Re: ASCII file to ISO-8859-* to UTF-8

2006-11-13 Thread ochnap2
On Sunday 12 November 2006 10:52, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > Hi. I have a lots ascii file with ecoding iso-8859-* and I must > convert those in UTF-8. How? > convmv > -- > Openclose.it - Idee per il software libero > http://www.openclose.it __ Correo

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread George Borisov
Alan Ianson wrote: > > I find etch (and even sid) very usable at the moment. OOo 2.0.4 seems to be > working well reading/saving to/from different formats. I've been using Sid on my desktops for years and have had relatively few problems. Admittedly it does break sometimes, but not that often (1

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread anonymous
Samuel Bächler wrote: > > A. > > > First of all you should not call yourself anonymous, tell us your real name. > > > I would like to know whether all these CDs have binary files or are > > these also include CDs with > > sources and documentation. If so, which ones of them? > > As far as I know t

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 13 November 2006 18:34, anonymous wrote: > I was planning to download and test install Debian for the first time. > However, when I browsed the website below: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r3/i386/iso-cd/ > > for a download, I found out that I would need to download 18 CDs:

Re: Mount digital camera

2006-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gerard Robin wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:16:41PM +0100, Samuel Bächler wrote: From: Samuel Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Mount digital camera X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on murphy.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: N

Re: cs4232 soundcard

2006-11-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 10:16 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 12.11.06 16:00, David Baron wrote: > > I believe that there is NO ALSA support for this card. There is a recent > > OSS driver but we use ALSA. > > I've got cs4236 in my home computer, and it is supported by OSS cs4232 > driver,

Re: Mount digital camera

2006-11-13 Thread Roby
Samuel Bächler wrote: > I am running a debian sarge using the 2.6.8-2-386 kernel. > I have got a Sony DSC-W30. Its Device ID is 054cx0010. > > Here some information that may be useful: > > When I connect my camera to the computer using USB the > system says: > > Nov 13 12:30:39 localhost kernel

Re: apt-show-versions works not so well with Testing

2006-11-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 14:26 -0500, T wrote: > On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:33:16 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > "$ reportbug apt-show-versions" is your friend. :) > > My ISP will TLS email authentication is my barrier to get it through. :-) I guess you've never configured a local MTA to work with you

Re: Cupsys, using gimpprint driver instead of gutenprint

2006-11-13 Thread Matthew Krauss
T wrote: Hi, The new cupsys in Etch does not work for me, while the old cupsys in Sarge works perfectly. After switching to Etch, I've had 3 attempts trying to make it works, but failed 3 times. (My latest attempt and problem logged at: http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?s3095+gcups.bugs+v3104+

Re: cs4232 soundcard

2006-11-13 Thread David Baron
On Monday 13 November 2006 17:31, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 10:16 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On 12.11.06 16:00, David Baron wrote: > > > I believe that there is NO ALSA support for this card. There is a > > > recent OSS driver but we use ALSA. > > > > I've got cs4236

Printing Problems with Gnome

2006-11-13 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I am running Debian Etch and using the gnome desktop. I also have cups installed as well as some KDE apps. When I go to the CUPS printer administration page I can print test pages to all my networked printers. I can also print to the printers from Firefox and Kontact. However, I cannot p

Help: NO longer boots ;

2006-11-13 Thread helices
I have a dual Opteron box (Odin) that went down while I was gone, due to an extended power failure. When it comes up, it fails to complete boot. Please, help me get this system running again. uname -a Linux (none) 2.6.17-2-amd64 #1 SMP ... Bootup sequence from obvious problems: ... Success: lo

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:23:11PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > > I don't know, but this has been discussed quite a lotta times in various > fora. > Users often get stunned by the number of CDs and get confused what to > download and what not to. Perhaps http://www.debian.org/distrib/ should ex

cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-13 Thread Rob Bochan
I'm interested in the cron-apt package. Is anyone aware if there's any way for it to send a message to an external mail (i.e. to a gmail account, etc.) without having an MTA installed on the machine? Perhaps some settings like the reportbug package does? I'm interesting in using it to keep machi

multimedia CD?

2006-11-13 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I've installed Debian Etch on an old laptop using CDs -- it does not have high speed internet access. I then, on a separate computer, downloaded Christian Marillat's multimedia files, maintaining the directory structure, and then burned these to CD. I attempted to add this to my sour

configuring gmail's SMTP server in kmail

2006-11-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi Did any succeed in configuring gmail SMTP server with kmail? I am using Etch/testing kmail 1.9.5 I did Settings -> Configure Kmail -> Accounts -> Sending and used the following settings. Host : smtp.gmail.com Port : 465 However I am confused about the "security" tab where it asks encryption

cannot remove mysql-server-5.0

2006-11-13 Thread Tom Brown
Hi, I installed some mysql 5 packages on my development server. I had to do a --force-all to get them to install. I've tried three different ways to remove the package but all fail (shown below). Any ideas on how to remove the package? Thanks, Tom $ sudo apt-get remove mysql-server-5.0 Readin

Re: C++ exception handling question [solved]

2006-11-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 12:22:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 08:31:42PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 09:55:52AM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Thanks for stack profiling info. I

Compiz - Screen blanks out after switching terminal console

2006-11-13 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi, I'm using Compiz v0.2.2 and everything works fine - the window decorations et al. However when i move to a different terminal console - say vt0...when i return back to my X on vt7, sometimes i lose all window decorations and at other times I get a blank screen. The keyboard locks out and I

Re: configuring gmail's SMTP server in kmail

2006-11-13 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi, I have gmail running on kmailhave been using it for quite sometime. Just checked my config and I have encryption set to SSL and Authentication method as Plain. The rest of your config seems alright. Hope it works out for you :) Bye for now On Monday 13 November 2006 22:57, Kamaraju

Re: Mount digital camera

2006-11-13 Thread Samuel Bächler
Thanks for your inputs, :). One can copy all the pictures on a camera using 'gphoto2' with 'gphoto2 -P' over PTP. But as far as I know gphoto can not copy any movies. I am running a debian sarge using the 2.6.8-2-386 kernel. I have got a Sony DSC-W30. Its Device ID is 054cx0010. Here some infor

Re: configuring gmail's SMTP server in kmail

2006-11-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 13 November 2006 12:46, Jeetu Golani wrote: > Hi, > > I have gmail running on kmailhave been using it for quite sometime. > Just checked my config and I have encryption set to SSL and Authentication > method as Plain. The rest of your config seems alright. > > Hope it works out for yo

Re: Romanian

2006-11-13 Thread user local
2006/11/13, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: In the gnome-terminal menu, choose "Terminal: Set Character Encoding:Current Locale (UTF-8)". Doesn't work. However, thank you

Re: configuring gmail's SMTP server in kmail

2006-11-13 Thread Tim
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Any other ideas as to what I should choose in the Security tab? > Use SSL and Authentication Method: Clear Text works for me. -- Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: configuring gmail's SMTP server in kmail

2006-11-13 Thread Tim
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Any other ideas as to what I should choose in the Security tab? > Sorry, I was looking at one of my incoming accounts for my previous response. Here I am using: Encryption: SSL Authentication Method: PLAIN -- Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: apt-proxy

2006-11-13 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Monday 13 November 2006 04:00, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > I changed the port, now when I enter > apt-proxy --config-file=/etc/apt-proxy/apt-proxy-v2.conf > I get this output and it stops there: That looks right...does it still not respond on the configured port? j > > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-pac

Re: cannot remove mysql-server-5.0

2006-11-13 Thread Tom Brown
On Monday 13 November 2006 09:40, Tom Brown wrote: > I installed some mysql 5 packages on my development server. I had to do a > --force-all to get them to install. I've tried three different ways to > remove the package but all fail (shown below). Any ideas on how to remove > the package? Hmmm...

Re: Mount digital camera

2006-11-13 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/13/2006 07:20 AM, Samuel Bächler wrote: > Hi everyone > > I am running a debian sarge using the 2.6.8-2-386 kernel. > I have got a Sony DSC-W30. Its Device ID is 054cx0010. > > Here some information that may be useful: > > When I connect my camera to the computer using USB the > system say

Firefox -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)

2006-11-13 Thread Gnu_Raiz
Dear: Fellow Debian users;I have ran across several problems with Firefox, and Iceweasel, or any browser based on Mozilla code. I have run an strace on Firefox and am having problems getting good performance out of my system. This happens to be an old laptop, with a AMD Duron 800. It seems to work

Redirect http request ONCE without authentication

2006-11-13 Thread Craig Russell
I've found quite a few relatively complex solutions but I'm looking for something a little simpler. I need a method of redirecting HTTP traffic from a specific subnet to a splash page but, only ONCE. Once the user is redirected, at least initially, they will be given a splash page with an OK

firefox / Xorg memory usage / swap

2006-11-13 Thread David A.
Hi, sometimes when I have many tabs open in firefox (10-15 or so) the system begins to swap and become virtually unresponsive. If I'm quick I can kill firefox. Below is a snapshot from top while swapping. As you can see Xorg is the heavy Mem-consumer. My questions; 1) why does Xorg consume much

Re: C++ exception handling question [solved]

2006-11-13 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:41:52AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I'm not a professional programmer, so my standards of reasonableness > are not tempered by 'real world' experience. I use C++ to write > simulation code for my research in biodiversity. It seems to me, from > reading the doc.s, tha

Re: Skype via VNC

2006-11-13 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Sunday 12 November 2006 11:39, Peter Easthope wrote: > Joshua & others, > > I'm back at home and can reply to the list with help > of a thunderbird. > > jk> What error messages do you get if you open a shell and start Skype > jk> that way (or look in .xsession-errors in your home dir). > > Xsess

apt-get network problems

2006-11-13 Thread Tom Allison
I'm having a lot of trouble with the apt-get update process. I keep getting errors trying to update the packages. Most of this seems to hang on ftp.us.debian.org. Which I am begining to suspect is an alias for mirrors as I'm finding network IP traffic to different debian mirrors other than t

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 05:04, anonymous wrote: > I was planning to download and test install Debian for the first time. > However, when I browsed the website below: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r3/i386/iso-cd/ > > for a download, I found out that I would need to download 18 CDs: 15

Re: C++ exception handling question [solved]

2006-11-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:05:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:41:52AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > I'm not a professional programmer, so my standards of reasonableness > > are not tempered by 'real world' experience. I use C++ to write > > simulation code f

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