gcc versions (was Re: Nvidia cards)

2009-09-03 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-09-01 19:40, Paul Cartwright wrote: >> On Tue September 1 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: installed.. not 4.3.3 and 4.3.4 .. actually I have 4.3.2-1.1 >>> What branch are you running (stable?), and is 4.3.2-1.1 the most >>> up-to-date version of 4.3 in your branch? >> >>

Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny

2009-08-21 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> ite a player that circumvents CSS in order to play that DVD you >> purchased. BS IMHO. Anyway, I don't know the law stuff regarding >> libdvdcss2. I guess it is legal in some countries, and in some not... >> >> G. > From the libdvdcss-faq (http://www.videolan.org/support/f

Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny

2009-08-21 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Girish Kulkarni wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> That means if you want to play a legally bought DVD on your >> computer, you either have to run proprietary software (which >> contains a licensed descrambler) or you have to crack the CSS key >> using something like libdvdcss. >

Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny

2009-08-21 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Johannes wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> That means if you want to play a legally bought DVD on your computer, >> you either have to run proprietary software (which contains a licensed >> descrambler) or you have to crack the CSS key using something like >> libdvdcss. The latter may be illega

Re: bug in installer? (was Re: debian testing installer & encrypted LVM question)

2009-07-04 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Giorgos Pallas wrote: > Hi all! > > To me it looks like a bug, but I'd like to show it to the list before > filing it as a bug. > > My goal is to install debian testing using encrypted LVM, but not using > the entire disk: I want to keep a free partition for installin

bug in installer? (was Re: debian testing installer & encrypted LVM question)

2009-07-04 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Hi all! To me it looks like a bug, but I'd like to show it to the list before filing it as a bug. My goal is to install debian testing using encrypted LVM, but not using the entire disk: I want to keep a free partition for installing vista (for educational purposes...). So, the steps that creat

debian testing installer & encrypted LVM question

2009-07-03 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Hello to everybody! My laptop has a partition with Vista and the rest of the disk is free space. I boot the debian installer cd and the question is: can I somehow select the 'lvm + encrypt' scheme while preserving the vista partition? This 'use entire disk' which goes along the encrypted lvm trou

Re: shutdown problem : acpi_power_off freeze

2007-11-07 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:28:09PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > >> Hello to all, >> >> when I shutdown my computer it doesn't turn off but freeze with the >> message 'acpi_power_off called'. >> However the shutdown was working before I re-config my ALSA sounds (via

Re: how can I see version changes using aptitude?

2007-10-13 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 10/13/07, Giorgos Pallas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello to everybody! >> >> When I was using synaptic, I remember that it showed the version changes >> for every packet that was to be upgraded. >> >> Where exac

how can I see version changes using aptitude?

2007-10-13 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Hello to everybody! When I was using synaptic, I remember that it showed the version changes for every packet that was to be upgraded. Where exactly is this information hidden? How can I see it using aptitude, or maybe another command-line tool? I searched the internet but I can't seem to find so

Re: password protect file befor emailing

2007-10-12 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Juha Tuuna wrote: > On Friday, 12. October 2007 15:48, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > >> I want to send a longish pdf file to an unsophisticated Windows user. >> >> If possible I would like to password protect it. >> >> Is there a way to password protect files on Etch? >> >> Thanks, >> >> rd >>

Re: libdvdcss installation

2007-10-12 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Alan Ianson wrote: > On Fri October 12 2007 10:10, Pantor wrote: > >> Lads, >> >> would you be able, please, to advice how to install libdvdcss for >> VideoLAN. Linux knowledge almost zero. There is latest version >> libdvdcss-1.2.9.tar.gz on the Desktop. What to do now? >> > > An easier wa

Re: aptitude has other behaviour using command-line and UI

2007-10-08 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:29:08AM +0300, Giorgos Pallas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > >> But if I start the UI, it reports: >> >> #Broken: 89 Will free 344MB of disk space DL Size: 14.0 MB >> >> and >

aptitude has other behaviour using command-line and UI

2007-10-07 Thread Giorgos Pallas
...using command line, the system (debian lenny) seems fine: mordor:~/.aptitude# aptitude update Get:1 http://postmortem.csd.auth.gr testing Release.gpg [189B] Ign http://postmortem.csd.auth.gr testing/main Translation-en_US Ign http://postmortem.csd.auth.gr testing/contrib Translation-en_US Ign h

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-30 Thread Giorgos Pallas
helices wrote: > I have several rather complex debian systems, including software raid 5 > and lvm, &c. > > Occasionally, in the past, I have upgraded a debian system, after which > it no longer boots successfully. Unfortunately, for these complex > systems, neither the install/boot media, nor kno

Re: etch : system hangs

2007-09-03 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Mridul Manohar Mishra wrote: > Hi, >I am using following configuration as my hardware -: > PIII 700 MHz > 128 MB SDRAM > no graphics card > > It shows 5080 as free. > I am using debian 4.0 and it's my first time with debian based distro. > I am facing a weird problem. My system either hangs or

icedove, KDE and pdf attachments

2007-08-29 Thread Giorgos Pallas
One very annoying thing that happens with icedove (1.5.0.12) on Debian Lenny, is that when I get an email with a pdf attachment, I double click on the attachment and I get the well known window which says: You have chosen to open mplahmplah.pdf which is a: BIN file from imap:// What should

Re: gpg in KDE, passphrase window, passphrase timeout (SOLVED)

2007-08-28 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le Monday 27 August 2007 20:06:54 Giorgos Pallas, vous avez écrit : > >> I'm a little confused: I use gpg from the console and when asking for my >> passphrase >> , it raises a KDE window and prompts me to type it there. Why? I also &

gpg in KDE, passphrase window, passphrase timeout

2007-08-27 Thread Giorgos Pallas
I'm a little confused: I use gpg from the console and when asking for my passphrase , it raises a KDE window and prompts me to type it there. Why? I also would like gpg to cache the passphrase for a certain period of time so that I don't have to type it again and again. Any ideas? G. -- To UNSU

Re: cannot logoff/shutdown properly

2007-08-24 Thread Giorgos Pallas
And my 2 (problem) cents here... I have debian lenny on my laptop with KDE and since I installed it, there were two problems: It could not log off everytime (right click and log-out sometimes was ignored, even if I did it a hundred times), and second, acpi could not switch the laptop off: the last

Re: cron time is not same as system time

2007-08-22 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Chris Buckley wrote: >> Had to run dpkg-reconfigure tzdata. It had me in Central Europe. :-( > > What's bizarre is on our Debian 3.1 install, when i run apt-get > install --reinstall tzdata, it says package not found. > > A dpkg -l | grep tzdata returns nothing either. > > I'm very stumped on thi

Re: PC with vhosts and with 1 public IP

2007-07-19 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Stefan Weber wrote: > hi, > > i have a pc with a public ip-address on eth0. i like to build some virtual > hosts for proftp at this pc. I think that i need a public ip for every vhost. > but my subnet is not largely enough. have somebody an idea? > > > thanks > stefan > > > Why don't you use