SSH problem

2009-02-04 Thread Rod James Bio
I've been experiencing problems with my machine. After some time of remotely logging on it via ssh next thing is I knew is that I am disconnected and now I cannot login again via ssh and its giving me: /no matching cipher found/: client server aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128 -cbc,arc

Ruchki s vashim logo

2009-02-04 Thread info
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Re: Scim does not work with openoffice

2009-02-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 22:26:31 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > would you > > > like me to tell you what I did, and what works and what doesn't work now > > on my desktop? > > Please do.  Please if you can report all the settings you did and the > packages you had to install. Note that I was attempti

Re: [exim] Lookups for blacklisted links within messages

2009-02-04 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Apart from the fact mentioned Martin A. Brooks[0], this is no job for a > MTA. Run a script in the stored mail files. > > [0] And the fact that I can't think of an use for this, but it's you who > want to do that anyway Sorry for this message, it was meant for another

Re: Slow Script

2009-02-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:02:52PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > More seriouly, when you are dealing with 32 million records, one major > venue for optimization is to keep disk access to a minimum. Disk access > IIRC is measured in milliseconds, RAM access in nanoseconds and above.. > > Do the math.

Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-02-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm currently running an etch system, soon to be updated to Lenny. I recently installed two identical internal SATA disks and spend a few days bad-block testing them. They passed. They show up as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. As far as I know, these /dev designators are dynamically assigned at boot

Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-02-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 11:23:06AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I'm currently running an etch system, soon to be updated to Lenny. > > I recently installed two identical internal SATA disks and spend a few > days bad-block testing them. They passed. > > They show up as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. >

BerkeleyTIP Feb 7 Sat Global Meeting - Ekiga3, Asterisk, KDE, GPGPU, Debian Edu, GStreamer

2009-02-04 Thread john_re
** Great talks this meeting: (live & on video) ** Ekiga3, Asterisk, GPGPU, GStreamer, Debian Edu, HowTo Present KDE at meetings http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/ Join from anywhere via VOIP conference, with the friendly, educational, productive, BerkeleyTIP people. :) Join the #berkeleyti

Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-02-04 Thread Frederik Kriewitz
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > How can I ensure that the same /dev's are always associated with the same > physical drives? Or am I misunderstanding something here and has the > problem become obsolete? Have a look at the /dev/disk/by-* directories. There you'll find seve

Trying to replace my router with a Debian machine - but I can't understand my existing setup

2009-02-04 Thread Aneurin Price
Hello all, This is only tangentially Debian related, but I can't really think of anywhere better to ask, so maybe somebody can help. I have an ADSL connection set up as follows: D-Link DSL-300G+ modem connected to the ADSL line - well it calls itself a modem, but it connects to the rest of our ne

Re: [OT] google earth 5.0

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue February 3 2009, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > But Google is still your friend: I googled > "/usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8" and got a hit to the solution: another person helped me off-line to get mine working. The key was glxinfo. to run glxinfo you need to install mesa-utils #aptitude in

Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Andre Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira
Hi Phillipus! The Debian offers some tools that implement VPN, like OpenVPN (SSL/TLS) and Openswan (IPsec). 2009/2/4 Phillipus Gunawan : > Hi There, > > I saw a WatchGuard VPN hardware today (http://www.watchguard.com.au/), I > might be naive about this box. > Well, what interested me, this box o

Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Phillipus Gunawan: > Is there any debian package offer such thing like that? A deb linux > VPN server to serve wind0e$ client? OpenVPN is typically used for that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Kemp
> Is there any debian package offer such thing like that? > A deb linux VPN server to serve wind0e$ client? There are several alternatives, perhaps the most widely used is openvpn which you can find documented here: http://www.openvpn.org/ In the future you might save yourself some time

Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed February 4 2009, Hendrik Boom wrote: > How can I ensure that the same /dev's are always associated with the same > physical drives?  Or am I misunderstanding something here and has the > problem become obsolete? /dev/disk/by-uuid/686C-7E81 /media/usb_DAWGS vfat users,atime,rw,nodev,noexec,

Miss. Alice Halim

2009-02-04 Thread Miss. Alice Halim
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[OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Kemp wrote: > In the future you might save yourself some time by > using your favourite search engine "vpn server debian" > has many results. Searching 'debian vpn' (the subject of OP's mail) is just about as good. Maybe it'd save some time,

Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-02-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:03:39 +0100, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Hendrik Boom > wrote: >> How can I ensure that the same /dev's are always associated with the >> same physical drives? Or am I misunderstanding something here and has >> the problem become obsolete? >

Re: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Steve Kemp wrote: >> In the future you might save yourself some time by >> using your favourite search engine "vpn server debian" >> has many results. > > Searching 'debian vpn' (th

Re: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
>> Searching 'debian vpn' (the subject of OP's mail) is just about as good. >> Maybe it'd save some time, if the mailing software sent a google search >> link for the subject matter of all primary posts ;-) >> >> ... or at least for those that generate more than say 1,000,000 hits [1]. Or maybe pe

Re: Music/Audio CDROMs, DVDs, & Etch kernel Security Update.

2009-02-04 Thread D Bray
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 08:44:51PM +0800, D Bray wrote: > The following is a record of a problem we had here with a debian Etch Security > Update that we performed on 26 Aug. 2008. It has now been resolved. > > The culprit seems to have been the > linux-image-2.6.18-5-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch6_i38

Re: where is bind9's named_dump.db

2009-02-04 Thread Ken Teague
Glenn English said the following on 2/3/2009 3:35 PM: > I'm trying to look at the cache of my nameserver, and it keeps saying: > >> Feb 3 15:54:03 log named[20519]: received control channel command 'dumpdb' >> Feb 3 15:54:03 log named[20519]: could not open dump file 'named_dump.db': >> permiss

RE: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Stackpole, Chris
First responding to the OP: I know a few people who pretty much swear by the VPN software in Smoothwall (I know it isn't Debian, but there is free version). There are also several in my Linux User Group who would swear by Untangle. Many of the open source firewall solutions I have seen recently

Re: Software for creating web page

2009-02-04 Thread seeds
On Feb 3, 4:10 am, Kevin Philp wrote: > Tom Ashley wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 08:56 -0800, Cahaya Lilin wrote: > > >> Hello all.. > > >> is there any one know what is a good software for creating web in > >> linux like dreamweaver in windows ?? > > >> Thanx.. > > > I've never used them but >

Re: Slow Script

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Dave Sherohman wrote: > Given that the posted loop is operating entirely on Perl in-memory > arrays, the OP is unlikely to be deliberately[1] accessing the disk > during this process. TBH given the fragment he posted there's no way to help him. There isn't enough there to make any meaningful

Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
Hi There, I saw a WatchGuard VPN hardware today (http://www.watchguard.com.au/), I might be naive about this box. Well, what interested me, this box offer its client to connect to the local network remotely In short, by installing a watchgurad VPN software, a remote computer can virtually conn

Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-02-04 Thread Frederik Kriewitz
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Fun. Lost of symlinks. Can I use these to identify the drives to be used > in RAID pairs or for LLVM? Yes > by-uuid seems to miss one of the SATA drives completely, although it > does list one SATA drive, the IDE drive, and the plugged-in US

Re: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 09:30:00 -0600, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > I just don't see the point in the less-then-helpful comments in this case. I believe I: a. Suggested openvpn as the most likely candidate. b. Offered the suggestion of using a search engine, and apt-cache, which migh

Re: USB disk fails when accessed after idle for some hours

2009-02-04 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:00:13 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/29/2009 10:52 AM, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> All, >> >> I have a USB disk (a 320GB Western Digital My Passport) which is >> exhibiting the following problem. >> >> When first hooked up and mounted, it works fine. I've successfully >>

Lenny target release date 02/14

2009-02-04 Thread Stackpole, Chris
Just saw this post[1] (full post[2]) and thought I would share for those who don't normally look for this information. I know there has been a lot of discussion about it recently on this list. [1] http://times.debian.net/1306 [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/02/msg0.html

Re: Xen problems in Lenny

2009-02-04 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Steve Kemp wrote: On Tue Feb 03, 2009 at 09:57:17 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I know this isn't strictly a Debian issue but this has really got me stumped. I've installed the following Xen packages on a Lenny machine and cannot successfully create a working guest using xen-create-ima

gimp tools frozen

2009-02-04 Thread Richard Lyons
This is odd. Just moved to a new (er) box. Newly installed testing system. Gimp2 is almost unusable as the tools (pen, airbrish, whatever) don't work. It seems to think the cursor is stuck at 0,0. Yet the mouse (usb) works fine for everything else. Another thing: I cannot get the mouse srollwh

RE: Trying to replace my router with a Debian machine - but I can't understand my existing setup

2009-02-04 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: aneurin.pr...@gmail.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: RE: Trying to replace my router with a Debian machine - but >I can't understand my existing setup >Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:03:53 + > >>Hello all, >> >>This is only tangentially Debian r

RE: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Steve Kemp [mailto:s...@debian.org] > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:16 AM > Subject: Re: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN > > On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 09:30:00 -0600, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > > I just don't see the point in the less-then-helpful comments in th

Re: Lenny target release date 02/14

2009-02-04 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Stackpole, Chris wrote: > Just saw this post[1] (full post[2]) and thought I would share for those > who don't normally look for this information. I know there has been a > lot of discussion about it recently on this list. > > [1] http://times.debian.net/1306 > [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-

Laptop

2009-02-04 Thread Finjan, Salam
Hallo, ich will einen Laptop kaufen. Gibt es überhaupt einen Laptop, der einwandfrei ohne Bastelkunst für Debian funktionieren? Gruß Finjan

Re: gimp tools frozen

2009-02-04 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 17:22:19 Richard Lyons wrote: > This is odd. Just moved to a new (er) box. Newly installed testing > system. Gimp2 is almost unusable as the tools (pen, airbrish, whatever) > don't work. It seems to think the cursor is stuck at 0,0. Yet the mouse > (usb) works fine

xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Freddy Freeloader
I have another question on xen. I cannot get xen to create a guest that has read/write access to its own file system. I've been Googling this and reading documentation but so far haven't been able to find anything on this. I have two different systems run xen now. One is 32-bit, the other 6

altering iceweasel print settings

2009-02-04 Thread Richard Lyons
This seems quite out of control now. I have a lenny box with iceweasel 3.0.5 [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008122011 Iceweasel/3.0.5 (Debian-3.0.5-1)] The page setup dialog has no margin settings, only the choice of printer, papersize and orientation. Changing the pap

Re: gimp tools frozen

2009-02-04 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 05:51:27PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2009 17:22:19 Richard Lyons wrote: > > This is odd. Just moved to a new (er) box. Newly installed testing > > system. Gimp2 is almost unusable as the tools (pen, airbrish, whatever) > > don't work. It se

Re: xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 09:10:27 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > [7.149690] ReiserFS: xvda2: warning: bad value "remount-ro" for > option "errors" There's your problem. Remove "remount-ro" from /etc/fstab, after remounting it read/write via: mount -o remount,rw / Or mounting it

Re: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stackpole, Chris wrote: > Don't get me wrong. There are plenty of times when "RTFM!" and > "Google MotherF! Do you use it?" are appropriate responses (like the > question on the Ubuntu forums asking how to use the 'ls' > command...that post was pret

Qualitative Analysis Software

2009-02-04 Thread e s
Crunching data.. Anyone out in there who can recommend Qualitative Analysis Software? Recommendations are appreciated. Very tiny app. would be fantastic, the smaller, the faster, the better. Any experience with this? Need to put on embedded hardware for analysis of sensor data. thanks -e -- To

Re: Laptop

2009-02-04 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:26:49 +0100 "Finjan, Salam" wrote: > Hallo, > ich will einen Laptop kaufen. > > Gibt es überhaupt einen Laptop, der einwandfrei ohne Bastelkunst für > Debian funktionieren? Ja. -- http://frank.uvena.de/en/ pgpCD0z7GGTbw.pgp Description: PGP signature

FFmpeg trouble

2009-02-04 Thread Bogdan
Hey, Can anyone help me with this? : mplayer: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libavcodec.so.51: undefined symbol: ff_gcd Here is some info: ii libavcodec51 0.svn20080206-16 ffmpeg codec library ii libavformat520.svn2008020

Re: SATA disks distinguishable, but missing by-uuid entry.

2009-02-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:02:18 +0100, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Hendrik Boom > wrote: >> Fun. Lost of symlinks. Can I use these to identify the drives to be >> used in RAID pairs or for LLVM? > > Yes > >> by-uuid seems to miss one of the SATA drives completely, a

Re: Laptop

2009-02-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Finjan, Salam wrote: > Hallo, > ich will einen Laptop kaufen. > > Gibt es überhaupt einen Laptop, der einwandfrei ohne Bastelkunst für Debian > funktionieren? Vermutlich mehr als für Windows, sicher mehr als für Mac OS. Dies ist allerdings eine eng

application default

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Cartwright
I installed a new application, and now when I click on an ISO file, that application opens, when I really want K3B to open, or have it ASK me.. I looked in Control center, and Preferences-preferred applications, and they don't seem to be what I want. I know where it is in KDE, but not in gnome..

Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Joe
Florian Weimer wrote: * Phillipus Gunawan: Is there any debian package offer such thing like that? A deb linux VPN server to serve wind0e$ client? OpenVPN is typically used for that. To avoid any small confusion, you would need to use an OpenVPN client on Windows. Windows natively uses the

Re: application default-SOLVED

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed February 4 2009, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I installed a new application, and now when I click on an ISO file, that > application opens, when I really want K3B to open, or have it ASK me.. I > looked in Control center, and Preferences-preferred applications, and they > don't seem to be what I

Choosing which file to download

2009-02-04 Thread Jeremy Weed
Hello, I'm new to debian and would like to give it a try in my computer. I noticed that there are two options for download. CD or DVD? Is one better than the other? My second question is there are a number of difference files to download. Which one would I use download if I'm running an IB

Re: X11 keyboard behaving strangely since update

2009-02-04 Thread B. L. Jilek
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Stefan Bellon wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm happily running Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad > T60 (and on all my other machines as well). > > Yesterday I did an update with the notebook in question (the last > update was early in January). > > Since

RE: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Stackpole, Chris
The reaction I was going for is not the one I was wanting. That tells me that I wrote my response improperly. I apologize; my fault. More to the subject, let me try to explain my view. Please feel free to comment. I subscribe and watch a number of mailing lists/forums. While there has been a nu

Re: Choosing which file to download

2009-02-04 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 1:28:11 pm Jeremy Weed wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to debian and would like to give it a try in my computer.  I > noticed that there are two options for download.  CD or DVD?  Is one better > than the other?  My second question is there are a number of difference > fil

Re: xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Steve Kemp wrote: On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 09:10:27 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: [7.149690] ReiserFS: xvda2: warning: bad value "remount-ro" for option "errors" There's your problem. Remove "remount-ro" from /etc/fstab, after remounting it read/write via: mount -o remou

Re: Choosing which file to download

2009-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/04/2009 12:28 PM, Jeremy Weed wrote: Hello, I’m new to debian and would like to give it a try in my computer. I noticed that there are two options for download. CD or DVD? Is one better than the other? My second question is there are a number of difference files to download. Which

Re: xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 11:10:21 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > OK. That was stupid of me not to look at /etc/fstab. Ignoring the error message was an oversight, but not a stupid one. > But, why are > xen-tools creating a read only domU file system by default in the first > place?

Re: where is bind9's named_dump.db

2009-02-04 Thread Glenn English
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Teague wrote: > I'm guessing that you don't have a /var/cache/bind directory as this is > what your error indicates. Mine has permissions 775 (drwxrwxr-x), owned > by root and group ownership is bind. Nope; it's there. That's where the zone file

Re: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On February 4, 2009 11:06:31 am Stackpole, Chris wrote: > The reaction I was going for is not the one I was wanting. That tells me > that I wrote my response improperly. I apologize; my fault. > > More to the subject, let me try to explain my view. Please feel free to > comment. RTFM has been goin

Re: xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Steve Kemp wrote: On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 11:10:21 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: OK. That was stupid of me not to look at /etc/fstab. Ignoring the error message was an oversight, but not a stupid one. But, why are xen-tools creating a read only domU file system by default i

Re: rereading/reloading keyboard layout files without relogging in?

2009-02-04 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > If I change a key map definition in a file in /etc/X11/xkb directory, is > there is a way I can re-read that file for the new keyboard layout to be > effective without having to relogin? > > I know xrdb can be used to reread .Xdefaults. Hopefully something > similar can b

Re: Choosing which file to download

2009-02-04 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 2:15:46 pm Ron Johnson wrote: > http://live.debian.net/debian-cd/5.0_beta2/i386/iso-cd/ > > I'd go for the debian-live-lenny-i386-gnome-desktop.iso. That link is painfully slow. ~ 5K/s No need for a liveCD if you plan to install. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimag

Re: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Personally, when i'm searching for something, i follow these steps: 1 - do i know what is it that i'm searching? no: wikipedia + search engine (aah.. so that's what a vpn is - just an example) yes: search engine (vpn debian, vpn linux... whatever) Actually even if i know what i'm doing i'll use wik

Re: xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 11:44:47 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > So, you're telling me that if someone uses ext3 they will get a default > file system that's read/write, but if they choose any other available > file system it will be read only by default even though xen-tools.conf > doesn't

Re: FFmpeg trouble

2009-02-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 19:43:48 +0200, Bogdan wrote: > Hey, > > Can anyone help me with this? : > > mplayer: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libavcodec.so.51: > undefined symbol: ff_gcd > > Here is some info: > > ii libavcodec51 0.svn20080206-16 > ii libavutil49 3:0.svn20090119-1 Y

Re: Font customization on gdm's logon screen.

2009-02-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 21:52:23 Chris Jones wrote: > Can anyone point me to a document that explains how/where this is done? > > The gnome desktop config tool works fine in this respect for .. well .. > the desktop.. but for some reason it does not have any effect where gdm > is concerned. Th

Re: rereading/reloading keyboard layout files without relogging in?

2009-02-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 14:45:10 -0500, H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > > > If I change a key map definition in a file in /etc/X11/xkb directory, is > > there is a way I can re-read that file for the new keyboard layout to be > > effective without having to relogin? > > > > I know xrdb c

Printing a web page shrunk to a single page

2009-02-04 Thread Micha Feigin
I want to print a web page (a conference that I want to hang in uni) in one page. I can see it on screen as one page (landscape) but when I want to print it the right side is cut out. zooming the page doesn't seem to help as the width stays the same (cropped) and only the text is smaller. I tried

Re: Choosing which file to download

2009-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/04/2009 01:59 PM, Daryl Styrk wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2009 2:15:46 pm Ron Johnson wrote: http://live.debian.net/debian-cd/5.0_beta2/i386/iso-cd/ I'd go for the debian-live-lenny-i386-gnome-desktop.iso. That link is painfully slow. ~ 5K/s Didn't know that. No need for a live

Re: SATA disks distinguishable, but missing by-uuid entry.

2009-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/04/2009 11:54 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:02:18 +0100, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Fun. Lost of symlinks. Can I use these to identify the drives to be used in RAID pairs or for LLVM? Yes by-uuid seems to miss one of

Re: SATA disks distinguishable, but missing by-uuid entry.

2009-02-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:54:05 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I suppose that will work for the immediate purpose. But having one > primary ext3 partition present in by-uuid and another missing is, to say > the least, disquieting. > I rebooted, and now all the entries are present in /dev/disks.b

mono-vbnc question

2009-02-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
once mono-vbnc is installed on sid, where are vbnc's assemblers and libraries? I managed to get that hello world program compiled and it runs on debian. I'll try it on windows xp later. Now I'd like to learn more so I can do more. The windows version of vb.net is the programming language of

Re: Trying to replace my router with a Debian machine - but I can't understand my existing setup

2009-02-04 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Aneurin Price wrote: Sorry for not answering exactly your question, but at some point it got too long for me. Read about rtlinux. Why do you need this router? I think the modem can provide you more then 1 IP. I think great things are simple, so I would just remove the router, or configure it to

Re: xen domU read only filesystem

2009-02-04 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Steve Kemp wrote: On Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 11:44:47 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: So, you're telling me that if someone uses ext3 they will get a default file system that's read/write, but if they choose any other available file system it will be read only by default even though xen-tools

Re: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
I don't think you're off the mark at all. I was surpised at some of the commentary posted in my recent Exim4 thread. I have been on this particular mailing list nearly a decade and one of its hallmarks has been a lack of RTFM! type posts. When exploring the darker corners of some package, this l

Re: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Nate Bargmann wrote: > I don't think you're off the mark at all. I was surpised at some of > the commentary posted in my recent Exim4 thread. I have been on this > particular mailing list nearly a decade and one of its hallmarks has > been a lack of RTFM! type posts. There has not been a RTFM po

Re: Re: Configuring wlan on Debian Base installation

2009-02-04 Thread Jack
Im not sure if there's a better way to test the connection on port 80, or even if this method will do that, but I tried: wget 192.168.2.1:80 which hung on "Connecting to 192.168.2.1:80..." So I don't think anything is getting through on port 80 either -- Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Printing a web page shrunk to a single page

2009-02-04 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:41:39 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: > I want to print a web page (a conference that I want to hang in uni) in one > page. I can see it on screen as one page (landscape) but when I want to print > it the right side is cut out. zooming the page doesn't seem to help as the > width

Re: Configuring wlan on Debian Base installation

2009-02-04 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 18:24:58 -0600 Jack wrote: > Im not sure if there's a better way to test the connection on port 80, > or even if this method will do that, but I tried: > wget 192.168.2.1:80 > > which hung on "Connecting to 192.168.2.1:80..." > > So I don't think anything is getting through o

Re: Printing a web page shrunk to a single page

2009-02-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:41:39 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: > I want to print a web page (a conference that I want to hang in uni) in one > page. I can see it on screen as one page (landscape) but when I want to print > it the right side is cut out. zooming the page doesn't seem to help as the > width

Re: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:06:31 -0600 "Stackpole, Chris" wrote: > The reaction I was going for is not the one I was wanting. That tells me that > I wrote my response improperly. I apologize; my fault. > > More to the subject, let me try to explain my view. Please feel free to > comment. Please wr

Re: Slow Script

2009-02-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:17:43AM EST, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:02:52PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > More seriouly, when you are dealing with 32 million records, one major > > venue for optimization is to keep disk access to a minimum. Disk access > > IIRC is measured in

Re: Slow Script

2009-02-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:57:04AM EST, Alex Samad wrote: > [silly time] > 32 * 4 = 128 > > so with 128M of memory he could hold 32 Million long int - I realise the > record is probably got more than int's so with 1G of spare ram he could > have 32 bytes per record. Hmm.. 32 bytes records..

Re: Font customization on gdm's logon screen.

2009-02-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 04:19:44PM EST, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 21:52:23 Chris Jones wrote: > > Can anyone point me to a document that explains how/where this is done? > > > > The gnome desktop config tool works fine in this respect for .. well .. > > the desktop

umask problem

2009-02-04 Thread Ding Honghui
Hello list, I encounter a problem and can't finger out why it is: For hostA 1. ssh u...@hosta umask shows 0022 2. ssh r...@hosta umask shows 0022 For hostB 3. ssh u...@hostb umask shows 0077 4. ssh r...@hostb umask shows 0022 md5sum for files /etc/login.defs /etc/pam.d/login /etc/pam.d/ssh /etc/

Re: Laptop

2009-02-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:00:49PM EST, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Finjan, Salam wrote: > > Hallo, > > ich will einen Laptop kaufen. > > > > Gibt es überhaupt einen Laptop, der einwandfrei ohne Bastelkunst für Debian > > funktionieren? > > V

audacious-crossfade

2009-02-04 Thread T o n g
Hi, I am missing the audacious-crossfade plugin, after switching over from xmms. From the inet search I have an impression that audacious-crossfade has been a normal Debian package. But it no longer exist from the official site. Does it ever exist? What happened to it? Why Debian doesn't hav

Re: Printing a web page shrunk to a single page

2009-02-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:47:05 + Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > (I actually mostly want to export it to pdf so either option will work) > So why don't you? Firefox enables you to print to file, choose pdf. > I'm not sure if there's an option to flip the page to landscape, but > maybe your prdf-viewer

Re: Slow Script

2009-02-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:45:35PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:57:04AM EST, Alex Samad wrote: > > > [silly time] > > > 32 * 4 = 128 > > > > so with 128M of memory he could hold 32 Million long int - I realise the > > record is probably got more than int's so with 1G

Re: Slow Script

2009-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/04/2009 08:04 PM, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:45:35PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:57:04AM EST, Alex Samad wrote: [silly time] 32 * 4 = 128 so with 128M of memory he could hold 32 Million long int - I realise the record is probably got more th

Re: umask problem

2009-02-04 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Ding Honghui wrote: > Hello list, > > I encounter a problem and can't finger out why it is: > > For hostA > 1. ssh u...@hosta umask shows 0022 > 2. ssh r...@hosta umask shows 0022 > For hostB > 3. ssh u...@hostb umask shows 0077 > 4. ssh r...@hostb umask shows 0022 > > md5sum f

Re: umask problem

2009-02-04 Thread Ding Honghui
Hello Jeff, Bash will not read the profile when in notty mode. The /etc/profile and .bash_profile both set the umask to 022, so after login, the hostA and hostB any user have same umask. The problem occurs in notty mode. Regards, Ding Honghui Jeff D wrote: > On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Ding Honghui wrot

/dev/sda16 (140GB)

2009-02-04 Thread magdi
Hello, I'm facing a problem to mount ext3 partition 140GB under debian etch- and-a-half kernel 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP linuxbox:/dev# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier:

Re: /dev/sda16 (140GB)

2009-02-04 Thread Ding Honghui
magdi wrote: > Hello, > > I'm facing a problem to mount ext3 partition 140GB under debian etch- > and-a-half kernel 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP > > linuxbox:/dev# fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512

Re: Re: Configuring wlan on Debian Base installation

2009-02-04 Thread Jack
As it would happen, the computer I'm currently using to write this email (along with several others in our house) are successfully connected to the router, though none others are running Linux. I think I may have to try a different wireless adapter... thanks for the help anyways though -- Jack

Re: Configuring wlan on Debian Base installation

2009-02-04 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:29:12 -0600 Jack wrote: > As it would happen, the computer I'm currently using to write this > email (along with several others in our house) are successfully > connected to the router, though none others are running Linux. > I think I may have to try a different wireless ad

Sane uninstallable

2009-02-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
This does NOT seem to be a bug. It is a problem ON MY box. I recently upgraded from Etch to Lenny so that I could get Firefox3 without going through all of the library hoops. I have had a number of problems, most of which I have resolved. (Getting X working properly was, indeed, a case of g

Re: hfs: write access to a journaled filesystem is not supported, use the force option at your own risk, mounting read-only.

2009-02-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 08:41:02PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:21:36PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Goal: Trying to use rythmbox with my "Apple" iPod (hfsplus) > > > > I am reading this: > > http://blog.raamdev.com/2008/11/23/mounting-hfs-with-write-access-in-debian

Re: rereading/reloading keyboard layout files without relogging in?

2009-02-04 Thread H.S.
Florian Kulzer wrote: > > I don't understand which file(s) you want to modify and in what way. The > only file that I have in /etc/X11/xkb is called "base.xml"; it does not > contain any keymap definitions, only an XML list of known names. I have some files in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/. If I recall c

Re: Sane uninstallable

2009-02-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: This does NOT seem to be a bug. It is a problem ON MY box. I recently upgraded from Etch to Lenny so that I could get Firefox3 without going through all of the library hoops. I have had a number of problems, most of which I have resolved. (Getting X working properly was

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