Re: Error; Skreener stop installing

2011-08-28 Thread Morning Star
Thank you very much, Scott. You've helped me a lot. :) I forgot to send this messages to debian-user list, so I apologized for that. By default, reply button only works to sender only. My regard, Marco On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Scott Ferguson < prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: Error; Skreener stop installing

2011-08-28 Thread Morning Star
Thanks Hugo, I got it fix earlier from Scott. Sorry I didn't post it to debian-user before. Reply button only replies message to the sender, not the debian-user mailing list. In the next message, I'm going to forward the earlier messages. Marco On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wr

Re: USB Headphones Sound problem

2011-08-28 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:00:26 -0700 "Bill.M" wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have sound working on my laptop - both the speakers and the RCA jack > output to powered speakers. Great. But my USB headphones don't work. > USB is enabled in the bios and there are a lot of USB and audio modules > installed

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-28 Thread D G Teed
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote: > > > On 27 August 2011 11:41, D G Teed wrote: > >> >> I started another reply, and it had lots of steps to try to repair >> this situation, but then I rethought. >> >> If this is a fresh install, and you have no data to keep on the Debian >>

Re: A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

2011-08-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/08/11 08:49, green wrote: Brad Alexander wrote at 2011-08-26 16:49 -0500: card slot on his brand new win7 laptop...and grabbed her card and Windows partially formatted (corrupted) it. Since that 8GB card was broken, she upgraded to a 16GB card Can Windows really *break* a card (rather

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Email on the FreedomBox Discussion

2011-08-28 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 24 August 2011 16:19, John Walsh wrote: > ** > Hi Everybody, > Hello John, > The FreedomBox (FBX) IRC Chat on the 2011-08-15 15:00UTC raised the > possibility that the FBX will not have email. This is the discussion that > bdale requested. > > I am a user who wants my email on my FBX rat

Re: A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

2011-08-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/08/11 07:00, green wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-08-28 10:19 -0500: On 29/08/11 00:03, green wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-08-27 08:50 -0500: I don't imagine upgrading will make much difference - the controller distributes the writes evenly, for which reason I reserve 25% of

Re: xorg configuration

2011-08-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/08/11 04:54, Andreas Berglund wrote: I have xorg on autodetect, but it frequently gets things wrong about the resolution the monitor provides. When it gets things right is there any way to extract the configuration of the running instane of xorg into a configuration file? /Andreas On S

Re: Most Perplexing

2011-08-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Brennan wrote: > RiverWind wrote: > > Well folks, in order to run the conversion suggested by Bob, I did > > the following. > > > > I first saved the script he outlined and called it cb.sh. I then > > tried to make the file executable with "chmod +x cb.sh". I then ran > > the file with "./cb

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-28 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 27 August 2011 11:41, D G Teed wrote: > > I started another reply, and it had lots of steps to try to repair > this situation, but then I rethought. > > If this is a fresh install, and you have no data to keep on the Debian > system, > here is a bulletproof solution: > > Reinstall. > This is

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-28 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 27 August 2011 06:10, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 08/26/2011 04:08 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote: > > > > All ISPs in Australia employ PPPoE. > > PPPoA is available, in many instances also. > > And elsewhere too, but your modem appears to be a router. In this case, > it handles PPPoE by itself,

Re: Most Perplexing

2011-08-28 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/28/2011 6:43 PM, RiverWind wrote: > > Hey There, > > Well folks, in order to run the conversion suggested by Bob, I did > the following. > > I first saved the script he outlined and called it cb.sh. I then > tried to make the file executable with "chmod +x cb.sh". I then ran > the file with

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-28 Thread shawn wilson
I don't understand what is hard about this. I mean if you don't care about security, just make sure the mount has a umask of 770 (or whatever) and make an export, reload exports, and mount it from wherever you want. What am I missing? Also, if you want to call osx Unix, call it broken unix. Most

Re: A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

2011-08-28 Thread green
Brad Alexander wrote at 2011-08-26 16:49 -0500: > card slot on his brand new win7 laptop...and grabbed her card and Windows > partially formatted (corrupted) it. > Since that 8GB card was broken, she upgraded to a 16GB card Can Windows really *break* a card (rather than just the filesystem on it)

Most Perplexing

2011-08-28 Thread RiverWind
Hey There, Well folks, in order to run the conversion suggested by Bob, I did the following. I first saved the script he outlined and called it cb.sh. I then tried to make the file executable with "chmod +x cb.sh". I then ran the file with "./cb.sh". I got the following response. Quote On [wor

Re: A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

2011-08-28 Thread green
Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-08-28 10:19 -0500: > On 29/08/11 00:03, green wrote: > > Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-08-27 08:50 -0500: > > > I don't imagine upgrading will make much difference - the controller > > > distributes the writes evenly, for which reason I reserve 25% of > > > space when in

Re: xorg configuration

2011-08-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > Forwarded Message > > From: Andreas Berglund > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: xorg configuration > > Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:54:58 +0200 > > > > I have xorg on autodetect, but it frequently gets things wrong about the > > resolution the monitor provides.

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-28 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:01:05 -0400 "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > > I understand OSX doesn't help anyone here... perhaps someone could > request an implementation of this command in the mount source code? > It seems simple - just check if the filesystem has noowners set and if > so, instead of

xorg configuration

2011-08-28 Thread Andreas Berglund
I have xorg on autodetect, but it frequently gets things wrong about the resolution the monitor provides. When it gets things right is there any way to extract the configuration of the running instane of xorg into a configuration file? /Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Java Error or so...

2011-08-28 Thread Kostas Psilopoulos
in debian squeeze 2.6.32-5 with xen i try to set up a working eucalyptus cloud I get a problem like this. Is anyone aware of that kind of problem? how do i solve it, or anything usefull at all? I'm kind of stuck in this... Thank you all! javax.crypto.BadPaddingException: pad block corrupted

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

2011-08-28 Thread Brad Alexander
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:16 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > i don't know how to say this without sounding like a smart ass, so i'm > going to sound like a smart ass: > why does it matter? > I recently started doing system logbooks for my system to chronicle events in the life of my systems. Since I

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-28 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:41:35 +0200 Christoph Groth wrote: > "Robert Blair Mason Jr." writes: > > > Christoph Groth wrote: > > > > Will something like the following work? This works on any filesystem > > using standard unix permissions (such as ext*, ufs, reiserfs*, > > btrfs, etc.) > > > > Sup

Re: Error; Skreener stop installing

2011-08-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Morning Star wrote: Hi guys, I'm having trouble installing skreener. Here are what I do and the output result: user@desktop: ~/Downloads/skreener/skreener-0.1.1$ mkdir b && cd b && cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release && make -j3 Output in the screen: -- The C compiler identification is GNU --

Re: A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

2011-08-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/08/11 00:03, green wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-08-27 08:50 -0500: I don't imagine upgrading will make much difference - the controller distributes the writes evenly, for which reason I reserve 25% of space when installing (instead of the default 10%). NOTE: I could be wrong about t

Re: Text file encryption using GPG

2011-08-28 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:40:06 +0200 Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > Hi all! > > I have used Gringotts, which lets me view and edit encrypted general text > files > quite securely without writing unencrypted data to disk. > > However, I would like to use my GPG key instead of using Gringott

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

2011-08-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/08/11 23:44, yudi v wrote: /var/log/installer/hardware-summary look at the first line That's looks right, cannot find a date older than that. Jun 11 also look at the modify time for /etc/issue Modified time is newer.� - Aug 1 That (issue) could have been updated after t

Re: A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

2011-08-28 Thread green
Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-08-27 08:50 -0500: > I don't imagine upgrading will make much difference - the controller > distributes the writes evenly, for which reason I reserve 25% of > space when installing (instead of the default 10%). NOTE: I could be > wrong about that - I'm just guessing. H

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

2011-08-28 Thread yudi v
> /var/log/installer/hardware-summary > look at the first line > That's looks right, cannot find a date older than that. Jun 11 > > also look at the modify time for /etc/issue > Modified time is newer. - Aug 1 -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-28 Thread yudi v
> > # apt-get --purge remove libnfsidmap2 nfs-common samba > > if you don't use samba at all (cifs-utils samba samba-common > samba-common-bin smbfs) then change "samba" to "samba*" > > I'd suggest using -s instead of --purge first - just in case samba was > originally pulled in by another package

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-28 Thread yudi v
http://myip.dk/ will give you the remote access address. Just ssh to the displayed address. I'd suggest you try - it's easier than just believing everything you read on whirlpool. The signal to noise ratio there can be bad. Exetel have good tech support - Vodaphail don't even know where their tower

How does apt select and priotize translations?

2011-08-28 Thread Dirk Weinhardt
Hello list, I am about to install a particular package from wheezy on a squeeze system. Packages from wheezy should be pinned to a priority of 50. While configuring and testing apt I found that apt searches for German translations although the system's locale is en_US.utf8 and pinning priorit

Text file encryption using GPG

2011-08-28 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi all! I have used Gringotts, which lets me view and edit encrypted general text files quite securely without writing unencrypted data to disk. However, I would like to use my GPG key instead of using Gringotts+passphrase. Anybody know of a program that lets me view and edit encrypted text f

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/08/11 18:37, yudi v wrote: my system IP for ppp0 is 101.***.***.*** and it's not static. but from what I can remember all postpaid accounts in Australia have 10.***.***.*** addresses and are behind NAT. I've yet to see any (non-SLA business class) USB UMTS modems by any of the

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-28 Thread yudi v
> I use postpaid mobile broadband and my IP is both the system address and >> the gateway. There is no NAT with postpaid service, it's only available >> with prepaid in Australia. Not sure why. >> > > Not sure what you mean there I suspect you mean only postpaid allow a > static IP address (for

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 00:36 +1000, yudi v wrote: > Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? uptime is a good indicator. The "uprecords" package provides recordkeeping and does all the math for you. An example of uprecords output is at http://ursamundi.org/cgi-bin/uprecords.cgi s

Re: Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

2011-08-28 Thread lina
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 28 August 2011 05:28:40 lina wrote: >> > If you want, I can grab her external after >> > Hurricane Irene is done leaving her mark on NYC and get you dmesg logs >> > from Squeeze and my laptop, running testing. >> >> have a nice weekend, > >

Re: Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

2011-08-28 Thread lina
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 28 August 2011 05:28:40 lina wrote: >> > If you want, I can grab her external after >> > Hurricane Irene is done leaving her mark on NYC and get you dmesg logs >> > from Squeeze and my laptop, running testing. >> >> have a nice weekend, > >

Re: Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

2011-08-28 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/28/2011 3:05 AM, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 28 August 2011 05:28:40 lina wrote: >>> If you want, I can grab her external after >>> Hurricane Irene is done leaving her mark on NYC and get you dmesg logs >>> from Squeeze and my laptop, running testing. >> >> have a nice weekend, > > Erm... How do

Re: Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

2011-08-28 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 28 August 2011 05:28:40 lina wrote: > > If you want, I can grab her external after > > Hurricane Irene is done leaving her mark on NYC and get you dmesg logs > > from Squeeze and my laptop, running testing. > > have a nice weekend, Erm... How does anyone have a nice weekend watching her