pendrive, I get an inexplicable `No space left on device' error message: `11022008699.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008699.jpg' `11022008700.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008700.jpg' cp: cannot create regular fil

Re: [solved] Re: rsync issue

2010-09-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: >>> In rsync manual I coudn't find a solution to what I want. I wish to copy >>> all my home directory into another machine with the --delete option, but: >>> >>> 1) I dont't want hidden files, i.e.: `.*' to be copied; >>> >>> 2) on the other hand, there are some symlinks,

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 18 September 2010 22:50:05 John Lindsay wrote: > Here is my 'fstab' > > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > > # > > #             > > proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0 > > /dev/hda1       /               ext3    errors=remount-ro 0      

Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-19 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Customing d-i is so hard. Many things confused me on the documents. Cannot I just start with debootstrap? On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:31:21 -0400 (EDT), "Magicloud Magiclouds" wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >>