Re: Apt pinning suspect?

2008-05-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 03:54:10PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jaime Tarrant wrote: > > Rich Healey wrote: > > Hi List, > > [snip] > > I'll give that a shot, although the problem is _NOT_ at the stage of > installing, `apt-cache policy kfind` d

Re: Gnome display fonts have disappered

2008-05-13 Thread Micha
On Mon, 12 May 2008 17:19:27 -0500 "A. Lester Buck III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I had a bit of corruption appear on the system disk for my Debian > testing system. The file systems all check fine now, but the Gnome > display shows no text fonts. Everything else is fine, I can lo

Re: Apt pinning suspect?

2008-05-13 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 03:54:10PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: > Jaime Tarrant wrote: Rich Healey wrote: Hi List, >> [snip] > I'll give that a shot, although the problem is _NOT_ at the stage of > installing, `apt-cache

Re: bigmem kernel 2.6.24-1

2008-05-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
ChadDavis wrote: There was a similar email to list a few months ago. IIRC, someone had the solution. Google should find the thread. Yes. I tried to search for this. And nothing. Any search terms suggestsions, other than: debian bigmem kernel linux With site:lists.debian.

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition. very slow. how to tell what is happening?

2008-05-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
This is no answer to the question, although it may be of interest: There is an on-going discussion on the linux kernel mailing list about speeding up fsck for ext3, see, e.g. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/13/3 -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: window manager

2008-05-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:08:11PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > When I login into X from gdm I get XFCE, but when i login via startx at > the commandline prompt I get gnome, how do I change startx to do the > same as gdm ? or atleast to set it to xfce typically i found the answer after postin

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:05:08PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most > apps, very little screen estate is left for the actual stuff and most of > it is eaten up by the menubars, toolbars, and othe gui elements. I have > my gn

window manager

2008-05-13 Thread Alex Samad
Hi When I login into X from gdm I get XFCE, but when i login via startx at the commandline prompt I get gnome, how do I change startx to do the same as gdm ? or atleast to set it to xfce alex -- "I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment. Nor was I w

Re: Apt pinning suspect?

2008-05-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 06:25:00PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > [snip] > > Err... did you read the original post, where i showed the apt-cache > policy for the two suspect package? > > (short, not snide answer, yes) sorry long thread, jumped in l

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-05-06 20:56:09, schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso: > Although it's true that sometimes the C++ Hello World seems bloated to > the C Hello World, the difference becomes negligible in any project of > considerable size beyond Hello World. Embedded devices may be a > different thing, and I under

Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

2008-05-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-05-08 17:48:55, schrieb NN_il_Confusionario: > you do not need a new "session" but a new istance of the X server (or > possibly not, as the above file explains). If you are using gdm / kdm / > xdm / wdm ... (as opposed to startx), then a logout does NOT start a new > istance of the X server

Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

2008-05-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-05-08 22:13:15, schrieb Manu Hack: > I don't know exactly why, but on my machine after running > update-alternatives, the cursor won't change immediately but if I run > ooffice, after that I can always see the change on the openoffice windows. END OF REPLIED MESSAGE

Re: Which distro for workstations?

2008-05-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Mike, Am 2008-05-09 08:11:59, schrieb Mike Bird: > Hi Michelle, > > FWIW. these are the package changes we noticed > between approx Jan 3rd and May 3rd, the four > month period mentioned in the original email. Ah yes, I was counting only the SOURCE packages... Thanks, Greetings and nice Day

[OT] Ogg-Player and SSH client for Symbian S60 3rd Generation

2008-05-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Now I have checked over 20 Websites but all Ogg-Player are not working on SmartPhone "Nokia 6120 classic" with Symbian S60 third Generation. I have only found Ogg-Players for the first and second Generation, which are not compatibel. Can anyone tell me where I can get a suitable Ogg-Pla

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-13 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
On May 12, 3:40 pm, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most > apps, very little screen estate is left for the actual stuff and most of > it is eaten up by the menubars, toolbars, and othe gui elements. I have > my gnome p

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:40:45AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > If you want less stuff installed, then you can tell aptitude not to > install 'recommends', If a package is listed as a recommends and you consider it should only be a suggests it is considered a bug. -- Chris. == "One, with God,

Re: exim bug

2008-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 01:06:26AM +0200, Sia Neriman wrote: > hi > i use lenny and have this error > The following partially installed packages will be configured: > exim4-daemon-light > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. After

Re: [OT] Ogg-Player and SSH client for Symbian S60 3rd Generation

2008-05-13 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Michelle Konzack wrote: > The same problem is with the SSH/SCP/SFTP Clients where SICFTP does not > support SSL and I need a solution too. > I don't know about SCP/SFTP, but there is a port of putty for Symbian: http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/ -- Law of the Jungle: He who hesitates i

Re: SATA hotplug in Etch?

2008-05-13 Thread kj
Owen B. Mehegan wrote: My question is this: Can anyone confirm that full SATA hotplug support is present in the newer 2.6 kernels? Is it present in Etch, or do I need to upgrade to testing or unstable? Bonus question: Can you point me to a set of instructions for what exactly I need to do on t

Re: window manager

2008-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/08 04:08, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > When I login into X from gdm I get XFCE, but when i login via startx at > the commandline prompt I get gnome, how do I change startx to do the > same as gdm ? or atleast to set it to xfce Try startxfce (o

no recording with mic and audacity

2008-05-13 Thread Bernd Kloss
Etch Terratec-Soundcard KDE Hello, I have no clue where in Debian my problem is. Trying to do some recording with microphone, I can hear the input via speakers, but audacity or KRec won't record. In KMix there are the green and red button activated for MIC: device   Sound Fusion CS46xx In kcon

Re: window manager

2008-05-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Alex Samad wrote: Hi When I login into X from gdm I get XFCE, but when i login via startx at the commandline prompt I get gnome, how do I change startx to do the same as gdm ? or atleast to set it to xfce alex Create a shell script .xsession in your home directory. Put whatever you like in

Re: Gnome display fonts have disappered

2008-05-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
A. Lester Buck III wrote: Hi, I had a bit of corruption appear on the system disk for my Debian testing system. The file systems all check fine now, but the Gnome display shows no text fonts. Everything else is fine, I can login (it doesn't show my username as I type), and as I mouse over the

Re: Shutting off graphical ssh agent popup?

2008-05-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 07:59:21PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > The ssh-agent is started by > > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent > > You can edit this file to make sure ssh-agent is not started > automatically anymore with the X session. Or actually: remove "use-ssh-agent" from /etc

Need advanced samples of sshd_config

2008-05-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello I'm working to create a graphical sshd_config editor based on Config::Model [1]. To test it, I need some samples of sshd_config files which use advanced options like ClientAliveCountMax, Match blocks, AllowUser... If you have such a sshd_config files, could you please send it me ? (But be

Need advanced samples of sshd_config

2008-05-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello I'm working to create a graphical sshd_config editor based on Config::Model [1]. To test it, I need some samples of sshd_config files which use advanced options like ClientAliveCountMax, Match blocks, AllowUser... If you have such a sshd_config files, could you please send it me ? (But be

Ardour2

2008-05-13 Thread Cassiel
hello list, any ideas about how long do we have to wait for ardour to re-enter testing distribution? r

Re: Kernel panic: initramfs problem? [SOLVED - mostly]

2008-05-13 Thread Bill
On Mon, 2008-12-05 at 08:18 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > First thing I'd check is that the initramfs built successfully. > We've had a number of failures over the years where the /boot > partition became full and the resulting initramfs was corrupt. > Check, for example, that the initramfs is about th

replacing pxe.linux.0

2008-05-13 Thread abelahcene
Hi, I install successfully debian via pxe (dhcp and al.) , from a remote server, but I want instead of using pxe.linux.0 , I want to use a full CD1, to do the installation without using extra server. Is it possible ? thanks a lot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Setting Video Card

2008-05-13 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Hi All, How do I tell the xserver what video card to use? Thanks in advance for your help. Stephen Grant Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: replacing pxe.linux.0

2008-05-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
abelahcene wrote: Hi, I install successfully debian via pxe (dhcp and al.) , from a remote server, but I want instead of using pxe.linux.0 , I want to use a full CD1, to do the installation without using extra server. Is it possible ? thanks a lot Boot from CD1 and install? Or am I missing

Xdmcp on light client

2008-05-13 Thread abelahcene
Hi, I want to log from light client (diskless terminals), on one machine , simple PC the connexion is Ok, I received the gdm login, on another machine server , the connexion is possible from a PC but not from light client, it just blinking. May be a gdm problem, version 2.16, gnome-core 2.14; th

Re: Setting Video Card

2008-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/08 08:16, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: > Hi All, > > How do I tell the xserver what video card to use? Please be more specific in your question. What problem are you trying to solve? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shru

Re: Setting Video Card

2008-05-13 Thread Benjamin Schmidt
Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Hi All, How do I tell the xserver what video card to use? Thanks in advance for your help. Stephen Grant Brown Assumed you have the x-server "xorg" in use... A simple and quick configuration menu you get when you call the command: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-

Re: no recording with mic and audacity

2008-05-13 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:51:06 +0200 Bernd Kloss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Etch > Terratec-Soundcard > KDE > > I have no clue where in Debian my problem is. Trying to do some > > > > Audacity: recording-device: /dev/dsp > If you are running

Re: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-05-13 Thread Carl Fink
I believe I have been doing something stupid. I just noticed (or thought about, really) looking at the Grub menu, that I'm using the AMD64 kernel. Will ndiswrapper work right with 64-bit Linux and what I'm betting is a 32-bit driver? Can I solve this by downloading a 64-bit Broadcom Windows driv

Re: replacing pxe.linux.0

2008-05-13 Thread Benjamin Schmidt
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: abelahcene wrote: Hi, I install successfully debian via pxe (dhcp and al.) , from a remote server, but I want instead of using pxe.linux.0 , I want to use a full CD1, to do the installation without using extra server. Is it possible ? thanks a lot Boot from CD1 a

Re: network card change

2008-05-13 Thread steef
Kum Gabor wrote: Hello Everybody! I need a little help with setting up a new network card: I changed mainboard in my computer, and I have new integrated network card, works with forcedeth module, but I don't know how to set up. I tried modprobe forcedeth, but not appears eth0. Can somebody hel

64bit vs i386

2008-05-13 Thread Abraham Chaffin
I've got a 64 bit server that will be a standard debian LAMP and wondering if it makes a difference if I install the 64bit version of the debian vs the i386 version of debian? If it's just running apache, perl, and php what are the benefits and drawbacks of both? Thanks, Abraham

Re: Adaptec AIC7770 error during install

2008-05-13 Thread Stetson, Gary M.
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LVM upgrade: Device '/dev/dm-0' has been left open

2008-05-13 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hi! I have LVM setup on dm-crypt. After yesterday's upgrade of lvm (lenny), I am getting this message on boot: Found volume group evg using metadata type lvm2 Device '/dev/dm-0' has been left open Device '/dev/dm-0' has been left open Two logical volumes in volume group... Except from that

Re: 64bit vs i386

2008-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/08 11:45, Abraham Chaffin wrote: > I've got a 64 bit server that will be a standard debian LAMP and > wondering if it makes a difference if I install the 64bit version of the > debian vs the i386 version of debian? > If it's just running apach

Re: exim bug

2008-05-13 Thread Simon Brandmair
On Tue, 13 May 2008 14:30:15 +0200 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 01:06:26AM +0200, Sia Neriman wrote: >> hi >> i use lenny and have this error >> The following partially installed packages will be configured: >> exim4-daemon-light >> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 t

Re: After update perl ,apt-cacher won't work

2008-05-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:28:15 +0800, 刘建才 wrote: > Hi, > I updated My Debian 4.0 server yesterday,but forget exactly which > package upgraded,only remember perl related things, then apt-cacher > didn't work ,after i referenced the line 12 in > /usr/share/perl5/HTTP/Date.pm,Every thing seems OK,is

[OT] Comcast, Verizon and Google censoring the internet?

2008-05-13 Thread Pigeon
Yeah, tin foil hats on... but SOMETHING weird is going on and I suspect this is the best place to find people who can tell me what. And after all my webserver does run Debian :-) I've been noticing some very strange activity in my webserver logs over the last few days. It only seems to happen to p

openssl vulnerability and RSA keys

2008-05-13 Thread Ross Boylan
The recent security advisory for Debian's version of openssl says that you should regenerate all keys, and that DSA keys should be considered compromised. Does this mean that RSA keys for openssh should not be considered compromised? If so, why the need to regenerate them? Thanks. Ross Boylan

where did www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ go?

2008-05-13 Thread Rody
In response to the latest security issue with ssl / ssh, i updated my packages with the new fixed versions of ssl. However the steps to regenerate the keys are not available on: www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ as the security advisory tells us. According to google, the page did exist 4 hou

Re: 64bit vs i386

2008-05-13 Thread Abraham Chaffin
Thanks for the reply- > I've got a 64 bit server that will be a standard debian LAMP and > > wondering if it makes a difference if I install the 64bit version of the > > debian vs the i386 version of debian? > > If it's just running apache, perl, and php what are the benefits and > > Where's the d

Re: [OT] Comcast, Verizon and Google censoring the internet?

2008-05-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:10:10PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > Yeah, tin foil hats on... but SOMETHING weird is going on > and I suspect this is the best place to find people who can > tell me what. And after all my webserver does run Debian :-) > > I've been noticing some very strange activity in my w

Diskette? (was Re: where did www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ go?)

2008-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/08 14:27, Ross Boylan wrote: [snip] > 1) regenerated keys in ~/.ssh, including tossing my old authorized keys > from other systems. I put the new key on a diskette to take to my other What's that? Is it like a little Frisbee-shaped thumb dr

Re: where did www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ go?

2008-05-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:20:55PM +0200, Rody wrote: > > In response to the latest security issue with ssl / ssh, i updated my > packages > with the new fixed versions of ssl. However the steps to regenerate the keys > are not available on: > www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ > as the secu

Re: where did www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ go?

2008-05-13 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 20:20 +0200, Rody wrote: > In response to the latest security issue with ssl / ssh, i updated my > packages > with the new fixed versions of ssl. However the steps to regenerate the keys > are not available on: > www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ > as the security advis

Re: where did www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ go?

2008-05-13 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/5/14 Rody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > In response to the latest security issue with ssl / ssh, i updated my > packages > with the new fixed versions of ssl. However the steps to regenerate the keys > are not available on: > www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ > as the security advisory te

Re: where did www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ go?

2008-05-13 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Adrian Levi wrote: > 2008/5/14 Rody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> In response to the latest security issue with ssl / ssh, i updated my >> packages >> with the new fixed versions of ssl. However the steps to regenerate the keys >> are not available on: >> www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ >

Commercial support for Debian?

2008-05-13 Thread JW
Does anyone know of a reasonable, trustworthy company that provides tech support for Debian (pure regular Genuine Debian - not some customized version) in the U.S.? I'm talking about high-level consultants that an experienced System Administrator / technician can call or email to get help with

listserve

2008-05-13 Thread John P Loes, MD
Hello again, By-the-way, I did not get a response back when I applied to your listserve last Saturday. John  [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anoka Area Family Medicine Clinic, PA 3883 Coon Rapids Blvd Coon Rapids, MN 55433 763 421-CARE (2273) 763 421-2273 fax

Re: listserve

2008-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/08 15:37, John P Loes, MD wrote: > Hello again, By-the-way, I did not get a response back when I applied to > your listserve last Saturday. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -BEGI

Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
I'm getting a little tired of Gmail serving me Matlab ads whenever I'm browsing the Octave mailing lists. That's quite obnoxious. It looks like it's tricky to block Google ads, since it looks like Google can detect when you're using Adblock and serves you ads in instead, making them harder to bloc

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 25 floréal, an CCXVI, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso a écrit : > I'm getting a little tired of Gmail serving me Matlab ads whenever I'm > browsing the Octave mailing lists. That's quite obnoxious. It looks > like it's tricky to block Google ads, since it looks like Google can > detect when you

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/08 17:03, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > I'm getting a little tired of Gmail serving me Matlab ads whenever I'm > browsing the Octave mailing lists. That's quite obnoxious. It looks > like it's tricky to block Google ads, since it looks like

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Emre Sahin
"Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > I'd be happy with a solution that either blocks all Gmail ads or a > better method to browse the 14 mailing lists I'm currently subscribed > to, many of them high-volume. I'm beginning to miss Usenet. > > - Jordi G. H. > You can u

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 03:03:27 pm Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > Can anyone suggest a fix? I only use Gmail for mailing lists nowadays, > and have moved my personal email to a server in an undisclosed > location in a remote island... ;-) Why not use that for mailing lists as well? It's not li

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:03:27PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > I'm getting a little tired of Gmail serving me Matlab ads whenever I'm > browsing the Octave mailing lists. That's quite obnoxious. It looks > like it's tricky to block Google ads, since it looks like Google can > detect whe

Re: where did www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ go?

2008-05-13 Thread Joey Hess
Rody wrote: > In response to the latest security issue with ssl / ssh, i updated my > packages > with the new fixed versions of ssl. However the steps to regenerate the keys > are not available on: > www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ > as the security advisory tells us. > According to google

Re: where did www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ go?

2008-05-13 Thread Joey Hess
Ross Boylan wrote: > 2) cd /etc/ssh; invoke-rc.d ssh stop; rm *host*; > dpkg-reconfigure --default-priority openssh-server There's no need to stop ssh. Just rm /etc/ssh/*host*; dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server And then go fix all your ~/.authorized_keys files. And also openvpn and SSL certificat

Kernel building 2.6.18-5-686 -> 2.6.25.2 on VMWare

2008-05-13 Thread Mike Ely
Hi there, I'm trying to update from the Debian-supplied stock kernel to 2.6.25.2 on Etch (for GFS2 purposes), and, on my VMWare instance, the new kernel seems always to hang at "Waiting for root filesystem." I've tried passing different options to make-kpkg, but the result is always the same. Ke

Re: where did www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ go?

2008-05-13 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Joey Hess wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > >> 2) cd /etc/ssh; invoke-rc.d ssh stop; rm *host*; >> dpkg-reconfigure --default-priority openssh-server >> > > There's no need to stop ssh. Just > rm /etc/ssh/*host*; dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server > Here I ran /etc/init.d/ssh restart after p

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 13/05/2008, Nicolas George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le quintidi 25 floréal, an CCXVI, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso a écrit : Floréal? :-) > > I'm getting a little tired of Gmail serving me Matlab ads whenever I'm > > browsing the Octave mailing lists. > > > > Can anyone suggest a fix? > > >

Re: where did www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ go?

2008-05-13 Thread Joey Hess
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Here I ran /etc/init.d/ssh restart after purging the host keys, is that > enough or does dpkg-reconfigure do something extra that is necessary? dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server generates any missing host keys, and restarts ssh for you. -- see shy jo signature.asc

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread John Hasler
Jordi writes: > Can anyone suggest a fix? You want a free service from an advertising agency without advertising? Right. > I'm beginning to miss Usenet. Usenet isn't gone. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: no recording with mic and audacity

2008-05-13 Thread Bernd Kloss
Am Dienstag, 13. Mai 2008 16:49 schrieb Frank McCormick: > On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:51:06 +0200 > > Bernd Kloss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Etch > > Terratec-Soundcard > > KDE > > > > I have no clue where in Debian my problem is. Trying to do some > > > > > > > > Audacity: recording-device: /dev/d

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 13/05/2008, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Usenet isn't gone. I think that Debian must be one of the last organisations that still uses Usenet. The Wesnoth, Octave, Maxima and VTK mailing lists don't have Usenet alternatives as far as I can see. Sage uses Google groups. :-( - Jordi G

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, May 13, 2008 3:59 pm, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > Any recommendation for a quality webmail service that uses free > software? I don't mind paying for the service, but I feel rather more > comfortable if I know that they use free software, maybe even Debian. > :-) If not, I think I may

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-05-13T17:03:27-0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > I'm getting a little tired of Gmail serving me Matlab ads whenever I'm > browsing the Octave mailing lists. That's quite obnoxious. It looks > like it's tricky to block Google ads, since it looks like Google can > detect when you're usin

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 13/05/2008, Allan Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper Excellent! I didn't know about this latter one. Even though I think I still want to move away from Gmail, it's nice to know that there are further tools to help fight the anti-ad battles. - Jordi G. H.

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/14 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm getting a little tired of Gmail serving me Matlab ads whenever I'm > browsing the Octave mailing lists. That's quite obnoxious. It looks > like it's tricky to block Google ads, since it looks like Google can > detect when you're using Adb

Re: where did www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ go?

2008-05-13 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Joey Hess wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Here I ran /etc/init.d/ssh restart after purging the host keys, is that enough or does dpkg-reconfigure do something extra that is necessary? dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server generates any missing host keys, and restarts ssh for you. Yo

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 May 2008 17:59:37 -0500 "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Actually I didn't... It looks like an option, but now I'm flirting > right now with the idea of using Lavabit, which looks like a nice > alternative, and I'd be quite happy to pay for a quality webmail >

Are Cfengine keys affected by the recent OpenSSL vulnerability?

2008-05-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know whether the Cfengine keys (/var/cfengine/ppkeys/*pub) are affected by the latest Debian OpenSSL vulnerability? Do they need to be regenerated? http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html The provided dowkd.pl does not parse Cfengine keys. Thanks, -- Arca

Re: openssl vulnerability and RSA keys

2008-05-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 13, 2:20 pm, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this mean that RSA keys for openssh should not be considered > compromised? If so, why the need to regenerate them? On our systems the dowkd.pl script found weak DSA and RSA keys, both as host keys, and as user-generated keypairs.

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 13/05/2008, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use several Lavabit free accounts, and I'm quite happy with them. So why are you sending from a Gmail account? > The intellectual property stuff doesn't really seem so bad: > > > > Intellectual Property > > You acknowledge that

Re: openssl vulnerability and RSA keys

2008-05-13 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 13, 2:20 pm, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does this mean that RSA keys for openssh should not be considered > > compromised? If so, why the need to regenerate them? > > On our systems the dowkd.

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 May 2008 17:59:37 -0500 "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Any recommendation for a quality webmail service that uses free > software? I don't mind paying for the service, but I feel rather more > comfortable if I know that they use free software, maybe even Deb

bash doubt

2008-05-13 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I have a script as follows [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat bin/getlstocks #!/bin/bash i=0 while [ $i -ne 20 ] do for trv in $(cat temp) do i=$i+1 grep $trv stock/nsedata/2008/05/20080512.txt >> lstock done done when I run I get error as integer expre

Re: bash doubt

2008-05-13 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 13/05/2008, L. V. Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a script as follows [snip] > i=$i+1 [snip] > How to correct it Your counter is wrong. $i + 1 means to treat i as a string and to append the string "1" to it. If you want to do arithmetic in bash, you have to put it in

Re: After update perl ,apt-cacher won't work

2008-05-13 Thread 刘建才
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:28:15 +0800, 刘建才 wrote: > > Hi, > > I updated My Debian 4.0 server yesterday,but forget exactly which > > package upgraded,only remember perl related things, then apt-cacher > > didn't work ,after i referenced the line 12 in > > /usr/share/perl5/HTTP/Date.pm,Every thing

Re: openssl vulnerability and RSA keys

2008-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/08 19:36, Nelson Castillo wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On May 13, 2:20 pm, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Does this mean that RSA keys for openssh should not be conside

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > > Well, the problem with software-as-service is that more and more > software is moving in that direction. Google, to mention the villain > du jour, Cute. > You take our free code, you have to give back free code. It seems > fair to me, but not to Google.

Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

2008-05-13 Thread Jack Dodds
Paul, Here are some answers from a Debian user. - What are you using Debian for? My family computer runs Debian. I started with Woody, upgraded (well, reinstalled, actually), and then upgraded (really) to etch. Our system has two "seats". The main seat has three virtual terminals. All the ter

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-13 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Tue, 13 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what is worth, after a good deal of trial periods I went for Ion and scrapped everything else. Simply fantastic. Granted, I didn't just want to optimise screen usage, but to get some efficiency back to the way I interact with my coputer. I'm n

Re: Where does apt store its arch?

2008-05-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 05:44:50PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I've recently installed a 32-bit chroot on a 64-bit system with the > "--arch=i386" flag to debootstrap, but I can't quite figure out how apt > knows that I want to continue downloading i386 debs instead of amd64 > debs. Where is thi

Re: where did www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ go?

2008-05-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:20:55PM +0200, Rody wrote: > > In response to the latest security issue with ssl / ssh, i updated my > packages > with the new fixed versions of ssl. However the steps to regenerate the keys > are not available on: > www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ After keys a

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:03:59PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:40:45AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > If you want less stuff installed, then you can tell aptitude not to > > install 'recommends', > > If a package is listed as a recommends and you consider it should onl

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 06:20:21AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:05:08PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Thank you and to all others for their suggestions. I shall try alternate > WMs, but the problem appears to have more to do wit

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 03:58:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/12/08 09:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most > > Maybe you're a Starving College Student, or maybe things cost more > in India (tariffs on imported Chinese goods

Re: no recording with mic and audacity

2008-05-13 Thread Fan Liu
I have encountered the same problem, the link below helped. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/help-i-cant-record-line-inmic-on-alsa-cs46xx-438831/ In a word: set capture active for ADC and DAC as well as for "capture" and line-in/mic. Cheers, Fan On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:12:1

Re: bash doubt

2008-05-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:05:16PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > If you want to do a lot of text manipulation, it may feel more natural > to use Perl (or at least it feels more natural to me). Or Python. Or Ada. Almost anything but sh. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/08 21:01, Steve Lamb wrote: [snip] > > They haven't released it for others to use. They're under no obligation > to share the source. That's not a loophole. That's freedom. If you don't think like I think people should think, you're E

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/08 20:21, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] > > I have a 9" bw monitor. I get along just fine with icewm. I'm sure But isn't that 9" monitor a VT520? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Setting Video Card

2008-05-13 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Dear Madams & Sirs Thanks Benjamin Schmidt for your advice. I have been spent about ten hours looking through documentation and trying things but to no avail. hwinfo told me that I had a Cirrus Lorgic GD5446 card but xdebconfigurator did not use it. Instead it used a SiS card and X failed to loa

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