How to disable USB automounts

When I stick a USB device into the socket it is automounted; KDE pops up device notification widget, file manager window, etc. I tried to disable it: KDE -> System Settings -> Removable Devices, and unchecked "Enable automatic mounting of removable devices". This didn't have any effect. In fa

Re: USB-Printer prints RAW PCL6-Code

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> I tried to print from a WinXP running inside a VirtualBox on one of my >> machines by forwarding the USB-device to the virtual machine. works >> perfectly ... > > Hum... it's weird that a problem with the USB stack allows windows to > print fr

Re: virt terminal font problem

> Whit Hansell writes: […] > I had a problem when I purchased a new monitor, an LCD, and it > required me to put "vga=785" at the end of the Kernel line in > menu.list file in order to get any video out of the Virtual Terminal > (F1-6). Now that I have reinstalled w. Wheezy, I have the

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sep 4, 2011 9:10 PM, "Scott Ferguson" wrote: > > On 05/09/11 03:46, shawn wilson wrote: >> >> >> Discs do fail and I look forward to someone posting the fail rate of >> different manufacturer discs. However the above statement doesn't seem >> to be based on logic. >> > > Detailed data on failu

debian squeeze - default sound card

Hello, I'm using debian squeeze, i've two sound cards. 0 snd_hda_intel 1 snd_usb_audio How to change the default sound card? -- Frederic Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

darkestkhan wrote: > Stephen Allen wrote: > > Unfortuantely the suggested fix didn't work. Just recently a new sudo entered Wheezy Testing and it changed the behavior of secure_path. See Bug#639841 for details. But it means that you need to add this line too: Defaults secure_path="/usr/local

Re: multitouch

So far I've noticed that the modules were installed on /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib; I've corrected that and also added this to the xorg.conf: Section "Modules" Load "mtrack" EndSection Now Xorg actually loads the module: [ 2061.816] (II) LoadModule: "mtrack" [ 2061.816] (II) Loading /

Re: BIND and timeout

On 2011-09-04 20:58:08 -0400, Tom H wrote: > You can use "supercede domain-name-servers ..." in "dhclient.conf" to > set 127.0.0.1 and any other DNS server (like Google DNS or OpenDNS) to > be written to "resolv.conf". Thanks. I don't like OpenDNS, which returns 67.215.77.132 when the host doesn't

virt terminal font problem

Maybe someone can help me here. I've googled all over and cannot find an answer to my problem. I had been running Lenny before Squeeze went stable, then installed Wheezy testing because I wanted to get back to running testing again instead of stable. I've been running Debian Linux since 2002

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On 05/09/11 03:46, shawn wilson wrote: On Sep 4, 2011 1:28 PM, "Doug" mailto:dmcgarr...@optonline.net>> wrote: > > On 09/04/2011 03:41 AM, shawn wilson wrote: >> >> >> On Sep 4, 2011 3:23 AM, "Miles Bader" mailto:mi...@gnu.org>> wrote: >> > >> > lina mailto:lina.lastn...@gmail.com>> write

Re: BIND and timeout

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Due to network congestion, I often get timeouts with BIND, > /etc/resolv.conf containing only "nameserver 127.0.0.1". > In /var/log/syslog, I can see errors like: > >  xvii named[1661]: error (network unreachable) resolving ... > > and the

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Nicolas Bercher wrote: > On 03/09/2011 23:03, shawn wilson wrote: > >> So, I can understand your frustration but, 4 discs out of how many >> thousands they make >> every day? That's not that conclusive. That said, iirc the reviews about a >> year ago did >> say tha

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sep 4, 2011 7:44 PM, wrote: > >> >> 2. There is not a strong dependency between drive temperature and failures. >> That's interesting. I wonder how they distribute the heat to prevent temperature differences from causing failure. That's spectacular really. So until I cook the circuit board (

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

- Original Message - From: Brad Rogers To: Debian Users ML Sent: 9/4/2011 6:26:48 PM Subject: Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases) On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:27:51 -0400 Doug wrote: Hello Doug, > It's been a few years s

BIND and timeout

Due to network congestion, I often get timeouts with BIND, /etc/resolv.conf containing only "nameserver 127.0.0.1". In /var/log/syslog, I can see errors like: xvii named[1661]: error (network unreachable) resolving ... and the "host" command returns: ;; connection timed out; no servers could b

intel 3D

On my laptop I have squeeze installed, with 3d/hardware acceleration, but it seems not to help much. I'm wondering if there could be something mis-configured or is this just the best my hardware can do. It is a dell Inspiron 1420N (came pre-installed with ubuntu 2-3 years ago). $lspci | grep

Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Lisi wrote: > The CRT monitor I got rid of because I couldn't even pick it up, had as many > adjustments as my present TFT ones. :-/ i had 2 of those... 22 inchers. regular brightness / contrast, input selection, color presets, sharpness and monitor menu settings.

Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition

On Sunday 04 September 2011 18:15:00 jeremy jozwik wrote: > LCD = no adjustments. The CRT monitor I got rid of because I couldn't even pick it up, had as many adjustments as my present TFT ones. :-/ > thanks a lot for help on this very annoying issue. i do appreciate it. Sadly it wasn't much h

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sat, 03 Sep 2011, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > now, you may be thinking "surely, that was just unlucky with two > drives, right?" wrong - the total number of drives used for this RAID1 > mirror was *four* drives [cf: earlier very helpful discussion > involving a script which someone pub

Re: Ugly appearence after upgrade

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:19:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:32:57 -0300, Chir0n wrote: > >> after an "aptitude dist-upgrade" to testing (and to unstable too) some >> GTK2 applications look ugly, like GTK1 appplications. > > Yep, here also, at least in my VM that runs wheezy (scr

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On 03/09/2011 23:03, shawn wilson wrote: So, I can understand your frustration but, 4 discs out of how many thousands they make every day? That's not that conclusive. That said, iirc the reviews about a year ago did say that this was a very consumer drive. I don't remember hearing them break b

Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:15 AM, jeremy jozwik wrote: > thanks a lot for help on this very annoying issue. i do appreciate it. kids, always update your bios. all problems solved for the moment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: multitouch

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:26:27 -0300, David Roguin wrote: > > > I've succesfully installed Debian (wheezy) on a Macbook pro 8,1 and now > > the hard part is to make the hardware to work nicely ;) Currently, the > > touchpad works as a mouse with onl

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:27:51 -0400 Doug wrote: Hello Doug, > It's been a few years since I retired, but I remember the IT guys > replacing a _lot_ of Western Digital drives. I guess the In the same vein, I remember lots of Seagate drives being replaced. For a while the company had a nickname

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

Here is the whole thing, (and something that will not sit well with some), the OP posted based on experiance. Absolutly nothing wrong with that. In fact, people tend to make purchase decisions based on that life experiance. It does not matter if person 1 loves item A if person 2 used item 1 and

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Doug wrote: > ** > On 09/04/2011 03:41 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > > > On Sep 4, 2011 3:23 AM, "Miles Bader" wrote: > > > > lina writes: > > > just guess ... might be wrong, might lots of people coming for WD, > > > so the stores only sold WD. > > > > Dunno, but I

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sep 4, 2011 1:28 PM, "Doug" wrote: > > On 09/04/2011 03:41 AM, shawn wilson wrote: >> >> >> On Sep 4, 2011 3:23 AM, "Miles Bader" wrote: >> > >> > lina writes: >> > > just guess ... might be wrong, might lots of people coming for WD, >> > > so the stores only sold WD. >> > >> > Dunno, but I'

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

Putting a directory like /tmp (with the same permissions on the USB drive) would allow any user to create files and directories there. If this user sets permissions for own files to allow others to read and write, any other user is able to overwrite the contents of this files. Any user can mount th

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sep 4, 2011 7:53 AM, "D G Teed" wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 4:41 AM, shawn wilson wrote: >> >> >> On Sep 4, 2011 3:23 AM, "Miles Bader" wrote: >> > >> > lina writes: >> > > just guess ... might be wrong, might lots of people coming for WD, >> > > so the stores only sold WD. >> > >> >

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On 09/04/2011 03:41 AM, shawn wilson wrote: On Sep 4, 2011 3:23 AM, "Miles Bader" > wrote: > > lina mailto:lina.lastn...@gmail.com>> writes: > > just guess ... might be wrong, might lots of people coming for WD, > > so the stores only sold WD. > > Dunno, but I've had ext

Re: Ugly appearence after upgrade

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:32:57 -0300, Chir0n wrote: > after an "aptitude dist-upgrade" to testing (and to unstable too) some > GTK2 applications look ugly, like GTK1 appplications. Yep, here also, at least in my VM that runs wheezy (scrolls and menus are like GTK1 old-style). > Gnome-terminal and

Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > My current suspect list for your problems: > Bad CD > Incompatible version (64 bit) for your video card. > Bad CD drive. things get interesting now. while talking to a buddy about this issue he wanted me to humor him by trying a unbuntu insta

Re: Ugly appearence after upgrade

On 2011-09-04 18:32 +0200, Chir0n wrote: > Hi all, > > after an "aptitude dist-upgrade" to testing (and to unstable too) some GTK2 > applications look ugly, like GTK1 appplications. > > Gnome-terminal and Epiphany are two of them. They are not, because they are not GTK2 applications anymore. Thi

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011/9/4 Stephen Allen : > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:04:20AM +, darkestkhan wrote: >> 2011/9/3 Stephen Allen : >> > On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 11:32:00AM +, darkestkhan wrote: > >> >> /etc/sudoers contains informations about who has rights to access root >> >> level privileges (though I know

Ugly appearence after upgrade

Hi all, after an "aptitude dist-upgrade" to testing (and to unstable too) some GTK2 applications look ugly, like GTK1 appplications. Gnome-terminal and Epiphany are two of them. I tried install testing and after a "aptitude upgrade" the problem returned. Does anyone know how to solve this? Thn

Re: multitouch

On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:26:27 -0300, David Roguin wrote: > I've succesfully installed Debian (wheezy) on a Macbook pro 8,1 and now > the hard part is to make the hardware to work nicely ;) Currently, the > touchpad works as a mouse with only one button and I'm trying to fix > that following the wik

Re: Setting up Icedove with mayor providers (was: MTU and Postfix)

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:34:09 +0800, lina wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Before setting up your Gmail account to use it with your e-mail client >>> you should first "clean up" your inbox/folders because you can h

Re: sources.list directory specification

On Sunday 04 September 2011 09:06:39 Scott Ferguson wrote: > Just checked, Squeeze doesn't seem to auto-pin Interesting. I must obviously ensure that I keep a copy of my Lenny preferences file! I have not yet installed any backports on Squeeze. I only install backports if and when I have a go

Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition

On Saturday 03 September 2011 04:01:56 jeremy jozwik wrote: > todays issue is a flashing underscore after the grub bootloaded > bootloads the debian image. I wonder whether your image is for some reason misregistering on the monitor and moving too far to the left? You *should* get a flashing und

Re: Setting up Icedove with mayor providers (was: MTU and Postfix)

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:34:09 +0800, lina wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> Before setting up your Gmail account to use it with your e-mail client >> you should first "clean up" your inbox/folders because you can have > > inbox/folders ? Yes. If you have all of your me

Re: Setting up Icedove with mayor providers (was: MTU and Postfix)

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 21:28:21 +0800, lina wrote: > the icedove is smart, the gmail is autoconfigured. >> >> A bit unexpected, by browser, my gmail for debian mailing list I only >> kept recent 1610 emails (around). >> but the icedove was busy d

Re: Setting up Icedove with mayor providers (was: MTU and Postfix)

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 21:28:21 +0800, lina wrote: >>> the icedove is smart, the gmail is autoconfigured. > > A bit unexpected, by browser, my gmail for debian mailing list I only > kept recent 1610 emails (around). > but the icedove was busy downloading, reached 6 thousands and more. > > Frankly s

Re: MTU and Postfix

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:14:45 -0300, D G Teed wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> I've been busy on these days trying to solve a problem with Postfix >> that drove me nuts. >> >> Sporadically (let's say one in hundred e-mails) my Postfix had problems >> for delivering m

Re: MTU and Postfix

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:06:02 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > 04.09.2011 12:40, Camaleón: > >>> I'm still monitoring this but if this is the "cure" to prevent such >>> errors, are there any expected drawbacks for lowering MTU >>> "system-wide"? >> >> (...) >> >> Mmm, no replies yet... >> >> D

Re: [alsa-devel] No sound on Asus EeePC 1215b (hda-intel)

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 11:18:39AM +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > On 09/01/2011 12:08 AM, Touko Korpela wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:42:02PM +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > >>Touko Korpela wrote: > No sound is heard (but mixer is not muted). > Shouldn't mixer have more channels t

Re: MTU and Postfix

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:56:51 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > HI, > > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 10:40:29AM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:09:23 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> > I'm still monitoring this but if this is the "cure" to prevent such >> > errors, are there any exp

Re: Setting up Icedove with mayor providers (was: MTU and Postfix)

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:42:30 +0800, lina wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > May I ask one thing here, >>> >>> Well, not here, maybe in a new thread, don't you think? Hijacking >>> other's postings is not n

Re: Setting up Icedove with mayor providers (was: MTU and Postfix)

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:42:30 +0800, lina wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> May I ask one thing here, >> >> Well, not here, maybe in a new thread, don't you think? Hijacking >> other's postings is not nice ;-) > "Hijacking" is a big word for me to afford, sorry

Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition

On Saturday 03 September 2011 4:53:02 pm jeremy jozwik wrote: > > 1. Did you do a media check (sha1sum or whatever) on the install CD? > > nope. though during my troubleshooting of debian 6.0.2 i used my > "known to be working" debian 5.0.2 install disk and received the same > results. black scree

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sat, 03 Sep 2011, Mike Castle wrote: > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: > > just a word of warning: on absolutely no account, not for any reason, > > should you buy WD "Green" drives. > > > > i've just spent a hair-raising 6 weeks discovering that these driv

Re: Holiday Project for my job

On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 10:35:12AM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: > I am trying to set up several Linux desktops for a secure (locked) > facility for troubled teenagers. I brought one home to set up (so I can > have unfettered internet access) but then I need to be able to 'clone' > it to others without in

Re: Setting up Icedove with mayor providers (was: MTU and Postfix)

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:33:41 +0800, lina wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:09:23 +, Camaleón wrote: >>> >>> (...) >>> I'm still monitoring this but if this is the "cure" to prevent such

Re: MTU and Postfix

HI, On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 10:40:29AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:09:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > > I'm still monitoring this but if this is the "cure" to prevent such > > errors, are there any expected drawbacks for lowering MTU "system-wide"? > > (...) > > Mmm

Re: MTU and Postfix

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > I've been busy on these days trying to solve a problem with Postfix that > drove me nuts. > > Sporadically (let's say one in hundred e-mails) my Postfix had problems > for delivering messages with ~3 MiB of attachment to some e-mail ho

Re: MTU and Postfix

04.09.2011 12:40, Camaleón: >> I'm still monitoring this but if this is the "cure" to prevent such >> errors, are there any expected drawbacks for lowering MTU "system-wide"? > > (...) > > Mmm, no replies yet... > > Does it mean then that there are no gotchas to care about in setting a > MTU v

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:04:20AM +, darkestkhan wrote: > 2011/9/3 Stephen Allen : > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 11:32:00AM +, darkestkhan wrote: > >> /etc/sudoers contains informations about who has rights to access root > >> level privileges (though I know it can do much more, like giving

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:03:38AM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 19:48:33 -0400 > Stephen Allen wrote: > > Cool. Thanks for the help. > > > > Strange why that line isn't there aye? > > > > > > Sudo in sid has just been updated to a version with a different > sudoers file format. Those

Setting up Icedove with mayor providers (was: MTU and Postfix)

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:33:41 +0800, lina wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:09:23 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> I'm still monitoring this but if this is the "cure" to prevent such >>> errors, are there any expected drawbacks for lowering

Re: MTU and Postfix

On Sunday 04 September 2011 5:03:41 pm lina wrote: > Sorry, I do not understand well most what you said even I read three times. > May I ask one thing here, > Last time I tried the icedove but don't know how to set the SMTP for > hotmail one. > Is the icedove a good choice (for me) to grab emails f

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 4:41 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Sep 4, 2011 3:23 AM, "Miles Bader" wrote: > > > > lina writes: > > > just guess ... might be wrong, might lots of people coming for WD, > > > so the stores only sold WD. > > > > Dunno, but I've had extremely good experiences with WD dr

Re: MTU and Postfix

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:09:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >> I'm still monitoring this but if this is the "cure" to prevent such >> errors, are there any expected drawbacks for lowering MTU "system-wide"? > > (...) > > Mmm, no replies yet...

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 04/09/11 20:03, lina wrote: >> >> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:41 PM, shawn wilson  wrote: >>> >>> On Sep 4, 2011 3:23 AM, "Miles Bader"  wrote: lina  writes: > > just guess ... �might be wrong, might lots of people coming fo

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On 04/09/11 20:03, lina wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:41 PM, shawn wilson wrote: On Sep 4, 2011 3:23 AM, "Miles Bader" wrote: lina writes: just guess ... �might be wrong, might lots of people coming for WD, so the stores only sold WD. Dunno, but I've had extremely good experiences wit

Re: MTU and Postfix

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:09:23 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) > I'm still monitoring this but if this is the "cure" to prevent such > errors, are there any expected drawbacks for lowering MTU "system-wide"? (...) Mmm, no replies yet... Does it mean then that there are no gotchas to care about in s

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sunday 04 September 2011 3:33:15 pm lina wrote: > what does OP mean? IF you meant the abbreviation, OP stands for Original Poster. The person who started the whole thread in question. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Is it possible to use broken display laptop for print server?

On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 07:32:03 -0700, keitho wrote: (...) > Hmm. Is it possible to boot a minimal Linux OS from a cdrom on this > broken display Dell (with 256M ram) that would enable me to use it as a > print server? I would use a wired Ethernet connection to the hub in the > basement. (...) Yes

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:41 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Sep 4, 2011 3:23 AM, "Miles Bader" wrote: >> >> lina writes: >> > just guess ...  might be wrong, might lots of people coming for WD, >> > so the stores only sold WD. >> >> Dunno, but I've had extremely good experiences with WD drives in

Re: Dig +bind9 debian squeeze

On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:03:56 -0430, john vera wrote: > F1 F1 F1 F1 F1: es simple, pero no puedo. (...) John, this is the English mailing list, should you want to ask something here it should be done in English :-) There is also a Spanish mailing list you can try: http://lists.debian.org/debia

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:48:33 -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: >> just a word of warning: on absolutely no account, not for any reason, >> should you buy WD "Green" drives. >> >> i've just spent a hair-raising 6 weeks discovering tha

fvwm problem

One fvwm feature doesn't work properly for me. I put a post in the fvwm forum, but the only replies were from the program maintener, and it works for him. I would like to know if it is the case for Debian fvwm users, if any. The problem is with the "Style" command: if I modify the config file, an

Re: Is it possible to use broken display laptop for print server?

On Sat 03 Sep 2011 at 17:50:28 -0700, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > shawn said: > "If you're looking for something to do, go for it. If you want a print > server that just works, go on eBay and get an old jetdirect server (or go > off brand - belkin comes to mind) for <$20." This is your low-en

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:23:06 +0900 Miles Bader wrote: > lina writes: > > just guess ... might be wrong, might lots of people coming for WD, > > so the stores only sold WD. > > Dunno, but I've had extremely good experiences with WD drives in the > past, so I'd definitely favor them when I buy a

Re: sources.list directory specification

On 04/09/11 17:11, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 03 September 2011 10:35:53 Scott Ferguson wrote: On 03/09/11 08:27, Lisi wrote: So - you are just doing as I suggested. Being selective (except you were doing it long before I suggested it, and I was only echoing the documentation) "Hidden" in my or

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

2011/9/3 Stephen Allen : > On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 11:32:00AM +, darkestkhan wrote: >> 2011/9/3 Stephen Allen : > >> > It contains just 2 fields; >> > >> >        # User privilege specification >> >        root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL >> > >> >        # Allow members of group sudo to execute any c

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 19:48:33 -0400 Stephen Allen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 11:32:00AM +, darkestkhan wrote: > > 2011/9/3 Stephen Allen : > > > > It contains just 2 fields; > > > > > >        # User privilege specification > > >        root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL > > > > > >        # Allo

Re: Is it possible to use broken display laptop for print server?

On 04/09/11 07:11, Brian wrote: On Sat 03 Sep 2011 at 07:32:03 -0700, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: Hmm. I'm thinking- would I first need to boot with an attached external monitor to configure the Bios to use the external monitor? (chicken or egg?) To configure the bios you have to have a dis

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sep 4, 2011 3:23 AM, "Miles Bader" wrote: > > lina writes: > > just guess ... might be wrong, might lots of people coming for WD, > > so the stores only sold WD. > > Dunno, but I've had extremely good experiences with WD drives in the > past, so I'd definitely favor them when I buy a new one.

Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

lina writes: > just guess ... might be wrong, might lots of people coming for WD, > so the stores only sold WD. Dunno, but I've had extremely good experiences with WD drives in the past, so I'd definitely favor them when I buy a new one... -Miles -- Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think

Re: sources.list directory specification

On Saturday 03 September 2011 10:35:53 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 03/09/11 08:27, Lisi wrote: > So - you are just doing as I suggested. Being selective (except you were > doing it long before I suggested it, and I was only echoing the > documentation) > > "Hidden" in my original post was this:- >