On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 19:13, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> > $ mplayer proprietary.rm -oa pcm -oafile=open.wav
Slight bugfix, I think that last command should be '-oafile open.wav'
without the = sign.
> How do you do that for video files? My school does some courses over
> the web with streaming vi
> > mplayer can play realplayer files (I guess that audio too). I'm not sure
> > about converting them though...
Since mplayer can play realmedia (it may need you to install the binary
realplayer for some of the very new formats, but I'm unsure on this
point), it can also send the output to a fil
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 19:40, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote:
> It shouldn't be necessary to reinstall. Worst case - ackup your data and
> reformat the partition. I think it is even possible to upgrade a partition
> from ext2 to ext3, but I don't know in detail.
Yes, not only is it possible, b
Hi :)
I'm a longstanding Debian user (running sid at the moment) so have Evo
1.4.5, and am experiencing the problem listed in the subject, that
image/pjpeg attachments are not displayed inline, but am only given the
option to Save Attachment.
I've found quite a few references to this on the web,
So Who is broken, Whereis uninstalled and Which is on hold? ;)
Sorry :)
gdh
Hi :)
I've just acquired a HP C1533A tape drive, and whilst I can successfully
tar files back and forth from it, I'm poking in the dark..
I'm using 90m DDS-1 tapes, which give an uncompressed capacity of 2Gb with
this drive... but are there any tools to accurately measure both the data
rate and t
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Uuhhh yeh... we're running a special offer at the moment of 13.6 s
You might want to look at http://heroinewarrior.com/bcast2000.php3
:)
gdh
- Original Message -
From: Saqib Shaikh
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 8:54 PM
Subject: video editing under linux
hi
a friend of mine is wondering if there are any video editing sof
> WB> HI,
> WB> Ive been looking for an mp3 encoder in a deb package, anyone found one? I
> WB> have installed Grip and CDParanoia.
> No, there is no such.
There's certainly no package available from any of the Debian mirrors...
but add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://forcix.cx/ de
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Felix Oxley wrote:
> Can you suggest a tool which can do this?
Sure. Partition Magic.
The NTFS driver for Linux is very unstable, so it follows that there's
certainly nothing GPL'd which can rebuild the structure of an entire NTFS
system :)
If you could afford Win2000 in th
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Benj wrote:
> I run top, and see this process:
> 7705 0.0 % -discard [164.138.*.*]
>
> What is this process -discard ?? The IP (from which i've hidded the last two
> numbers) is totally unknown, its not my servers's or mine.
discard is a TCP service p
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Replying to myself, but...
>
> The server in question is an Alpha. Any attempt to connect to its workgroup
> (for which it is the master browser) causes the following to appear in
> /var/log/smb:
>
> [2001/04/18 10:48:55, 0] lib/util_sec.c:assert_gid(7
> 00,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/local/etc/logcheck.sh
The double-zero might be causeing it to choke.. the rest of the crontab
seems fine...
Regards,
Gavin.
> Hi. I responded to your message above about the 3c905c. You seem to
> be taking my word that you can't get the driver for this card.
That's daft :) We use nothing but 3c905c's at work
The module you need is '3c59x' and is part of the standard distribution -
yeh I know it's not terribly l
> Somehow mount the DOS partition and read files from there?
Yep :)
mkdir /mnt/msdos
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/msdos
> Format a disk so Linux will read it, and copy the files from DOS to there?
Yep :)
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy
vfat is the Windows9x long-filename support ... you can al
> I created a directory /opt/tmp and later wanted to delete it, but I
> accidentally typed "rm -r usr" instead (within the /opt directory).
>
> What is the best way to restore my system to health?
I suggest you read the recent archives of this list, as some poor guy did
much the same as you
T
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Heiko Ordelt wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> After i upgraded my debian box to woody i can't use the Home/End keys with
> Putty anymore ;(
>
> Anyone knows a solution for this problem?
Hello Heiko...
I had this problem, too and solved it by including the following line in
.bash_login
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote:
> -> echo -ne "Restarting apache web server: "
>
> "echo -n" is enough for this and works even in ash
OK, yes the -e is just for interpreting \n and friends...
> -> And anyway, why would you want to insist on 'ash' ?
>
> faster, smaller etc. it
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote:
> it seems apache could run with ash for example w/o problems
> - it just needs change all
>
> echo -ne "blahblah\n"
> to
> echo "blahblah"
>
> (wtf do we need the first?)
The first doesn't take a new line so it's possible to do this:
echo -ne "R
Was just poking through the manpage for mount, looking for something else,
and thought this little section might be useful ?
Note that the auto type may be useful for user-mounted
floppies. Creating /etc/filesystems can be useful to
change the probe order (e.g., to try vfa
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Robert Waldner wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:03:19 +0200, Joakim Nordlander writes:
> > The mailing list is currently using Majordomo, but I'm thinking of moving
> >to Smartlist.
>
> Try listar. Fast, flexible and with a _very_ helpful mailing list.
Listar also has a lovely
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> You need nautilus-mozilla, which you can't get because it depends on
> Mozilla .8 or later, which hasn't been packaged yet (even in unstable,
> it is still at M-18).
So at the moment the only way to get a fully functional nautilus in Debian
is to either
Just a pop question :)
I've installed potato as a bare-bones system, and upgraded to woody...
I take it, in theory, I should have been able to so
apt-get install nautilus
and it'd install that package, plus all necessary X server and library
files? Needless to say it didn't :) Anyway, that's no
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Allan M. Wind wrote:
> > then do apt-get update, and apt-get install flashplayer-nonfree
>
> Looks like they rename a dir and didn't include a readme, so the
> installer fails.
Gah :/ It's not a package I've used myself... I use that source because
the guy also packaged the
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Stan Brown wrote:
> What's the Debian way of installing a Flash Player plugin for Netscape?
Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/
then do apt-get update, and apt-get install flashplayer-nonfree
:)
Regards,
Gavin.
> > It's not terribly important, and I'd do a grep on your entire /var/named
> > (or wherever your zone files live) for CHAOS...
>
> hmm!
>
> grep CH /etc/bind/*
>
> nothing!
>
> maybe i've got a hosed slave/master relation specification...?
Your zone files live in /etc/bind? The debian default wa
> Besides, 'host' is shorter to type than 'nslookup'... =)
But not 'nsl' ;)))
gdh
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Nick wrote:
> what kernel do I need?
> Can I use 2.2.14 or 2.2.18
I have tried a few times and never had any joy with this...
So I had a hunt around and found 'vtun' instead, which does exactly the
same thing, is more flexible and is quite straightforward to configure :)
>F
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, will trillich wrote:
> i've gotten a strange DNS/NAMED/BIND error message:
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Mar 12 10:36:45 server named[2991]: No root nameservers for class CHAOS
>
> where do i look to determine whether or not this is important?
> and what to do abou
> It isn't really. Data CD's contain data headers that help the drive
> position itself in arbitrary locations - similar to sector headers on
> floppy and hard disks.
Well done that man!
You said what I was going to say - except I'd have rambled on aimlessly for
ages :)
gdh
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Romain Lerallut wrote:
> I have a problem when writing audio tracks from a CD to my HD.
> My PC slows down a *lot* when copying tracks from an audio
> CD, but not when I'm reading data (neither when I'm burning a CD).
Ripping audio data requires your machine to throttle the
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Rick Jansen - Tweakers.net wrote:
> Try to enable "Passive mode" on your Windows clients.
I don't know what version is currently active with debian, but ProFTPd
1.2.0rc2 had (amongst many others) a stupid bug where PASV mode didn't
work... so I'd suggest try toggling passive
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
> This might be the way to go, in case you do ... there is a free powerpoint
> presentation viewer available at the microsoft site. Maybe someone should
> try to get this to work with WINE.
Well, it was about 18 months ago but I managed to get Word to r
> >I have to do a presentation of extreme programming for my colleges.
> >
> >And I have found a powerpoint presentation on the net.
> >
> >Is there any powerpoint players for Linux.
Nope, any solution would be based around either running an entire Windows
installation in VMware, or using WINE..
> > Put deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ in your /etc/apt/source.list and then type
> > apt-get install lame
>
> Well, the source-line didn't work, but I grabbed the .deb in my browser.
It does work - did you remember to
a) Put a space between forcix.cx/ and debian/ ?
b) run apt-get update bef
> You need the four driver disks, boot.bin and rescue.bin
Typo! root.bin, not boot.bin :)
And boot from the rescue.bin floppy =)
gdh
> I need to reinstall Potato (my Woody system got
> screwed today and I can't figure out how to fix the
> numerous problems). My friend has my CD's, so I was
> going to just install off of the net, but I don't know
> where to get boot floppies, please help
Try
http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/di
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, mark's-debian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I setup a cronjob to fetch these mailinglists messeages from my
> mailserver. Everytime the job is run I get an email with the output
> from this job. How do I stop this. Because I'm afraid I'm loosing
> valuable diskspace
Put this at the end
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> Ok, new scenario. 3 debian unstable boxes. 3 2.4.2 kernels. 3 boxes
> all upgraded to latest dist-upgrade yesterday. 1 box will take ssh logins
> the other deny. I get the standard /etc/motd, then a line saying:
>
> setgid: Operation not permitt
Read
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=86908&repeatmerged=yes
and then do a dist-upgrade - the bug in libpam has been fixed, and SSH
works again :)
gdh
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm having this odd ball problem where ssh refuses to read the host
> keys and it is unable to setgid. I've no idea what is wrong. Does
> anyone have a clue about this?
I'm getting it too, and it's terribly annoying... but I worked around it
by insta
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Gregor Kaleta wrote:
> How can I view the size of a spezial directory e.g. /usr?
Try
du /usr
play with the options for the du command... du -sh is a good one for
simply getting the total space used in an easily readable format :)
gdh
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> No, it won't. When you run the dist-upgrade, apt will see that all packages
> on the system are already at least as new as those available (testing's
> version numbers are higher than stable's) and do nothing at all.
I thought that this was one of the
> So, short of starting over from scratch, is there a way to get back to
> "stable"?
Yep sure... edit /etc/apt/sources.list
and change anything that says 'testing' to 'stable'
then run apt-get update and finally apt-get dist-upgrade.
That should bring you back to stable :)
Of course, if youwan
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> Thanks for that :) 'reset' - feck, if I'd known it would be that simple...
>
> Right, will try that next time said thing happens! Thankyou!
It worked! Much appreciated!
gdh
Thanks for that :) 'reset' - feck, if I'd known it would be that simple...
Right, will try that next time said thing happens! Thankyou!
gdh
Hullo again.. sorry to bother you nice people, but this one has been
bugging me since I started using Linux a couple of years ago.. it's not
Debian specific, but I've had better, more educated responses from this
list than any other. Now, enough of the brown-nosing ;)
If I display a file which con
Just wanted to drop a note to say thanks to all the people who replied so
quickly to this little dilemma!
Fankoo! :)
gdh
On 27 Feb 2001, John Hasler wrote:
> > It was the generic 'xdm' that was the problem, but when I tried to remove
> > it, it wanted to take 'task-x-window-system' away, too..
>
> Let it. 'task-x-window-system' is an empty package which does nothing but
> depend on a bunch of X stuff so that the X
> 3. Remove gdm completely by doing something like "apt-get remove gdm" as
> root.
Hi :) It was the generic 'xdm' that was the problem, but when I tried to
remove it, it wanted to take 'task-x-window-system' away, too.. so I
decided to just remove the startup lines in /etc/rc.* :)
Thanks!
gdh
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Glenn Becker wrote:
> I don't really know what the purpose of xdm is. There are packages to
> 'prettify' it, but I just object to the whole thing. :-)
Urk! Yes.. 'This version of Linux is better because it's version 7 instead
of 2.2 and it has a nicer looking login prompt'
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Glenn Becker wrote:
> It sounds like you have xdm running. I don't much like it either - it is
> difficult to get to pure console with that thing in the way.
You're quite right I do indeed have xdm running, and had already noticed
the problem vanished when xdm did, but I assu
I have a MOST bizarre and interesting problem at the moment!
After my 'unstable' machine boots.. about 2 minutes later, X will start
up, with an xconsole in the corner showing 'dmesg' output, and a simple
graphical login prompt in the centre of the screen forces a login before
anything else can be
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Thomas Guettler wrote:
> Do you really need this link? Why don't you don't you filter your
> mails to different mboxes in your $HOME with procmail? (With a
> .procmailrc)
Probably not, but it's handy for running the odd bit of legacy software
that needs this old 'standard'...
Hullo!
I'm writing here 'because I never had this problem with Slackware' :)
Okie, in /var/spool/mail, I have a symlink from 'gdh' to my real mailbox
in /home/gdh/Mailbox, and this link in this preset dir lets crappy stuff
like pine and UW's imapd work correctly...
However, I've moved to Debian
> > I can't speak for 'pump' but if you're using dhcpcd, try 'dhcpcd -R' -
> > that'll prevent it from updating your resolv.conf :)
>
> How to pass that flag when dhcpcd is called from /etc/network/interfaces?
Ooh :/ That's a good question... Don't know, sorry.. the dhcpcd man page
doesn't seem t
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Lex McPhail wrote:
> Using DHCP - will try using a static IP and see what happens. Thanks for the
> info.
I can't speak for 'pump' but if you're using dhcpcd, try 'dhcpcd -R' -
that'll prevent it from updating your resolv.conf :)
gdh
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> True enough - but recognize that Samba's advantage is that it runs on
> the stable OS, so you don't have to load anything at all on the windows
> side!
I'm not a fan of NFS... but it can be useful in situations where file
permissions are important... an
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
> Can this be done?
> Can I mount NFS volumes from a win machine or am I stuck to using Samba?
Short answer: Yes.
Longer Answer: At a price.
There's a shareware package called DiskAccess, and commercial offerings
from Hummingbird and Omni-NFS..
T
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Walther, Christoph wrote:
> Dear Debian-Community,
>
> how do I setup Linux Debian 2.2r2, so that I can connect to it remotely
> using Hummingbird Exceed 6.0, running on a Win95-Box?
This one is easy enough... let's say your Win95 box has an IP of
10.0.0.95, just type
expor
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, David B. Harris wrote:
> That'd be more complex; you'd probably have to write a web front-end ...
> and you'd also have to install some sort of webserver :( At 340M, you're
> already going to be limited to how many voice messages you can store
> with only the base Debian confi
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, ^chewie wrote:
> > I did an apt-get update today on my alpha 'unstable' system and nearly
> > required new trousers this morning when I almost pressed 'Y' to this
> > little lot...
Just out of curiousity, I did an apt-get update this morning, then apt-get
install perl and tha
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, ^chewie wrote:
> > I did an apt-get update today on my alpha 'unstable' system and nearly
> > required new trousers this morning when I almost pressed 'Y' to this
> > little lot...
[Perl 5.6 reorg, revert to stable/testing]
OK, the easy route sounds like a good plan :) Alter
Hello :)
I did an apt-get update today on my alpha 'unstable' system and nearly
required new trousers this morning when I almost pressed 'Y' to this
little lot...
macha:/home/gdh/# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The
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