Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:43:33 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:58:41PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:33:00 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:22:00AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:35:10PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 21:28:50 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > This can easily be done with a Xen guest. Not possible, from what I can > > tell, with a OpenVZ host. s/OpenVZ host/OpenVZ guest/ naturally. > > Also OpenVZ can be

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Sam Leon wrote: > Does the hard drive have to spin up in order to flush a buffer or > something before shut down? Any way to get around this? Unmount the volume when not in use. Unmounted volumes do not need to spin up during shutdown. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
Paul Johnson wrote: > A good way to needlessly complicate your audio setup especially if > everything is working fine using the traditional ALSA approach. > Pulseaudio also breaks voice and sometimes all sound support in Second > Life despite claiming ESD compatibility. Pulse is not without major

Re: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket)

2008-10-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-14 15:04 +0200, Paul Cartwright wrote: > my /var/log/Xorg.21.log is huge, I just noticed it looking for something > ELSE.. > lots,lots, LOTS of lines like this: > > (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused) This looks strange. Quoting the acpid manpage:

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

2008-10-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 01:18:25AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 10/13/2008 11:30 PM, Carl Fink wrote: >> [...] >> This sounded really promising. I was going to try it. >> >> But now the stupid computer won't boot past "setting the system clock" in >> Linux. Still works fine in Windows. >> >> Time

how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
Hello, I am tying to see which mail server to install so that I can send emails via scripts using Gmail (preferable) or Yahoo smtp servers. I haven't setup email servers yet. Which one I go for (on Debian and Ubuntu)? Exim4, postfix, or perhaps msmtp? The last one I learned from here: http://phos

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Finally unpacking after my move and I came across some old games I'd > like to play. I had them when my IBM ValuePoint 486 was screaming HOT. > > Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, run Debian Etch amd64 with > the nVid

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I am tying to see which mail server to install so that I can send emails > via scripts using Gmail (preferable) or Yahoo smtp servers. > > I haven't setup email servers yet. Which one I go for (on Debian and > Ubuntu)? Exim4, postfix, or perhaps msmtp? The last one I learne

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:12:40PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > I am tying to see which mail server to install so that I can send emails > via scripts using Gmail (preferable) or Yahoo smtp servers. > > I haven't setup email servers yet. Which one I go for (on Debian and > Ubuntu)? Exim4, postfix, or perh

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread elijah rutschman
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Finally unpacking after my move and I came across some old games I'd > like to play. I had them when my IBM ValuePoint 486 was screaming HOT. > > Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, run Debian Etch amd64 with

Re: New Disk: On to LVM?

2008-10-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 23:26 +0200, Johannes wrote: > On 2008-10-14 22:01, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Google lvm tldp for the howto. > > or just: > > # aptitude install doc-linux-html > > $ iceweasel /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/LVM-HOWTO/index.html & > > > Johannes > > Funny, never knew tha

old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Finally unpacking after my move and I came across some old games I'd like to play. I had them when my IBM ValuePoint 486 was screaming HOT. Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, run Debian Etch amd64 with the nVidia driver in icewm. I have the dos 6.3 set of 5 floppies and the Windows 3.

Re: Warning before running update-grub (was: Filing bug reports in Debian)

2008-10-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Hal Vaughan wrote: > Instead of just calling > update-grub, a script could have said, "This update will > re-write /boot/grub/menu.lst. Press return to continue." That would > have been enough (although giving a choice of continuing or not would > have been nice, too). > [...] > I see the po

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > exim and postfix are overkill if you just want to send mails to a > smarthost. msmtp could do the job; another option is esmtp. > > Thanks. Should I prefer on of these over the other? -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding n

Re: Warning before running update-grub (was: Filing bug reports in Debian)

2008-10-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > Instead of just calling > > update-grub, a script could have said, "This update will > > re-write /boot/grub/menu.lst. Press return to continue." That > > would have been enough (although giving a choice of continuin

Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:43:33AM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:58:41PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > Keep replies to the list. > > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:33:00 -0400 > > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:22:00AM -0500,

Re: what linux/limit.h is needed for backporting cups from lenny to etch?

2008-10-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:09:56PM +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: > > Install the source for the kernel in use and see if the problem still > appears. It's still there. -- Linux amin 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i586 GNU/Linux Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:50:15PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:43:33 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:58:41PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:33:00 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
H.S. wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >> exim and postfix are overkill if you just want to send mails to a >> smarthost. msmtp could do the job; another option is esmtp > > Thanks. > > Should I prefer on of these over the other I've never used msmtp, so I cannot really talk about it, but

[OT] Unrecognized mount option "uid=1000" error w/TrueCrypt 6.0a on Ubuntu 8.04.1 server x64

2008-10-14 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, [Preamble] I've marked this post as off-topic because it's about Ubuntu, not Debian. I have already posted this message to the Ubuntu-users mailing list, but my impression is that people on the Debian-users mailing list tend, on average, to have a greater general knowledge of Linux than

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 03:08:17PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > For instance, stating it in the file: Again, not everyone has time to > read all the comments in all the files. As to unrealistic > expectations, what would be so hard with using a bash script specifying > the rewrite was going to

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, run Debian Etch amd64 with > > the nVidia driver in icewm. > > > > I have the dos 6.3 set of 5 floppies and the Windo

create folders in data drive

2008-10-14 Thread John Lindsay
I have a debian (I believe it is lenny) system running and somehow managed to install a second drive (called /new-disk) where owner and group are root. As user I can open the drive up and add and delete files but can't create folders (create folders is greyed out when '/new-disk' icon is opene

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Ignacio Mondino
Hi On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:20:01PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > wine started its life as a windows 3.11 emulator (or non-emulatr, > > whatever). > > Not in amd64. > > > There's also dosemu. > > Not in amd64. Both wine and dosemu are available in amd64, at least in lenny and sid. Ch

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread paragasu
> Not necessarily. I would start off with a 64MB or 128MB and load test it. If > it suits your > needs, why pay more? it is necessary. Standard installation of apache + mysql + debian + postfix etch consume memory more than 128MB (maybe you can do tweaking) on my VPS server it takes 180MB+ by onl

About apt-file

2008-10-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Etch Reading man apt-file I can't resolve what flag to be up to find a package which provides a named tool/command. e.g. mysqladmin coming form mysql-server Or any other packages will be more suitable for this job? TIA B.R. Stephen L Send instant messages to your online friend

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:38:11PM -0700, paragasu wrote: > well, i prefer XEN because that is the best virtualization to date. > Amazon EC2 and gogrid use XEN. and XEN cannot be oversold. What makes it "best" for you as a guest? Xen CPU time can be oversold. And anyway, I would also care about

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/10/15 paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Not necessarily. I would start off with a 64MB or 128MB and load test it. If >> it suits your >> needs, why pay more? > it is necessary. Standard installation of apache + mysql + debian + > postfix etch consume memory more than 128MB (maybe you can do >

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/08 17:21, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: H.S. wrote: Hello, I am tying to see which mail server to install so that I can send emails via scripts using Gmail (preferable) or Yahoo smtp servers. I haven't setup email servers yet. Which one I go for (on Debian and Ubuntu)? Exim4, postfix, o

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:00 AM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Is anybody using pulseaudio in Debian? I am interested to know what is > its status in Debian Sid and Lenny. If somebody has been successful in > installing and running it, could you share your experience. > > By the way,

[SOLVED] Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:41:48PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >hello all, > > > >I use Iceweasel with icewm (no DTE). I've temporarily switched from my > >21" monitor to a very small one and the fonts on e.g. the toolbars in > >iceweasel are too big. For Konqueror I fo

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >>> exim and postfix are overkill if you just want to send mails to a >>> smarthost. msmtp could do the job; another option is esmtp. >> But then you can't receive local (intra-system) mail. > > > Interesting. Couldn't I have both, exim4 and msmtp? I ask because I

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> exim and postfix are overkill if you just want to send mails to a >> smarthost. msmtp could do the job; another option is esmtp. > > But then you can't receive local (intra-system) mail. Interesting. Couldn't I have both, exim4 and msmtp? I ask because I am trying out ms

[SOLVED] Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: exim and postfix are overkill if you just want to send mails to a smarthost. msmtp could do the job; another option is esmtp. >>> But then you can't receive local (intra-system) mail. >> >> Interesting. Couldn't I have both, exim4 and msmtp?

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> >>> Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, run Debian Etch amd64 with >>> the nVidia driver in icewm. >>> >>> I have the

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
H.S. wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> A good way to needlessly complicate your audio setup especially if >> everything is working fine using the traditional ALSA approach. >> Pulseaudio also breaks voice and sometimes all sound support in Second >> Life despite claiming ESD compatibility. Puls

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-14 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > > Etch > > > Reading man apt-file I can't resolve what flag to be up to find a > package which provides a named tool/command. > > e.g. mysqladmin coming form mysql-server apt-file search mysqladmin apt-file search `which commandname` but that might not be

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, run

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
Paul Johnson wrote: >> > Right up until it doesn't. And when it doesn't, it's a severe pain to fix. I noticed that in FC9, the sound was working quite smoothly even when the processor was quite busy (updating and installing stuff using yum). This was a surprise to me. With as busy processor i

64 bit kernel, 32-bit userland (was Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64)

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/08 22:37, Rich Healey wrote: [snip] I'd disagree. 32bit + 64bit kernel is always a good idea, and 64 bit How do you do that? Just install the amd64 kernel and reboot? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in troubl

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > 5. Cheap, ideally in the $10-15/mo range. This will be the hardest part. Most in the $10-$15 range won't have enough RAM to do the things you want or disc space that you desire. $20/month is a closer price point. Personally I've gotten VMs from tektonik.com(?)/

Re: 64 bit kernel, 32-bit userland (was Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64)

2008-10-14 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/14/08 22:37, Rich Healey wrote: > [snip] >> I'd disagree. 32bit + 64bit kernel is always a good idea, and 64 bit > > How do you do that? Just install the amd64 kernel and reboot? > Yup :) Very simple, addresses a lot of p

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/08 21:15, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: exim and postfix are overkill if you just want to send mails to a smarthost. msmtp could do the job; another option is esmtp. But then you can't receive local (intra-system) mail. Interesting. Couldn't I have both, exim4 and msmtp? I ask beca

Re:[OT] Old Boxen [WAS] old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:37:11PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 23:15 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/14/08 21:15, H.S. wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> exim and postfix are overkill if you just want to send mails to a > >>> smarthost. msmtp could do the job; another option is esmtp. > >> But then you can't receive local (intra-system

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:37:11PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>> > Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+

Re: 64 bit kernel, 32-bit userland (was Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64)

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/08 23:14, Rich Healey wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/14/08 22:37, Rich Healey wrote: [snip] I'd disagree. 32bit + 64bit kernel is always a good idea, and 64 bit How do you do that? Just install the amd64 kernel and reboot? Yup :) Very simple, addresses a lot of problems. In produ

Re: 64 bit kernel, 32-bit userland (was Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64)

2008-10-14 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/14/08 23:14, Rich Healey wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 10/14/08 22:37, Rich Healey wrote: >>> [snip] I'd disagree. 32bit + 64bit kernel is always a good idea, and 64 bit >>> How do you do that? Just install the am

Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-14 Thread T o n g
Hi, I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, because previously, /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb can returns my printer info, now it is empty. How should I fix it? thanks PS. my cups: $ dpkg -l *cups

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15.10.08 03:22]: > > But then you can't receive local (intra-system) mail. > Well, you can't receive mails on the system, but you can receive all system mails, because they are sent via msmtp to your smarthost. On a Desktop system you normally do not need local

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Denvid Wright
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 03:08:17PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > For instance, stating it in the file: Again, not everyone has time > > to read all the comments in all the files. As to unrealistic > > expectations, what would be so hard with us

MYSQL PATCHES FOR ETCH

2008-10-14 Thread Krishna Chandra Prajapati
Hi, I am using mysql-server-5.0.32 on debian (etch). I would like to know from where i can get patches for mysql and how to install the mysql pathces on debian. Thanks, -- Krishna Chandra Prajapati MySQL DBA, Mob: 9912924044 Email-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MYSQL PATCHES FOR ETCH

2008-10-14 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:32:10 +0530 "Krishna Chandra Prajapati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using mysql-server-5.0.32 on debian (etch). I would like to > know from where i can get patches for mysql and how to install the > mysql pathces on debian. > > Thanks, > -- > Krishna Chand

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/15/08 00:55, Sebastian Günther wrote: * Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15.10.08 03:22]: But then you can't receive local (intra-system) mail. Well, you can't receive mails on the system, but you can receive all system mails, because they are sent via msmtp to your smarthost. On a Des

Re: Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/15/08 00:22, T o n g wrote: Hi, I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, because previously, /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb can returns my printer info, now it is empty. How should I fix it?

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
Apologies for any confusion. While making changes to my LAN, I had some downed systems and used a friend's laptop while he was here. I should have either waited or sent it later. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

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