Re: alternatives to skype

2013-02-09 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 10/02/13 00:34, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Philip Ashmore [130209 09:45]: WebRTC is fast becoming the standard for this. Even Skype is thinking about adopting this for phone to tablet to pc video chats without plug-ins - see http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/basics/ Because yo

Re: No aptitude download.

2013-02-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 04:58:48AM -0800, Weaver wrote: > > I now have the original number of packages reinstalled and only 35845 new > packages to look through to find out what I am missing. > > I think I'll just call it a night. What is the output from apt-get update, and apt-get upgrade, wrap

Re: alternatives to skype

2013-02-09 Thread Weaver
On Sat, February 9, 2013 7:16 pm, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 2/10/13, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> * Philip Ashmore [130209 09:45]: >>> WebRTC is fast becoming the standard for this. >>> Even Skype is thinking about adopting this for phone to tablet to pc >>> video chats without plug-ins - see >

Re: alternatives to skype

2013-02-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 2/10/13, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Philip Ashmore [130209 09:45]: >> WebRTC is fast becoming the standard for this. >> Even Skype is thinking about adopting this for phone to tablet to pc >> video chats without plug-ins - see >> http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/basics/ > > Beca

Re: how to launch these images?

2013-02-09 Thread Long Wind
I have burned the image to CD RedHat disappoints me Thanks anyway! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cab-gxzbsa3xwqvsodpnp62vtkknwu72aijfqmanhapmcb1z..

Sharing /home between multiple installs [was: Re: Sharing mail data]

2013-02-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 09 feb 13, 15:12:13, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Mount /home as an extra separate partition on all of the systems. > Then the path will be the same. A disadvantage of this can be if > different versions of the same tools fight each other such as having > different versions of GNOME on the differ

alternatives to skype

2013-02-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Philip Ashmore [130209 09:45]: > WebRTC is fast becoming the standard for this. > Even Skype is thinking about adopting this for phone to tablet to pc > video chats without plug-ins - see > http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/basics/ Because you appear to have a current and good pers

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
On 13-02-09 06:48 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: then ran thunderbird. Seems to work perfectly. Even with the bind parameter will a regular umount command work ? I'll look though mount manual. I guess I'll create a small script to do all the grunt work :) Yes. Just 'umount

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank McCormick wrote: > then ran thunderbird. Seems to work perfectly. Even with the > bind parameter will a regular umount command work ? I'll look though > mount manual. > I guess I'll create a small script to do all the grunt work :) Yes. Just 'umount /home/frank/.thunderbird' normally.

[SOLVED] Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
On 13-02-09 05:12 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Well I was hoping there would be a simple way to tell Thunderbird to read/write from mail data on another partition. Maybe that's not possible ? I don't use Thunderbird so I don't know but... Use a 'bind' mount to just moun

Re: how to launch these images?

2013-02-09 Thread Long Wind
menuentry 'RH-install' { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos4)' linux/home/zhou/rh/vmlinuz initrd /home/zhou/rh/initrd.img } I add sth. like above to grub.cfg After reboot and select the entry, it reboots On 2/9/13, Brian wrote:

Re: Re: Network traffic monitor

2013-02-09 Thread Havlinova Dita
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Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Something like: > mount -o bind /media/sda2/home/linux-fan/.thunderbird > /home/linux-fan/.thunderbird Oops! Obviously compliments to linux-fan's excellent post but I got ahead of myself trying to improve that. I should have said I was worried about the paths and said:

Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank McCormick wrote: > Well I was hoping there would be a simple way to tell Thunderbird > to read/write from mail data on another partition. Maybe that's not > possible ? I don't use Thunderbird so I don't know but... If Thunderbird looks at the canonical path instead of the logical path of

Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Linux-Fan
On 02/09/2013 10:54 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 09/02/13 01:38 PM, Frank wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/09/2013 06:23 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: >>> >>> I am running several Linux distributions on my machine - Debian >>> sid on one, Ubuntu on another and

Re: Firefox under Squeeze

2013-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Klaus Jantzen wrote: > > Or is 'Iceweasel esr' that is recommended for installation > > equivalent to Firefox 18? Oh, I just realized that you don't know about the ESR version and that I should have explained it too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox#Extende

Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
On 09/02/13 01:38 PM, Frank wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/09/2013 06:23 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running several Linux distributions on my machine - Debian sid on one, Ubuntu on another and two versions of Fedora on a 3rd and 4th partition. Is there a way t

Re: Firefox under Squeeze

2013-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Klaus Jantzen wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > http://mozilla.debian.net/ > > At the site you mentioned I only find references to 'Iceweasel'. > Or is 'Iceweasel esr' that is recommended for installation > equivalent to Firefox 18? Firefox is the trademarked name and logo of the Mozilla corporat

Re: Firefox under Squeeze

2013-02-09 Thread Klaus Jantzen
Bob Proulx wrote: Klaus Jantzen wrote: after having successfully solved the various library problems I get the following message when trying to install firefox 18 under Squeeze (Debian 6.0.6) How are you trying to install it? I downloaded the installation file 'firefox-18.0.tar.b

Re: Help with NIS+NFS in Squeeze

2013-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Markos wrote: > I just checked the configuration file /etc/fstab on the client machine > and the server IP address is correct. 192.168.0.1 > > When writing the message I copied and pasted the IP address of the site > that I used as a reference and I forgot to check. > > Sorry for the mistake. No

Re: [1/2OT] skype

2013-02-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 12:52:18PM +0800, lina wrote: > Hi, > > Is skype stable under the Debian? > > I have not installed, but I am kinda of needing it for a video call. > > Will it easily be crashed, I have never tried, so ask ahead. I have used it under Debian for two versions now with zero

Re: Help with NIS+NFS in Squeeze

2013-02-09 Thread Markos
Em Seg, 2013-02-04 às 10:18 -0900, Mark Neyhart escreveu: > Markos wrote: > > Dear Bob, > > > > Em Dom, 2013-02-03 Ã s 12:48 -0700, Bob Proulx escreveu: > >> Markos wrote: > > >>> But I can manually mount the /home partition on the clients with the > >>> command: > >>> > >>> mount 192.168.0.1:/ho

opening an Iceweasel link from Icedove

2013-02-09 Thread John Lindsay
This may have been answered previously but I couldn't find any info on it -- when I click on a link in Icedove, it will open Iceweasel to that link (provided of course it is a valid link). However when I try to go home (which is facebook) iceweasel seems to hang. Clicking a bookmark does nothin

Re: Firefox under Squeeze

2013-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Klaus Jantzen wrote: > after having successfully solved the various library problems I get > the following message > when trying to install firefox 18 under Squeeze (Debian 6.0.6) How are you trying to install it? > XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /root/firefox/libxpcom.so: > libxul.so: cannot open

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Bob Proulx a écrit : > > $ perl -le 'print 5605687296 / (1024*1024*1024)' > > Note that 1 GB (gigabyte) is 10^9 bytes as can be seen in the GNU dd > output. 1024^3 is 1 GiB (gibibyte). You say "tomato", I say "tomahto". You can make your own divider the number 34,969[1

Re: Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/09/2013 06:23 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > > I am running several Linux distributions on my machine - Debian > sid on one, Ubuntu on another and two versions of Fedora on a 3rd > and 4th partition. > > Is there a way to reliably share the mail

Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running several Linux distributions on my machine - Debian sid on one, Ubuntu on another and two versions of Fedora on a 3rd and 4th partition. Is there a way to reliably share the mail data in Thunderbird ? When I point the .thunderbird directory on another partition via a symlink

Sharing mail data

2013-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running several Linux distributions on my machine - Debian sid on one, Ubuntu on another and two versions of Fedora on a 3rd and 4th partition. Is there a way to reliably share the mail data in Thunderbird ? When I point the .thunderbird directory on another partition via a symlink

Firefox under Squeeze

2013-02-09 Thread Klaus Jantzen
Hello, after having successfully solved the various library problems I get the following message when trying to install firefox 18 under Squeeze (Debian 6.0.6) XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /root/firefox/libxpcom.so: libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't

Re: Download 3.1: Link is not responding

2013-02-09 Thread Zvi Vered
Hi, The reason I need 3.1 is that I have an embedded linux project started ~6 years ago. It was based on a 2.6.16 kernel taken from debian 3.1 I have to install 3.1 on a PC to recomile the kernel and a device driver. Thanks, Zvika On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb,

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Bob Proulx a écrit : > Kent West wrote: >> The GNU dd command, when sent the -USR1 signal, pauses processing long >> enough to spit out a status line, like so: >> >> 18335302+0 records in18335302+0 records out 9387674624 bytes (9.4 GB) >> copied, 34.6279 seconds, 271 MB/s >> ... >> 56056872

Re: Moving mdadm raid volume to new OS install

2013-02-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Sam Martin a écrit : > > You mean test whether i can bring the raid vol up by booting into 64bit > debian from usb? Yes. > i did a mdadm -e on one of the disks in the array > > root@HTPC-NAS:~# mdadm -E /dev/sdc1 > /dev/sdc1: > Magic : a92b4efc > Version : 1.2 > Feature M

Re: how to launch these images?

2013-02-09 Thread Brian
On Sat 09 Feb 2013 at 20:02:27 +0800, Long Wind wrote: > I have installed squeeze > Now I want to start Redhat 9 install with squeeze's grub > > http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/redhat/redhat-archive/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/images/boot.iso An image from 2003! Isn't this decade's

Re: No aptitude download.

2013-02-09 Thread Weaver
On Sat, February 9, 2013 4:53 am, Weaver wrote: > > On Sat, February 9, 2013 4:15 am, Weaver wrote: >> Greetings all. >> >> I can't seem to access the mirror and get a reading during the download >> of >> "Connection failed [IP: 202.158.214.106 80]" >> I only have 114 apps in `Installed' and the o

Re: No aptitude download.

2013-02-09 Thread Weaver
On Sat, February 9, 2013 4:15 am, Weaver wrote: > Greetings all. > > I can't seem to access the mirror and get a reading during the download of > "Connection failed [IP: 202.158.214.106 80]" > I only have 114 apps in `Installed' and the other 2000 odd have been > dumped in `Obsolete'. > > Is there

Re: how to launch these images?

2013-02-09 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 20:02:27 +0800 Long Wind wrote: > > I download the file above and mount it > I find vmlinuz and initrd.img and > I create menu entry for them in grub.cfg > but it does not work If you mount ISO, it only remains mounted while the OS is running (might get remounted on the next bo

No aptitude download.

2013-02-09 Thread Weaver
Greetings all. I can't seem to access the mirror and get a reading during the download of "Connection failed [IP: 202.158.214.106 80]" I only have 114 apps in `Installed' and the other 2000 odd have been dumped in `Obsolete'. Is there a change in the air I don't know about? Thanks for any inform

how to launch these images?

2013-02-09 Thread Long Wind
I have installed squeeze Now I want to start Redhat 9 install with squeeze's grub http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/redhat/redhat-archive/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/images/boot.iso I download the file above and mount it I find vmlinuz and initrd.img and I create menu entry for them in

Re: [1/2OT] skype

2013-02-09 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 09/02/13 09:07, Lars Noodén wrote: On 2/9/13 6:52 AM, lina wrote: [snip] Is skype stable under the Debian? [snip] If you install Skype, you should also install an SIP client like Ekiga or Blink just to try to encourage open standards for IP telephony. /Lars WebRTC is fast becoming the sta

Re: [1/2OT] skype

2013-02-09 Thread lina
I compromise. don't bother myself installing it just because I only need once. I will switch to other system. Thanks all for the suggestions, Best regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: [1/2OT] skype

2013-02-09 Thread Lars Noodén
On 2/9/13 6:52 AM, lina wrote: [snip] > Is skype stable under the Debian? [snip] If you install Skype, you should also install an SIP client like Ekiga or Blink just to try to encourage open standards for IP telephony. /Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: [1/2OT] skype

2013-02-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 09 feb 13, 09:24:31, Tom Bamford wrote: > > Works great for me in Wheezy/sid, much more stable than it used to > be (with earlier Skype versions). ...but unfortunately you have to download the latest version by hand, the skype repos contain an old version. Kind regards, Andrei -- http:/

Re: Download 3.1: Link is not responding

2013-02-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 09 feb 13, 09:34:45, Zvi Vered wrote: > Hello, > > I downloaded the files: > > debian-31r8-i386-binary-1.jigdo > debian-31r8-i386-binary-1.template > > from the link: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/3.1_r8/i386/jigdo-dvd/ > > Then I ran: > jigdo-lite (under windows) and then

Re: Download 3.1: Link is not responding

2013-02-09 Thread Zvi Vered
Hello, I downloaded the files: debian-31r8-i386-binary-1.jigdo debian-31r8-i386-binary-1.template from the link: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/3.1_r8/i386/jigdo-dvd/ Then I ran: jigdo-lite (under windows) and then the path of the jigdo file I just downloaded. I got the following me