Re: Streaming video

2007-12-13 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Keith Bates wrote: > For some reason I have problems downloading video clips from most > mainstream news providers. > > For example on the front page of www.smh.com.au there is a picture at > the moment of a mouse fearlessly staring down a cat. This picture links > to a Windows Media clip. > > W

Re: Network is unreachable email error

2007-12-13 Thread hce
On 12/13/07, Mihira Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed December 12 2007 10:58 am, hce wrote: > > Almost, but it has following error for certificates, it seems that was > > a ssl proglem, but I don't know how to fix it: > > > > Dec 12 21:50:42 debian postfix/master[2740]: reload configurat

Re: Network is unreachable email error

2007-12-13 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Thu December 13 2007 10:58 am, hce wrote: > I did exactly as per above, but it still cannot post as the same > following ssl errors, is there something missing? > > Dec 13 21:43:53 debian postfix/smtp[4100]: certificate verification > failed for smtp.gmail.com: num=20:unable to get local issuer

Compile boinc for amd64

2007-12-13 Thread Fabio
Someone of you have ever compile this package? do you think that is possible to increase the power of boinc? there is some guide and so on that you can suggest me? thanks Fabio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT] Yeah for Opera!

2007-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL1337269720071213 Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: import in kino from screen recording tools (avi, mov, ?)

2007-12-13 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! 2007/12/12, Peter Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:36:41PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > > But I can't to import them on Debian Etc with kino. > > I get an error message: > > Failed to load media file > > "/dfat32/Iskola/SketchUp video folveteleim/sketchup.avi.dv" > >

Re: OT: Turion64 motherboard?

2007-12-13 Thread koffiejunkie
Bob wrote: koffiejunkie wrote: Hi guys, My Turion64 notebook's motherboard is dying, and since replacing it costs more than another notebook (which I already bought...), I'm hoping to use the CPU in a little media-center/file-server box. Does anyone have experience of using Turion64 CPUs on

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-13 Thread Nick Boyce
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: > >> (Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum >> behaviour. In particular it returns an exit status of zero in various >> failure situations [...] >> I did a quick test with 'apt-get'

Using Linda

2007-12-13 Thread David Schulberg
Hi All, Have just set up Linda or I thought I had. When I run 'linda package.deb' I get errors as follows: debian:/home/david/Desktop/Downloads# linda checkinstall_1.6.1-1_i386.deb Linda: Running as root, dropping to nobody. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/linda", li

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-13 Thread Nick Boyce
Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +, Nick Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > >> Does anyone think another bug report is called for ? >> It looks as though it's known that the error handling behaviour >> needs attention but it's not high on anybody's TODO l

Howto: change IceDove UI font size

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
The toolbar, folder list, and message list font was way too small on my Etch IceDove install, so I had to research how to change this - you can't do it in the Preference or Config Editor. So, for the betterment of all humankind, here's how: In you IceDove profile folder ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/, c

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:57:55PM +, Nick Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > > ... If you want this in a hurry your best bet is to either > > send a working patch to a bug report or (if such a patch > > already exists) to harass me via email until I apply i

Re: [OT] Yeah for Opera!

2007-12-13 Thread Angus Auld
--- Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL1337269720071213 > > Hugo > This is great.the bully is being confronted by a little guy who's tired of being pushed around. I love it! ;) MS users shou

Latest kernel security update wont boot

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
I am running etch on a Dell with ide drives, using LILO I just used aptitude to install the latest security update to the 2.6.18 kernel, 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5 The install produced a message about the fact that it was updating the running kernel and I should reboot right away - which I did. Reboo

Initial boot messages on terminal

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
Is there a boot option to have the terminal pause at each page of messages. For early boot problems, I can't see the messages that lead to the panic, because they scroll off the screen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

ppp set up

2007-12-13 Thread jamesfoster
Hi, I still cannot set up dial up internet connection for Debian Etch. Help! I try to install the wvdial program but get 'Error: Dependency is not satisfied: libaniconf4.2' so no joy there. I have installed the ppp program as advised in a help section of the Debian.org site but when I type in '

Re: Using Linda

2007-12-13 Thread Chris Lale
David Schulberg wrote: > Hi All, > > > > Have just set up Linda or I thought I had. > > When I run 'linda package.deb' I get errors as follows: > > > > debian:/home/david/Desktop/Downloads# linda checkinstall_1.6.1-1_i386.deb > > Linda: Running as root, dropping to nobody. > > Traceback

Re: vim syntax line

2007-12-13 Thread Bernd Prager
Jerome, Could you figure out what the issue is and how to fix that? I am using version 7.0.235 and I experience the same problem. My debian.vim does not mention anything about the syntax option. -- Bernd On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:34:59 +0800, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > ther

Postfix: local aliases vs virtual mailboxes

2007-12-13 Thread Stephane Durieux
Hello, As a newbie I need advices concerning Postfix accounts method. I am dithering between aliases to local system accounts and virtual mailboxes. I have only a domain to manage (so virtual mailboxes are not mandatory, only an option) But I need a good level of security So : - alias to loc

Re: ppp set up

2007-12-13 Thread John Hasler
jamesfoster writes: > I try to install the wvdial program but get 'Error: Dependency is not > satisfied: libaniconf4.2' How did you install wvdial? > I cant' find a program called 'am' that the help notes advised me to > install with the 'ppp' program. There does not seem to be any 'am'

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot

2007-12-13 Thread Graham
On 13 Dec 2007 10:38:00 -0500 Marc Auslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running etch on a Dell with ide drives, using LILO > > I just used aptitude to install the latest security update to the > 2.6.18 kernel, 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5 > > The install produced a message about the fact that it

Re: Compile boinc for amd64

2007-12-13 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Fabio wrote: > Someone of you have ever compile this package? do you think that is > possible to increase the power of boinc? > there is some guide and so on that you can suggest me? > thanks > Fabio Hi Fabio, I assume you want to compile a 64 bit version. I found this on the Boinc website: http:/

changing hwclock's timezone

2007-12-13 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I have a friend whose time is being reported incorrectly with the date command and the hwclock command. Both commands are reporting the commands in UTC instead of the eastern timezone. He just installed ntp on his box. His /etc/timezone is America/New_York The output of the da

Re: Compile boinc for amd64

2007-12-13 Thread Fabio
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Fabio wrote: Someone of you have ever compile this package? do you think that is possible to increase the power of boinc? there is some guide and so on that you can suggest me? thanks Fabio Hi Fabio, I assume you want to compile a 64 bit version. I found this on the Boinc

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-13 Thread Joey Hess
bts tag 233129 d-i thanks Daniel Burrows wrote: > I'm currently busy working on other parts of the program. If you want > this in a hurry your best bet is to either send a working patch to a bug > report or (if such a patch already exists) to harass me via email until > I apply it. :-) Prefera

Re: Postfix: local aliases vs virtual mailboxes

2007-12-13 Thread Allan Wind
On 2007-12-13T17:55:08+0100, Stephane Durieux wrote: > But I need a good level of security > > So : > > - alias to local accounts with /bin/false for users in > /etc/passwd plus netfilter and pam restriction (ssh > ...) > > - virtual mailboxes If you do not need the accounts then use virtual

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
Graham wrote: On 13 Dec 2007 10:38:00 -0500 Marc Auslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am running etch on a Dell with ide drives, using LILO I just used aptitude to install the latest security update to the 2.6.18 kernel, 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5 The install produced a message about the fact th

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:56:53PM +, Nick Boyce wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: > > > >> (Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum > >> behaviour. In particular it returns an exit status of zero in var

RE: Files/directories dated 2012?

2007-12-13 Thread Robert Bond
>> I ran apt-get update on my etch system yesterday. It has been a while so 40+ >> packages showed up to be upgraded. I installed them... Most of it appeared >> to be Open Office upgrades. The upgrade blew up. I tracked the problem down >> to the fact that many files and directories on my system ha

Using exim as SMTP-AUTH client

2007-12-13 Thread Felix Karpfen
I have located the following relevant info in "/usr/share/doc/exim4-config/README.Debian.gz": If you want to set up exim as SMTP AUTH client for delivery to your internet access provider's smarthost put the name of the server, your login and password in /etc/exim4/passwd.client. See the

Strange error message from mac-fdisk in Lenny on PowerMac G4

2007-12-13 Thread Rick Thomas
Anybody know what this error message means? greybox:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda mac-fdisk: Symbol `sys_errlist' has different size in shared object, onsider re-linking The machine in question is a PowerMac G4 running Lenny. Thoughts? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:36:42PM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: >> Marc Auslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I am running etch on a Dell with ide drives, using LILO >>> >>> I just used aptitude to install the latest security update to the >>> 2.6.18 kernel, 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5 >>> >>> The

Re: Compile boinc for amd64

2007-12-13 Thread Magnus Therning
Fabio wrote: > Someone of you have ever compile this package? do you think that is > possible to increase the power of boinc? > there is some guide and so on that you can suggest me? Any particular reason why you want to compile it yourself rather than just install it from the Debian repos? It's

Re: Compile boinc for amd64

2007-12-13 Thread Fabio
Magnus Therning wrote: Fabio wrote: Someone of you have ever compile this package? do you think that is possible to increase the power of boinc? there is some guide and so on that you can suggest me? Any particular reason why you want to compile it yourself rather than just install it from the

captive portal with Debian

2007-12-13 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm looking to set up a WiFi gateway with two nics, and iptables. The catch is i have to use a captive portal as well to ensure all traffic goes to a single destination. I've read about several packages, but haven't seen any docs that say how to integrate everything. If anyone has thi

exim - config & timing of the queue - a few Q's :)

2007-12-13 Thread Bob Goldberg
running debian etch, exim4; running exim as a relay to an internal email server; no local [to debian] mail or users. I know that I want a que, because if my internal email server is down, I want exim to collect & hold Email for it. Otherwise, I want email sent to it immediately. Apparently, the qu

Using Linda

2007-12-13 Thread David Schulberg
Hi All, Have just set up Linda or I thought I had. When I run 'linda package.deb' I get errors as follows: debian:/home/david/Desktop/Downloads# linda checkinstall_1.6.1-1_i386.deb Linda: Running as root, dropping to nobody. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/linda", li

Re: Network is unreachable email error

2007-12-13 Thread hce
On 12/14/07, Mihira Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu December 13 2007 10:58 am, hce wrote: > > > I did exactly as per above, but it still cannot post as the same > > following ssl errors, is there something missing? > > > > Dec 13 21:43:53 debian postfix/smtp[4100]: certificate verifica

Re: exim - config & timing of the queue - a few Q's :)

2007-12-13 Thread David Brodbeck
On Dec 13, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Bob Goldberg wrote: Apparently, the que is not used for "local" delivery, and is only used to send Email on to its final destination. So, in my application, I expect that ALL deliverable Email is placed in the que. I read that there is immediate email delivery,

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
I tried again - I did in fact (ignore earlier post) see the OK and clicked on it. initrd.img winds up being 89 bytes long. The output of the configure follow. The only anomoly is the comment about a missing link. There is a /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-686, but it does not contain an entry names sourc

exim as a nullclient

2007-12-13 Thread Dave
Hello, I've got a new Debian box that's running exim. I'd like to set it up as a nullclient, that is it sends all mail, like from cron and so forth, to a central mail server. Is there a setup to make this happen? Thanks. Dave. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: ppp set up

2007-12-13 Thread David
jamesfoster wrote: Hi, Hello James, I still cannot set up dial up internet connection for Debian Etch. Help! I try to install the wvdial program but get 'Error: Dependency is not satisfied: libaniconf4.2' I don't know what that's about. If it's a dependency, apt should pull it in. so no j

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
On 12/13/2007 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: the command will be something like mkinitramfs -o initrd.img-2.6.18-version-arch -k 2.6.18-version-arch be sure to move the other one aside first. and since you're using lilo, make sure you aer aware of what your symlinks are and so forth. I tried

Re: Using exim as SMTP-AUTH client

2007-12-13 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:24:14 + (UTC) Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have located the following relevant info in > > "/usr/share/doc/exim4-config/README.Debian.gz": > >If you want to set up exim as SMTP AUTH client for delivery to your >internet access provider's smartho

Re: FreeAgent USB HDD (update)

2007-12-13 Thread Wim De Smet
On Nov 29, 2007 9:18 PM, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I rebooted and then once I went into the filesystem I saw that the > system recognised it, but did not automount it. This is something that I > have noticed in the last while - USB data sticks are not being > automounted the way they used t

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:22:10PM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: > On 12/13/2007 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> the command will be something like >> >> mkinitramfs -o initrd.img-2.6.18-version-arch -k 2.6.18-version-arch >> be sure to move the other one aside first. and since you're using >> lilo

Getting segmentation faults with glxinfo, mplayer and others

2007-12-13 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. I am running Debian stable. Suddenly when I run mplayer, xine, xmms, glxinfo and other I get segmentation fault. I have tried running both with and with Nvidia drivers. I have run a memtest without any errors. What can be causing this? Best regards. Rico. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Getting segmentation faults with glxinfo, mplayer and others

2007-12-13 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:39:11 +0100 Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Solution found! Can someone please explain why doing this: touch /etc/ld.so.nohwcap Solves the problem? > Hi. > > I am running Debian stable. > > Suddenly when I run mplayer, xine, xmms, glxinfo and other I get > segme

Re: Getting segmentation faults with glxinfo, mplayer and others

2007-12-13 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2007/12/13, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:39:11 +0100 > Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Solution found! > > Can someone please explain why doing this: > > touch /etc/ld.so.nohwcap > > Solves the problem? > > > Hi. > > > > I am running Debian stable. > > > > Su

Re: Getting segmentation faults with glxinfo, mplayer and others

2007-12-13 Thread Bill O'Connor
Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:39:11 +0100 > Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Solution found! > > Can someone please explain why doing this: > > touch /etc/ld.so.nohwcap > > Solves the problem? Well, that causes the dynamic linker to use the non-optimiz

Re: Using Linda

2007-12-13 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2007/12/13, David Schulberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi All, > > > > Have just set up Linda or I thought I had. > > When I run 'linda package.deb' I get errors as follows: [snip] > What is the problem here? Hello, maybe you should post that question to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best regards, Sergio Cue

Strange ATA problems

2007-12-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi everybody. Today I've experienced a very strange problem. I have a CD/DVD drive connected via USB,... and while woking the system suddenly freezed (at least those processes that tried to access the hardsisk). Looking at dmesg it showed me this: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] enabled at IRQ 1

Re: Getting segmentation faults with glxinfo, mplayer and others

2007-12-13 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:57:16 -0600 "Sergio Cuéllar Valdés" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/12/13, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:39:11 +0100 > > Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Solution found! > > > > Can someone please explain why doing this: > > > >

aptitude update "BADSIG" error

2007-12-13 Thread Nick
While I'm looking at aptitude, it seems worth mentioning a problem I've been seeing since Etch was released: that is 'aptitude update' downloads the updated package lists (or not, if they haven't changed), and then reports that the GPG signature on something (that is not clearly identified) is inva

Re: aptitude crashing x?

2007-12-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 08:01:14AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:30:43PM -0800, joseph lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > > Does it go through the usual reboot procedure (so > > >you see "stopping > > >down ___ ... done") or does it just abruptly re

Re: OT: clicky keyboards

2007-12-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 01:07:34PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 11:16:47AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> How about the Atari 800 (or was it the 400?) that had the bare > >> membrane. ugh. now that wa

Re: OT: clicky keyboards

2007-12-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:26:25AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/09/07 06:34, Nate Duehr wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >> Listening to people sing in Italian (or German) about incest and > >> matricide is not my cup of tea. > > > > We'll make sure not to eve

Fwd: Installing Etch and upgrading or Lenny directly

2007-12-13 Thread David Fox
-- Forwarded message -- From: David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:41:37 -0800 Subject: Re: Installing Etch and upgrading or Lenny directly To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12/10/07, Guillermo Garron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After almost a year with Etch, I want to

Re: Network is unreachable email error

2007-12-13 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Thu December 13 2007 9:16 pm, hce wrote: > $ sudo apt-get install sasl > E: Couldn't find package sasl > > What is the SASL package name? > Thank you. > Kind Regards, > Jim $apt-cache search libsasl I believe the package is libsasl2 Mihira. PS. Please send replies to list only. -- Random Q

Re: server name

2007-12-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 10:18:10PM -0800, rockymaxsource wrote: > > My company has a server whose name is server1.domain.net. The server > has WHM / Cpanel. We are thinking of migrate to another server. We > want to name is server2.domain.net. Is this cause any problem? As I see it, the problems

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot resolved

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
The problem is operator (that's me) stupidity. I have an overloaded find so I can say find foo and have it mean find . -name foo -print mkinitramfs uses find . | cpio to build the initrd.img I have my stuff in the path (yeh i know i know) I've wasted my time - i deserve it - and your time - yo

Re: How Linux becomes Windows

2007-12-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:27:30PM +0100, Dirk wrote: > I won't start commenting on all this HAL, udev and similar bullshit. > > But this error message when I used modconf: "update-modules deprecated" > > Is another sign that people here are trying to emulate even the bad > sides of Windows. > >

Re: Initial boot messages on terminal

2007-12-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:39:39AM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: > Is there a boot option to have the terminal pause at each page of > messages. For early boot problems, I can't see the messages that lead > to the panic, because they scroll off the screen. Best bet is to set up a serial console an

Re: How Linux becomes Windows

2007-12-13 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 13 December 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:27:30PM +0100, Dirk wrote: > > I won't start commenting on all this HAL, udev and similar > > bullshit. > > > > But this error message when I used modconf: "update-modules > > deprecated" > > > > Is another sign that

Re: exim as a nullclient

2007-12-13 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 16:39:21 -0500, Dave wrote: >I've got a new Debian box that's running exim. I'd like to set it up as a > nullclient, that is it sends all mail, like from cron and so forth, to a > central mail server. Is there a setup to make this happen? A) You'd be better off usi