Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/13/08 02:02, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:12:46PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: >> Actually, using two fingers for the second mouse button is very natural, as >> is dragging around with two fingers as if you were dragging a

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 19:02:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:12:46PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > Actually, using two fingers for the second mouse button is very natural, as > > is dragging around with two fingers as if you were dragging around the area > > you a

Re: Re: log kernel panic

Normally it should be dumped automatically

RE: pppoeconf does not work

I did something more. I bought a router to connect my desktop, laptop and the ADsL, and using the DHCP to set up the network, now all of them work fine, which means I can connect to internet through my ADSL from both my desktop and laptop concurrently. so I'm not worried about this issue tempora

making bootup fsck more user-friendly

Hi list. I already checked this problem with Google and with my LUG, and would like to ask on this mailing list before I fire off a bunch of feature requests in the Debian BTS. = FROM MAIL TO MY LUG = I've tried Googling for this but haven't found much info, so asking here. Every X days

popcon mail confusion

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Re: [soopar OT] Mac killed my keybaord

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 04:39:22PM +, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 12:12 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: >>> Nope, the right-click is just the same as any other two-button mouse. >>> Pushing the mouse down wit

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-13 11:25, David wrote: > Hi list. > > I already checked this problem with Google and with my LUG, and would > like to ask on this mailing list before I fire off a bunch of feature > requests in the Debian BTS. > > = FROM MAIL TO MY LUG

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

Hi and thanks for your reply. On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2008-06-13 11:25, David wrote: [...] > read 'man tune2fs' for some tips for setting interval and mount count to > something that

Debian on laptop

Dear Sirs, After spending hours of reading about the Linux distributions and compatible hardware, I feel I get crazzy. I chose you because of your "Social Contract", though I'm not sure Debian is still updated, apologize, I couldn't find recent articles, I am a newbye. Question: Could you reco

Re: Re: log kernel panic

Also you might find this link useful. The linux kernel crash dump project in sourceforge: http://lkcd.sourceforge.net/. Anooshiravan Merat

Re: .xsession-errors

Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Michelle, > > On 6/8/08, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Manon, >> >> Am 2008-06-07 02:16:31, schrieb Manon Metten: >> >> > On 6/6/08, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > > xset: bad font path element (#71), possible causes are: >> > >

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-13 13:38, David wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Johannes Wiedersich > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> read 'man tune2fs' for some tips for setting interval and mount count to >> something that better meets your needs. > > This isn't

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

David wrote: > Every X days or Y reboots, Linux (on my home PC, which I boot & shut > down 2x each day) wants to scan partitions for errors at startup. > While this is a bit annoying (can't use the PC for 10-20 minutes), I > usually let it finish and read a book while waiting. shutting down 2x ti

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/08 13:23, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/12/08 13:09, Paul Johnson wrote: About a year ago, though I had the misfortune of managing a sizable network of Apples about 10 y

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:49:00 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Andrew, this is surely do-able. The very first modems were essentially a speaker and a microphone that were connected to the telephone reciever by a couple of rubber cup-like things.

Re: iceweasel 3 in sid

Mumia W.. wrote: On 06/12/2008 11:06 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: What happens, if there are two Sid partitions, sharing a common home directory. One of the Sid partitions stays at 2.0.0.14-2 and the other upgrades to 3.0~rc2-1. Will the iceweasel 2.0.0.14-2 have problems using a home dir w

Re: Debian on laptop

alfa beta wrote: > After spending hours of reading about the Linux > distributions and compatible hardware, I feel I get crazzy. I chose > you because of your "Social Contract", though I'm not sure Debian is > still updated, apologize, I couldn't find recent articles, I am a > newbye. No, don't w

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

Am 2008-06-12 07:49:00, schrieb Andrew Sackville-West: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:57:58PM +0200, Misko wrote: > > I was trying to find > > some info but failed (perhaps I was looking at wrong places). > > Is there a kernel module available that can turn soundcard into > > modem? > > it wouldn't

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

Am 2008-06-11 14:07:14, schrieb Paul Johnson: > What modem? "Winmodems" aren't modems, they're sound boards with the > wrong audio connector. This is definitivly wrong. A WinModem is a DA/AD-Converter with phone stuff attached. It has NOTHING to do with a soundcard. Also a soundard can not p

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

Am 2008-06-12 17:47:50, schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:21:12 -0500 > Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But they're not cheap: we're talking about an analog modem that does > > V92 protocol. NewEgg has 2: one for $76.99 and one for $244.99 both > > U.S. Robotics. > > Ouc

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

On Friday June 13 2008 02:02:06 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:12:46PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > Actually, using two fingers for the second mouse button is very natural, > > as is dragging around with two fingers as if you were dragging around the > > area you are looki

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-13 17:11, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > David wrote: > >> Every X days or Y reboots, Linux (on my home PC, which I boot & shut >> down 2x each day) wants to scan partitions for errors at startup. >> While this is a bit annoying (can't use

Re: LaCie 2TB 2Big Dual + debian (LaCie SATA II PCI-Express eSATA cards)

Tried LaCie once but not again, no thanks On 12 Jun 2008, at 23:43, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am looking at expanding my disk space on my box. I have turned my eye to these little external boxes. I was wondering has any one else on the list used one of these. I was hoping to connect to it wi

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

David wrote: Hi list. I already checked this problem with Google and with my LUG, and would like to ask on this mailing list before I fire off a bunch of feature requests in the Debian BTS. = FROM MAIL TO MY LUG = I've tried Googling for this but haven't found much info, so asking here

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:25:23AM +0200, David wrote: > Every X days or Y reboots, Linux (on my home PC, which I boot & shut > down 2x each day) wants to scan partitions for errors at startup. > While this is a bit annoying (can't use the PC for 10-20 minutes), I > usually let it finish and read a

Re: Debian on laptop

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 05:54:54AM -0700, alfa beta wrote: > After spending hours of reading about the Linux > distributions and compatible hardware, I feel I get crazzy. I chose you > because of your "Social Contract", though I'm not sure Debian is still > updated, apologize, I couldn't find recen

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 03:07:14PM +1000, Owen Townend wrote: > The list can continue, but I doubt there will be anything on the list > that requires more than the specs of an eepc or several year old > laptop. (though buying new grants you warranty and support). If you > really want to spent mor

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:34:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/12/08 20:45, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] > > > > If Windows isn't a requirement, you could also consider an off-lease > > business Thinkpad. In Kingston, Ontario, at Computer-Depot (a buisness > > class place not a clone of

Re: Bookmarks (Was: iceweasel 3 in sid)

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thanks. How do you keep the same bookmarks and form prompts in two different profiles? Since there's always a chance I might be using someone else's PC when I'm out and about, not to mention that I sometimes switch between two PCs while as work an

Re: sun-java

on the assumption that you are using firefox/iceweasel, yes. To confirm, navigate to the "about:plugins" page and make sure you see itlisted there. You can also try any number of java test sites on the web. I recommend using one hosted by sun itself. - Anooshiravan Merat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: amd64 and sun-java6-jdk

with all due respect, and bearing in mind that I don't use backports, this really looks more like a mistake or transition in the backports packages. Anooshiravan Merat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 05:02:15PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > On 2008-06-13 13:38, David wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Johannes Wiedersich > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> read 'man tune2fs' for some tips for setting interval and mount count to > >> something that better m

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:45:50 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Hugo, > Brad Rogers wrote: > > Acoustic Couplers, they were called. A real PITA to use, too; One > > hard knock, and the line dropped, because the noise produced upset > But it worked. Connected from IBM Chicago

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:22:25 +0200 Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Michelle, > Thats normal, because US-Robotics are realy High-Performance modems > and you can not get better stuff. I am using USR since over 20 > years and the are perfect. :-) Yes, I used USRs myself. Th

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I guess the defaults are very conservative settings regarding > reliability of your data and were implemented at a time when there was > no journalling for data protection. Actually, kernel bugs, memory problems, corruption in the CPU to disk platt

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, John Allen wrote: > Use XFS, and it won't fsck when you boot :) Yeah, instead that stupid idea from SGI [fsck.xfs is a no-op] will require you to boot from another media to do a periodic xfs_repair on / if you want to make sure it is a proper xfs and not some corrupted mess th

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Shutdown/logout not working

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently switched from IceWm to Gnome by installing gnome-core. But I notice the shutdown and logout icons available from the taskbar don't work. I have to logout with ctrl-alt-backspace, and then shutdowm or reboot from GDM. Is there a workaroun

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I guess the defaults are very conservative settings regarding reliability of your data and were implemented at a time when there was no journalling for data protection. Actually, kernel bugs, memory problems, co

Re: popcon mail confusion

Adam Hardy wrote: > popcon has installed itself as a crontab.weekly job which is executed by > user root, I presume, but I get a 'mail delivery failed' turn up in my > user account, not in root. I checked the config for popcon and I can see > how it is picking up my user account. How can it be d

Re: .xsession-errors

Hi Raju, On 6/13/08, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I removed '/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1' and the errors where gone. > > Which errors? Did it get rid of the opcode errors or did it get rid of "bad > font path element" errors? To my surprise I'm back to where I've star

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Hello What is the minimal configuration for httpd.conf required by busybox httpd to run simple CGI scripts ? For this are necessary any special environment exported variables ? When I try to load simple bourne shell scripts, Iceweasel ask me to save them on disk. Command line for busybox is bus

Re: CGI scripts and Busybox

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:03:58 +0300 ccostin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > What is the minimal configuration for httpd.conf required by busybox > httpd to run simple CGI scripts ? > For this are necessary any special environment exported variables ? > > When I try to load simple bourne sh

Re: Shutdown/logout not working

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently switched from IceWm to Gnome by installing gnome-core. But I > notice the shutdown and logout icons available from the taskbar don't > work. I have to logout with ctrl-alt-backspace, and then shutdowm or > reb

Quota - delete Single Entry

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello dudes, After googling for 1 hour i question myself if anybody ever had that problem ( i found one guy in a forum but he didn't get an answer). Adding quota information to the quota table isn't a problem (E.G. quotatool -u 1500 -b -l 1500MB /

Re: Quota - delete Single Entry

On Fri June 13 2008 13:53:37 URNIL FGBEZ wrote: > Hello dudes, > After googling for 1 hour i question myself if anybody ever had that > problem ( i found one guy in a forum but he didn't get an answer). > Adding quota information to the quota table isn't a problem > (E.G. quotatool -u 1500 -b -l 15

Re: Debian on laptop

Hi E.S. I'm using Dell Insiron 500m laptop, it works well with Debian. And I think any popular laptop could work well too. Here is a short list of my hardwares: VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801D

Re: Shutdown/logout not working

I've seen people with the same problem after installing compiz. They had to call metacity before logout. Is there something subtle going there or just the same error popping in different places ? On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 5:53 PM, j t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:51 PM, F

Re: Strange directory in home

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Marcos José Sant'Anna Magalhães < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using Lenny and the same happens here. > > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> Lately,I've

Re: Strange directory in home

Marcos José Sant'Anna Magalhães wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Marcos José Sant'Anna Magalhães <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I am using Lenny and the same happens here. Hi, I am running Testing and I haven't seen this thing happen yet. ->HS -- To

Re: Debian on laptop

I have been using Debian on refurbished Thinkpads for some time now and have had no problems (except that caused by my own ignorance of the operating system). At this time I am on a cable internet connection but I can also use wireless connection when they are available. A friend who is a compute

Re: Shutdown/logout not working

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:53:22 +0100 j t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I recently switched from IceWm to Gnome by installing gnome-core. But > > I notice the shutdown and

Re: Shutdown/logout not working

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:06:44 -0300 Marcos José Sant'Anna Magalhães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've seen people with the same problem after installing compiz. They had > to call metacity before logout. > > Is there something subtle going there or ju

Re: Debian "etch" hardware compability list?

On Thursday 12 June 2008 21:19, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 06:34:36PM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > > I've googled around, but I haven't found a nice, compact source of > > all the info I want. Is there such a thing? > > I haven't seen any list. Since most people who get

Any isencrypted function available?

Is there any 'isencrypted 'function available on Debian which judges whether some data is encrypted or not? Thanks in advance. -- GANBARE! NIPPON! Chance to win 50,000 Yahoo! Points! http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/ganbare-nippon/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Any isencrypted function available?

Is there any 'isencrypted 'function available on Debian which judges whether some data is encrypted or not? Thanks in advance. -- GANBARE! NIPPON! Chance to win 50,000 Yahoo! Points! http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/ganbare-nippon/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 02:32:29PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Your / should be small, fsck-friendly, and resilient as all heck. If > running fsck in your / takes enough time that you wouldn't afford to do it > at every boot (in a recent system), then your / is too large in my book

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 05:30:02PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:45:50 -0500 > Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Hugo, > > > Brad Rogers wrote: > > > Acoustic Couplers, they were called. A real PITA to use, too; One > > > hard knock, and the line dropped,

Re: Samba 3.0 - (smbpasswd) list added users

You could also post the outputs of "ls -l /etc/samba" and "dpkg -s samba-common". Anooshiravan Merat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debugging a java programme

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Re: Converting 3gp to avi

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Re: Any isencrypted function available?

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 09:12:33AM +0900, buyoppy wrote: > Is there any 'isencrypted 'function available on Debian > which judges whether some data is encrypted or not? > Thanks in advance. > Perhaps the file command can tell you for some types, but a file I have here made with openssl aes jus

Re: Quota - delete Single Entry

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Thanks for your answer. There is no possible way that there are still files owned by that user because i use the following way to delete that account: 1. userdel 1500 2. rm -rf /srv/HOMEDIR King Regards Christian Czeczil - That usually mea

Re: Any isencrypted function available?

On Friday 13 June 2008, buyoppy wrote: > Is there any 'isencrypted 'function available on Debian > which judges whether some data is encrypted or not? > Thanks in advance. Considering one byte looks just as much like any other (with only 256 variations), how would anything in an OS or language

Re: Quota - delete Single Entry

On Fri June 13 2008 18:07:47 URNIL FGBEZ wrote: > There is no possible way that there are still files owned by that user > because i use the following way to delete that account: > 1. userdel 1500 > 2. rm -rf /srv/HOMEDIR Please don't top post. What did "find" show you? There may be temp files,

Re: Any isencrypted function available?

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:11:56PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Friday 13 June 2008, buyoppy wrote: > > Is there any 'isencrypted 'function available on Debian > > which judges whether some data is encrypted or not? > > Thanks in advance. > > Considering one byte looks just as much like any ot

Re: iceweasel 3 in sid

On 06/13/2008 10:51 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mumia W.. wrote: [...] BTW, I intend to do something like what you're doing. I want to share a profile between Seamonkey on Debian Etch and Seamonkey on Ubuntu Hardy. My plan is to minimize potential problems by downloading SM from the Mozilla si

Re: Any isencrypted function available?

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 09:12:33AM +0900, buyoppy wrote: > Is there any 'isencrypted 'function available on Debian > which judges whether some data is encrypted or not? > Thanks in advance. Maybe the "file" program from the package of the same name can do the same thing. -- Chris. == "One

Re: Any isencrypted function available?

buyoppy writes: > Is there any 'isencrypted 'function available on Debian which judges > whether some data is encrypted or not? "file" can identify some types of encrypted files. You could also look for high entropy, but that would not distinguish encrypted files from compressed ones. -- John Ha

Re: assigning "best" gateway via DHCP

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Re: debian sid & gnome

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