Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> yudi v writes: > Hi Paul, > I am pretty sure you are mistaken, > 126-32 = 94 Let's try a simpler range: 32 to 32 is 1 character. And 32 - 32 is, obviously, zero. Doesn't it seem like an off-by-one error? > and space is a printable character. Well, I don't h

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-24 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:48, yudi v wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I am pretty sure you are mistaken, > > 126-32 = 94 > and space is a printable character. > saying space is printable is like saying cr and/or lf or bs or tab etc are printable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-24 Thread yudi v
Hi Paul, I am pretty sure you are mistaken, 126-32 = 94 and space is a printable character. Yudi

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110725_132804, yudi v wrote: > Hi all, > > The 94 printable characters from the first 128 characters of the ASCII table > are the the ones with Hex Codes 0x20 to 0x7E. Is this right? No, it is not right. 0x20 to 0x7E is 95 characters, not 94. 0x20 is the space, and is non-printing. The rang

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 15:28 +0200, lee wrote: > Andrew McGlashan writes: > What is more efficient when people have to spend the extra time to > figure out how to up- and download and how to solve security issues > involved with transferring the files via http or ftp? Are you going to > explain

Re: rsync backup question

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Paul E Condon writes: > On 20110722_142620, lee wrote: […] >> There isn't much point in using rsync since you're neither copying >> to a > ^^ > If the copy job fails 3/4 way thru, one can pick up the pieces and > continue using rsync. So even if it is a one time

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-24 Thread yudi v
Aaron, I know the ascii table. I just wanted to confirm the printable characters are from 0x20 to 0x7E. This is an important consideration while choosing a passphrase when using LUKS. On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:28:04PM +1000, yudi v wrote: >

What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-24 Thread yudi v
Hi all, The 94 printable characters from the first 128 characters of the ASCII table are the the ones with Hex Codes 0x20 to 0x7E. Is this right? -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-24 Thread Burhan Hanoglu
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > I am running squeeze w/ gnome desktop. I am attempting to use > google-chrome as my browser, but I also use Mutt as my MUA. > Under some situations, maybe always, but it is confusing, > when I am presented with an email containing HTML, I am

Re: fstab for usb devices in Squeeze

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Mark Grieveson writes: > Hello. Back in the good old days when I used Lenny, I was able to > mount my usb stick, mount my digital camera, and sync my palm pilot, > at the same time. After upgrading to Squeeze, this now seems like an > impossible dream. […] … Is pmount [1] an

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Erwan David writes: > On 24/07/11 22:23, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] >> Huh? Base64 has overhead of only 33.(3)%? > Add another 3,33% for CRLF each 80 encoded characters (2 caharacters > each 60 bytes) Indeed. -- FSF associate member #7257 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: ssh: no route to host

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> François TOURDE writes: > Le 15179ième jour après Epoch, Camaleón écrivait: > On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:22:57 +0200, François TOURDE wrote: >>> No route to host means: "I or some other router on the road can't find >>> the hardware associated with the IP given, or the way to reach it

debian sensible browser help

2011-07-24 Thread Paul E Condon
I am running squeeze w/ gnome desktop. I am attempting to use google-chrome as my browser, but I also use Mutt as my MUA. Under some situations, maybe always, but it is confusing, when I am presented with an email containing HTML, I am but into Iceweasel rather than google-chrome. I had thought the

Re: fstab for usb devices in Squeeze

2011-07-24 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 24 July 2011 03:51:37 pm Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. Back in the good old days when I used Lenny, I was able to > mount my usb stick, mount my digital camera, and sync my palm pilot, > at the same time. After upgrading to Squeeze, this now seems like an > impossible dream. > > My f

Re: Wine questions

2011-07-24 Thread Brad Alexander
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Scott Ferguson < prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25/07/11 05:20, Brad Alexander wrote: > > > > > Anyone got any pointers or suggestions on getting wine working well in > > Debian? > > > > Thanks, > > --b > > > > # apt-get install playonlinux > > http:

fstab for usb devices in Squeeze

2011-07-24 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. Back in the good old days when I used Lenny, I was able to mount my usb stick, mount my digital camera, and sync my palm pilot, at the same time. After upgrading to Squeeze, this now seems like an impossible dream. My fstab file used to look like this: # /etc/fstab: static file system in

Re: Wine questions

2011-07-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/07/11 05:20, Brad Alexander wrote: > Anyone got any pointers or suggestions on getting wine working well in > Debian? > > Thanks, > --b > # apt-get install playonlinux http://www.playonlinux.com/en/ 3 out of 5 Stars - Starcraft 4 out of 5 Stars - StarCraft - Brood War (Digital Distrib

Re: rsync backup question

2011-07-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110722_142620, lee wrote: > "Thomas H. George" writes: > > > I partitioned a 1 TG usbdrive as ext3, mounted it as /usbmem > > [...] > > > > My object had been to backup everything before moving from Squeeze to > > Wheezy > > > > Any Suggestions? > > There isn't much point in using rsync sin

sound problem with lenny

2011-07-24 Thread Long Wind
most times the sound card works but sometime it doesn't, and then I reboot, it always works I really can't reproduce the problem for sure below is output of "cat /dev/sndstat" when it doesn't work: Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.16 emulation code) Kernel: Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sa

Re: ssh: no route to host

2011-07-24 Thread François TOURDE
Le 15179ième jour après Epoch, Camaleón écrivait: > On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:22:57 +0200, François TOURDE wrote: [...] >> >> No route to host means: "I or some other router on the road can't find >> the hardware associated with the IP given, or the way to reach it". > > (...) > > "No route to host"

Re: udisks and devices [was cannot mount floppy]

2011-07-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:49:06 -0400 (EDT), Tomas Kral wrote: > > Just finding my way around with udisks. > Read man pages, but I could not find any docs in /usr/share/doc/udisks > > tcat@lynx:~$ udisks --inhibit-polling /dev/fd0 > Inhibit polling failed: Media detection cannot be inhibited > > Fl

iptables & libvirt

2011-07-24 Thread Kurt Flex
Hi, i've configured a few virtual machines with libvirt-bin. The VMs live behind a virtual network. $ sudo virsh net-dumpxml default default 0c2cb263-e12b-8bf5-54af-1da612561cc0 libvirt maintains some iptable rule

Re: problem with ISA SB 16

2011-07-24 Thread Long Wind
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > >        Well, I guess that the card was somehow left undetected by >        snd-sb16. > >        I wonder, why isapnp was disabled?  Could it be enabled, or >        could the card's configuration be specified explicitly via the >        modu

Re: Backup Software

2011-07-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110722_181654, Siard wrote: > Michael Checca: > > Camaleón: > > > Ethan Rosenberg: > > > > What software would you recommend to backup a Debian system on a > > > > stand-alone computer? > > > > > > tar + compression > > > > +1 for simplicity :) > > Nowadays' harddisks have plenty of space, s

Re: disable fbcon in Debian Wheezy (Live)?

2011-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:23:47 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> Camaleón writes: On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:23:54 >> +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > […] > > >> Otherwise, fbcon works pretty much correctly for the case in > >> question. As per lsmod, the driver is i915. > > > Intel KMS requi

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread Erwan David
On 24/07/11 22:23, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> Andrew McGlashan writes: >> Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > >> Huh? Base64 has overhead of only 33.(3)%? Add another 3,33% for CRLF each 80 encoded characters (2 caharacters each 60 bytes) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Andrew McGlashan writes: > Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> Huh? Base64 has overhead of only 33.(3)%? > Won't that vary by file? I guess it won't. Base64 sends each 6-bit of data as an ASCII character, which is (usually) represented by an octet. This gives exactly 4

Re: Do I own an unsupported optical IDE drive?

2011-07-24 Thread Tomas Kral
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 20:47 +0200, Horace Dynamite wrote: > On 22 July 2011 18:27, Camaleón wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:54:00 +0100, Horace Dynamite wrote: > > > >> On 22 July 2011 16:43, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Uff, have you tried with another IDE cable? Those seem hardware errors. > >> > >

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Ivan Shmakov wrote: Huh? Base64 has overhead of only 33.(3)%? Won't that vary by file? It's never going to be the same for every file. It's still alot of extra overhead, not just the extra data. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To

Wine questions

2011-07-24 Thread Brad Alexander
I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this, but I am trying to get wine working on my system. I installed the latest wine-unstable (1.3.24) debs as well as winetricks, and have failed at not only games that are listed as gold on db.winehq.org (e.g. BattleZone and Dangerous Waters), but als

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Camaleón wrote: That's the only way I can send files (programs, manuals, FAQs...) to a chap that lives in Cuba and has only access to his e-mail account. No Internet for browsing, no Internet for downloading big files from a provided link. No FTP service for upload or download nothing. They're

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, lee wrote: That you don't want the problem to exist doesn't help. Look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=+635184 and tell me if you know a better solution. 100M logfiles via email is way too unreasonable. Good luck to you, hope you get videos of hundreds of MB and you h

udisks and devices [was cannot mount floppy]

2011-07-24 Thread Tomas Kral
On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 14:36 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:58:27 -0400 (EDT), Tomas Kral wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 15:40 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> ... > >> Issue "man udisks" for more information. > > > > Yes, this one did the trick... > > > > tcat@lynx:~$ ud

Re: problem with ISA SB 16

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Long Wind writes: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> I guess, the output of either cat(1) or less(1) should be more >> informative. […] > below is output by "cat /dev/sndstat": > Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.16 emulation code) > Kernel: Linux debi

Re: disable fbcon in Debian Wheezy (Live)?

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:23:54 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] >> Otherwise, fbcon works pretty much correctly for the case in >> question. As per lsmod, the driver is i915. > Intel KMS requires fbcon, unless this has changed recently... and for > Intel cards KMS

Re: manually adding root certificates

2011-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:35:10 +0200, Arno Schuring wrote: > does anyone here have experience with adding CA certificates to Debian? > My ISP is using "USERTrust Legacy Secure Server CA" as its issuer and > that CA does not appear to be included in ca-certificates. (...) > Now, according to /usr/s

how do patches get to Debian kernel package?

2011-07-24 Thread Mark Copper
Hi Debian users, Upgrading from old stable (Lenny) to stable (Squeeze) broke X on my machine. The problem centers around the video chip on the Asus M2A-VM motherboard, and, perhaps the attached Samsung monitor attached. I am not certain, but I believe this discussion at lkml.org pertains: htt

Re: Icedove 5.0 - when?

2011-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:18:44 +0200, Dejan Ribič wrote: > Dne 24.7.2011 17:43, piše Camaleón: >> On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:33:54 +0200, Dejan Ribič wrote: >> >>> I am sorry if this is the wrong list to ask this(if it is could >>> you >>> point me to right one?). But I was wondering if or rat

Re: Icedove 5.0 - when?

2011-07-24 Thread Dejan Ribič
Dne 24.7.2011 17:43, piše Camaleón: On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:33:54 +0200, Dejan Ribič wrote: I am sorry if this is the wrong list to ask this(if it is could you point me to right one?). But I was wondering if or rather when will Debian Mozilla Team release a "debranded" version of Thunderbir

Re: OT: Software that will populate a database from csv data?

2011-07-24 Thread Arno Schuring
George (pinkisntw...@gmail.com on 2011-07-23 19:35 +0300): > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Liam O'Toole > wrote: > > In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: > >> I'm looking for software that will accept as input a csv file and > >> a database schema and will populate the database with the data

RE: manually adding root certificates

2011-07-24 Thread Arno Schuring
[mental note: crtl+enter in claws is a shortcut for "send message". Do not use] Hi, does anyone here have experience with adding CA certificates to Debian? My ISP is using "USERTrust Legacy Secure Server CA" as its issuer and that CA does not appear to be included in ca-certificates. I have n

Seamonkey 2.2 illegal instruction after upgrading to it

2011-07-24 Thread Johnny
I an run Debian squeeze and i do use Iceape as Default if i have a problem with other browser I have Seamonkey 2.2 install in my home dir it was working before i upgraded. I run it from the command line i get illegal instruction. I did download it and ran it from the commmand line i get the s

Re: Icedove 5.0 - when?

2011-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:33:54 +0200, Dejan Ribič wrote: > I am sorry if this is the wrong list to ask this(if it is could you > point me to right one?). But I was wondering if or rather when will > Debian Mozilla Team release a "debranded" version of Thunderbird = > Icedove? Or was Icedove disc

manually adding root certificates

2011-07-24 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi, does anyone here have experience with adding CA certificates to Debian? My ISP is using "USERTrust Legacy Secure Server CA" as its issuer and that CA does not appear to be included in ca-certificates. I have not been able to find the corresponding certifcate via UTN's (now Comodo's) website,

Icedove 5.0 - when?

2011-07-24 Thread Dejan Ribič
Hi, I am sorry if this is the wrong list to ask this(if it is could you point me to right one?). But I was wondering if or rather when will Debian Mozilla Team release a "debranded" version of Thunderbird = Icedove? Or was Icedove discontinued? Cheers, Dejan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: disable fbcon in Debian Wheezy (Live)?

2011-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:23:54 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> Camaleón writes: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 06:28:49 >> +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > >> How do I disable fbcon in Debian Wheezy? I'm using a custom Debian > >> Live image, and it switches to fbcon as soon as it can get to the > >

Re: pppoeconf can't find new Verizon DSL modem

2011-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:53:46 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 04:28:25PM +0530, Mahesh T Pai wrote: >> Camaleón writes: >> >> >> > Maybe you only need to set the new modem with the same parameters >> > (local IP address -or dhcp- settings, username/pass, etc...) of the

Re: GPU hang "EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop"

2011-07-24 Thread José Silva
On 23/07/11 20:49, lee wrote: Well, you could check the sources of the driver to see if you can find out what's going on or try to run the X server in the debugger to get more information. Or you wait until the bug is fixed or someone who knows more has an idea --- or you can use the NVIDIA card

Re: IDT High Definition Audio Codec soundcard

2011-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:56:27 +0200, Andreas Berglund wrote: > On 2011-07-23 13:55, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Have you tried with the usual things (alsamixer/gnome applet volume >> control) to configure the Intel card? Ensure you are using the Intel >> card because you also have a secondary one, c

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:23:51 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > lee wrote: >> what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to >> a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- >> metamail doesn't seem to exist anymore. > > This problem _should_ _not_ exist.

Re: ssh: no route to host

2011-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:22:57 +0200, François TOURDE wrote: > Le 15177ième jour après Epoch, > Camaleón écrivait: > >> "No route to host" usually means "I cannot see the machine at all" and >> "I cannot see the machine at all" usually involves: >> >> a) SSH service is not running on the client b)

Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard

2011-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:59:13 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> It looks like you are getting into hibernation instead of performing a >>> full power off but anyway, AFAIK restoring from hibernation can be >>> only done from power button, not from

Re: Backup Software

2011-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:37:34 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:08:48 +0200, lee wrote: >> >>> Camaleón writes: >>> Encryption at software level adds an extra layer of incompatiblity I prefer to avoid for backups. >>> >>> What is incompatible about crea

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:44:34 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:18:35 +0200, lee wrote: >> >>> Camaleón writes: >>> >>> Yeah, that's what I thought of doing if there isn't a better option. >>> How do you handle the mime stuff in your script so that the recipient >

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread lee
Andrew McGlashan writes: > Hi, > > lee wrote: >> Andrew McGlashan writes: >> What's the point of having good internet connections when you can't use >> them? Making your files publicly available by uploading them somewhere >> or by setting up your own web server may not be what you want. > > Wh

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread lee
Andrew McGlashan writes: > Hi, > > lee wrote: >> what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to >> a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail >> doesn't seem to exist anymore. > > This problem _should_ _not_ exist. How horrible to need to pi

Re: problem with ISA SB 16

2011-07-24 Thread Long Wind
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > >        I guess, the output of either cat(1) or less(1) should be more >        informative. > > […] > > -- Thank Ivan! I reply a little late because I can't access gmail account easily because of firewall of Chinese government (Next time

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Andrew McGlashan writes: […] > The other thing that many people don't seem to understand, is that > sending a large binary file as an attachment requires the attachment > to be encoded back to printable characters -- this can increase the > payload of an email by 50%. Huh? Ba

Re: IDT High Definition Audio Codec soundcard

2011-07-24 Thread Andreas Berglund
On 2011-07-23 13:55, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:10:58 +0200, Andreas Berglund wrote: On 2011-07-22 17:35, Camaleón wrote: IDT is a very generic Sigma chipset. You will have to dig a bit into your system to find out more information about the codec it uses. For instance, give us t

Re: 6rd vs. interfaces(5)

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Rick Thomas writes: > On Jul 22, 2011, at 5:17 AM, Dejan Ribič wrote: > Dne 22.7.2011 11:09, piše Ivan Shmakov: […] >>> Unfortunately, 6rd is only available for Linux 2.6.33 and later >>> (as per Wikipedia), which isn't in Squeeze. […] >> you can install 2.6.38 from squeeze-ba

Re: 6rd vs. interfaces(5)

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Johan Kullstam writes: > Ivan Shmakov writes: […] >> Unfortunately, 6rd is only available for Linux 2.6.33 and later (as >> per Wikipedia), which isn't in Squeeze. > It is actually pretty easy to compile and use your own kernel. > Perhaps surprisingly, the kernel interface is pre

Re: disable fbcon in Debian Wheezy (Live)?

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Camaleón writes: > On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 06:28:49 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> How do I disable fbcon in Debian Wheezy? I'm using a custom Debian >> Live image, and it switches to fbcon as soon as it can get to the >> modules! > (...) > What VGA chipset? > I would wonder why t

Re: problem with ISA SB 16

2011-07-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Long Wind writes: >> What's in /dev/sndstat? > Use the ls command? It shows it's linked to a file in /proc I guess, the output of either cat(1) or less(1) should be more informative. […] -- FSF associate member #7257 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

why /etc/nethack/nethackrc.console didn't install

2011-07-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
I still don't know, but did find something out that was useful. The nethack-console.sh script looks for that file as well as a user's .nethackrc file. So I made me a short .nethackrc file and eliminated that warning when the game starts up. Probably the nethack configuration package which ho