On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 01:56:33AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-08-02 01:29, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 01:29:56PM +0200, Dirk wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> i would like to start a thread where everyone posts his solution for
>>> removing HAL or says why "nanny-features" like
On Sat,01.Aug.09, 21:56:46, Rob Owens wrote:
> What's the proper setting to get good line breaks in Mutt (using vim),
> without manually hitting the enter key? (So that this paragraph, for
> instance, is not one long line of text, but rather several shorter lines of
> text).
>
> I currently have
Javier Barroso wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Bruce Ward wrote:
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 07:35 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 16:49 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote:
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 12:18 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21
On 2009-08-02 02:25, Alex Samad wrote:
[snip]
Luxury, punch cards and line printers :)
All joking aside, I do still pine for green bar and line printers.
It made my programming much more efficient...
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On 2009-08-02 03:34, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Du,02.aug.09, 02:51:58, Ron Johnson wrote:
Yes. But I've been disappointed in the past by Xfce's lack of
"integration" (that's not exactly the proper word, but it's as good
as I can think of). What I mean in that what I do use of GNOME
"just work
On Sb,01.aug.09, 19:27:49, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> >The proposed solution involves the script[1]:
> >
> >,[ external-reply.sh ]
> >| #!/bin/sh
> >| DRAFT="$1"
> >| cp "$DRAFT" "$DRAFT.tmp"
> >| (
> >| xterm -e "exec mutt -H \"$DRAFT.tmp\""
> >| sleep 1
> >| rm -f "$DRAFT.tmp"
> >|
Neal Hogan wrote:
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:37 PM, AG wrote:
Hi all
I'm happy to follow up with the relevant reading, but I want some help in
defining the question so that I know what it is that I am looking at:
I have an old laptop that runs Slackware 10.1 and its CD-R is kaput, and
Slackwa
Hi,
I bought an external disk (1 BT) and I am only connecting it to a
Debian box, not window. Is it a good idea to re-fomat it by ext3? Has
anyone done it? What is the procedure and commands to do it? Anything
I should be aware of not demage it?
Thank you.
Kind Regards,
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On 2009-08-02 04:05, hce wrote:
Hi,
I bought an external disk (1 BT) and I am only connecting it to a
Debian box, not window. Is it a good idea to re-fomat it by ext3?
Sure, unless you have an urge to use vfat or ntfs-3g.
Presuming, of course that it's already formatted. In which case
it's
udev: deprecated sysfs layout; update the kernel or disable
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED; some udev features will not work correctly . The
interesting thing about this message on boot up on my system is that it
isn't being caught by dmesg. That is when I do dmesg >dmesg.log and
examine the log file
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Hi list,
I'm running lenny i386.
Having changed my dsl provider, I now use wpa to authenticate to my dsl
modem/router. It turns out that wicd (or any connection) will only work for the
kernel
$ uname -a
Linux e13-v21 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Jul 26
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hce wrote:
> I bought an external disk (1 BT) and I am only connecting it to a
> Debian box, not window. Is it a good idea to re-fomat it by ext3?
Yes. I consider ext3 to be more reliable than the vfat or ntfs that are
typically used for preformated
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Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-08-02 04:05, hce wrote:
>> I bought an external disk (1 BT) and I am only connecting it to a
>> Debian box, not window. Is it a good idea to re-fomat it by ext3?
[...]
> Turn it on, plug it in and treat it like you'd treat
from -release)
Quoting gene (gene3...@verizon.net):
> Hi:
>
> I have tried Debian 5.0.1 and I liked it. However, I was disappointed
> in that it doesn't seem to have any wireless configuration capability.
> It only automatically configures a network cable card.
>
> This capability is import
Does anyone know where these are documented? Apparently a2ps needs at
least one of these to go further than an error statement:
Script started on Sun 02 Aug 2009 06:06:38 AM EDT
j...@localhost:~$ cat print
#!/bin/bash
# file: print - script to print to dot matrix printer
a2ps -1m -Eplain -B --bo
On Sun,02.Aug.09, 03:45:58, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> >My Xfce setup would be very familiar for a Windows 2k user ;)
>
> Can you send me (or throw onto a website) a screen-print?
Sure
http://yetanotherpersonal.blogspot.com/2009/08/screenshot-with-my-desktop.html
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On Sun,02.Aug.09, 12:14:10, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm running lenny i386.
>
> Having changed my dsl provider, I now use wpa to authenticate to my
> dsl modem/router. It turns out that wicd (or any connection) will only
> work for the kernel
> $ uname -a
> Linux e13-v21 2.6.2
On 2009-08-02 13:04 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sun,02.Aug.09, 12:14:10, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I'm running lenny i386.
>>
>> Having changed my dsl provider, I now use wpa to authenticate to my
>> dsl modem/router. It turns out that wicd (or any connection) will only
hce> Hi, I bought an external disk (1 BT) and I am only connecting it
hce> to a Debian box, not window. Is it a good idea to re-fomat it by
hce> ext3? Has anyone done it? What is the procedure and commands to do
hce> it? Anything I should be aware of not demage it?
If you bought a new HDD, it
Thanks Johannes and all responses. That's great help.
Cheers.
Jupiter
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Johannes
Wiedersich wrote:
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> hce wrote:
>> I bought an external disk (1 BT) and I am only connecting it to a
>> Debian box, not window. Is it
On Sunday 02 August 2009 11:15:17 Jude DaShiell wrote:
> udev: deprecated sysfs layout; update the kernel or disable
> CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED; some udev features will not work correctly .
> The interesting thing about this message on boot up on my system is
> that it isn't being caught by dmesg.
Il giorno sab, 01/08/2009 alle 13.21 -0400, Rick Thomas ha scritto:
> On Aug 1, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Leonardo Gaudino wrote:
>
> > I experience the same problem (only difference is nautilus:3645,
> > whatever it means...). A pop-up message appears while loading the
> > session showing that phras
* Osamu Aoki [2009 Aug 02 01:46 -0500]:
> On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 01:29:56PM +0200, Dirk wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > i would like to start a thread where everyone posts his solution for
> > removing HAL or says why "nanny-features" like HAL shouldn't be enforced
> > in Linux.
> >
> >
> > Disable
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Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-08-02 13:04 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> On Sun,02.Aug.09, 12:14:10, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>>> Wireless used to work with both kernels, when I used wep instead of wap.
>> I seem to recall this being one of the pro
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:00:44AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2009-08-01 12:33 +0200, Bret Busby wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, in today reconsidering upgrading to Debian 5.0, and, reading
>>> the information on the Debian web site, and, in checking using
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:32:14AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat,01.Aug.09, 21:56:46, Rob Owens wrote:
> > What's the proper setting to get good line breaks in Mutt (using vim),
> > without manually hitting the enter key? (So that this paragraph, for
> > instance, is not one long line of
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 09:20:57PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-07-28 21:12, Rob Owens wrote:
>> I've replaced the Iceweasel flash plugin on some of my systems with mplayer
>> by using the Greasemonkey extension with the following script:
>>
>> http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24999
>>
>>
Eugene Apolinary wrote:
> I want to make an sftp server
>
> - Only an sftp server
> - Some users may log in by ssh (with openssh-server), some users can only
> use sftp - Important! - Chroot! Users using sftp must only see e.g.: their
> home directory, or better: a folder in it. - Under Debian
> Luxury, punch cards and line printers :)
>
Kids and their toys. In my day, we had rocks, both ways uphill, and we
liked it that way:
http://xkcd.com/505/
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Hi everybody,
I use xen for visualization on my computer. Now I want to make a
pass-through of my second graphic-card to a guest so it can use it like
his own. But now the big question. Is the 2.6.26-1-xen-686 Kernel image
ready for passing devices to virtual machine?
I just try to add /pciba
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 07:24 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * Osamu Aoki [2009 Aug 02 01:46 -0500]:
> > If you push such thought, ... Why even have X ... we can edit
> > everything by ed command. No vi(m), no emacs, and few essential
> > packages only will get to use Debian.
Did this, I ev
* Andrei Popescu (andreimpope...@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Sat,01.Aug.09, 21:56:46, Rob Owens wrote:
> > What's the proper setting to get good line breaks in Mutt (using vim),
> > without manually hitting the enter key? (So that this paragraph, for
> > instance, is not one long line of text, but rath
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:08:10 +0200
Siggy Brentrup wrote:
*** Snip*
> > Perhaps a BSD would be more to his liking.
>
> Were we talking about Linux or about unixoid OSes?
The point he's making is simply that the BSD's might be a better way to
go.
having been a BSD'er I can relate to the comment
Hi,
Has anybody used mondoarchive with the latest 2.6.30 Debian kernel?
For me it fails with that he cannot figure out the filesystem that is
used for initrd.
Hugo
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Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> Yes, even if it means to back out X's dependency on the almost dead
> HAL. I'm not yet fully decided, but I might even be inclined to help
> him forking a more back to the roots Debian (without bash essential).
FWIW, removing
Greetings,
(I think there has already been some discussion on this, but I want to
make sure...)
Reading section 4.8 of the Lenny Release Notes it talks about a problem
where "System boot hangs on Waiting for root file system",
where the naming convention has changed from /dev/hda to /dev/sda
and
On 2009-08-02 16:55 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Siggy Brentrup wrote:
>> Yes, even if it means to back out X's dependency on the almost dead
>> HAL. I'm not yet fully decided, but I might even be inclined to help
>> him forking a more back to the roots Debian (without bash essential).
>
>
hello again list, im not quite confident in my understanding of
./configure ./make ./make install so i still use the debian add/remove
applications from the system>administration menu. trouble is for some
reason or another it is constantly asking for Debian 5.0.2 amd64
Bin-1.
so, what can i instal
jeremy jozwik wrote:
hello again list, im not quite confident in my understanding of
./configure ./make ./make install so i still use the debian add/remove
applications from the system>administration menu. trouble is for some
reason or another it is constantly asking for Debian 5.0.2 amd64
Bin-1.
jeremy jozwik wrote:
hello again list, im not quite confident in my understanding of
./configure ./make ./make install so i still use the debian add/remove
applications from the system>administration menu. trouble is for some
reason or another it is constantly asking for Debian 5.0.2 amd64
Bin-1.
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Aioanei Rares wrote:
> Sorry, replace emacs with $editor-of-choice. :)
>
[sucking at email version]
i was about to ask what the difference is between emacs [command not
found] and nano, guess now i know!
thanks for that super easy tweak, im sad to report that i hav
jeremy jozwik wrote:
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Aioanei Rares wrote:
Sorry, replace emacs with $editor-of-choice. :)
[sucking at email version]
i was about to ask what the difference is between emacs [command not
found] and nano, guess now i know!
thanks for that super easy twea
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:28 -0500, Chris wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:08:10 +0200
> Siggy Brentrup wrote:
>
> *** Snip*
>
> > > Perhaps a BSD would be more to his liking.
> >
> > Were we talking about Linux or about unixoid OSes?
>
> The point he's making is simply that the BSD's might be
* Siggy Brentrup [2009 Aug 02 11:15 -0500]:
> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:28 -0500, Chris wrote:
> > On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:08:10 +0200
> > Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> >
> > *** Snip*
> >
> > > > Perhaps a BSD would be more to his liking.
> > >
> > > Were we talking about Linux or about unixoid OSe
Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-08-02 16:55 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> FWIW, removing bash from the list of essential packages (replacing it by
>> dash) is one of the release goals for squeeze [1].
>
> Not really, the goal for squeeze is to install dash as /bin/sh by
> default. Making bas
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 16:55 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> > Yes, even if it means to back out X's dependency on the almost dead
> > HAL. I'm not yet fully decided, but I might even be inclined to help
> > him forking a more back to the roots Debian (without bash ess
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Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2009-08-02 13:04 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>>> On Sun,02.Aug.09, 12:14:10, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>
Wireless used to work with both kernels, when I used wep instead of wap.
>>> I seem
On Mon,03.Aug.09, 01:15:12, Frank Charles Gallacher wrote:
> The question I want to know is; if my menu.lst is:
>
> # kopt=root=/dev/sda2 ro
>
> and my fstab entry for root is:
>
> /dev/sda2 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
>
> Then I probably don't need to worry about t
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 18:30 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Sven Joachim wrote:
> > This will take at least one more release cycle, more likely two, if it
> > is ever accomplished. It is very hard to remove functionality from the
> > set of essential packages.
>
> So probably still better t
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 16:46 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Luxury, punch cards and line printers :)
> >
>
> Kids and their toys. In my day, we had rocks, both ways uphill, and we
> liked it that way:
> http://xkcd.com/505/
*lol* Thanks for this one, Dotan, it made my day :)
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On 2009-08-02 05:59, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun,02.Aug.09, 03:45:58, Ron Johnson wrote:
My Xfce setup would be very familiar for a Windows 2k user ;)
Can you send me (or throw onto a website) a screen-print?
Sure
http://yetanotherpersonal.blogspot.com/2009/08/screenshot-with-my-desktop.htm
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On 4 Jul 2009, at 19:27, Andy Davidson wrote:
If I run ifconfig eth0 down && sleep 2 && ifup eth0 and then
restart xend, the network bridge works fine, and ipv6 is started.
Any clues ?
Hi, --
I have more on this now. It happens without
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Andrei Popescu
> wrote:
> > P.S. No need to CC me, I'm subscribed
On 03.07.09 10:07, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> If I hit 'reply' only your email shows up, so I definitely need to hit
> 'reply all'. This should not be a problem as gmail is merging both
> -identica
I run Debian Lenny om my iMac PPC and to emulate a three button mouse I
set up the following code in sysctl.conf file:
dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation = 1
dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode = 87
dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode = 88
for the F11 function key to emulate the middle button,and F1
Hallo Mensen,
Ik heb op een server Debian + lenny draaien. Op deze server draait een ftp
programma.
Nu zou ik graag willen weten hoe ik het ww kan wijzigen voor de toegang van FTP.
Ik kom er namelijk niet uit. Misschien dat jullie een tip voor me hebben.
Met vriendelijke groet,
H
* Siggy Brentrup [2009 Aug 02 11:54 -0500]:
> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 18:30 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> > Sven Joachim wrote:
> > > This will take at least one more release cycle, more likely two, if it
> > > is ever accomplished. It is very hard to remove functionality from the
> > > set
Hello
I have a Lenny amd64 Laptop; i have tested many server/feeder packages
(icecast, vlc, ffmpeg, ezstream, webcam-server, camorama, cheese,
peercast, geekcast, etc.) to transmit a conference on the internet to
aproximatelly 150 clients.
Does someone have done it?
Problems:
icecast can not con
Hi All,
I'll soon be able to spec. a new laptop for my new job. Can anyone
recommend any systems that can run the latest Debian
and support all the hardware out of the box? I prefer IBM and Dell
laptops myself.
It would be great to hear from anyone who's got a perfectly working machine.
Thanks,
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:34 PM, fred basset wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'll soon be able to spec. a new laptop for my new job. Can anyone
> recommend any systems that can run the latest Debian
> and support all the hardware out of the box? I prefer IBM and Dell
> laptops myself.
> It would be great to
ATB 4Y wrote:
Hallo Mensen,
Ik heb op een server Debian + lenny draaien. Op deze server draait een ftp
programma.
Nu zou ik graag willen weten hoe ik het ww kan wijzigen voor de toegang van FTP.
Ik kom er namelijk niet uit. Misschien dat jullie een tip voor me hebben.
Met vriendelijke gr
On 2009-08-02 12:21, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-08-02 05:59, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun,02.Aug.09, 03:45:58, Ron Johnson wrote:
My Xfce setup would be very familiar for a Windows 2k user ;)
Can you send me (or throw onto a website) a screen-print?
Sure
http://yetanotherpersonal.blogspot.c
When I receive text mail, or try to compose mail in text mode instead of
html mode, some key combinations appear to add a tab between the
characters. For example, the word "subscribe" will display as:
subscr ibe
This is happening in Evolution and Squirrel mail (the only 2 I've tried)
re
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> for i in *.jpg; \
>>> do \
>>> bn=$(basename "${i}" .jpg) \
>>> echo "${bn}" \
>>> done
>>>
>>> Replace the echo statement with appropriate exiftool command.
./exif.sh: line 7: syntax error: unexpected end of file
ok, im getting frustrate
On 2009-08-02 22:17, glen...@life-in-christ.holiness.ch wrote:
When I receive text mail, or try to compose mail in text mode instead of
html mode, some key combinations appear to add a tab between the
characters. For example, the word "subscribe" will display as:
subscr ibe
Is this a
On 2009-08-02 23:36, jeremy jozwik wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
for i in *.jpg; \
do \
bn=$(basename "${i}" .jpg) \
echo "${bn}" \
done
Replace the echo statement with appropriate exiftool command.
./exif.sh: line 7: syntax error: unexpected end of file
ok, i
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> My bad for adding the continuation characters. This definitely works:
alright, it no longer errors out.
will this be able to bridge across the /photo/raw, /photo/fresh folders?
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On 2009-08-03 01:08, jeremy jozwik wrote:
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
My bad for adding the continuation characters. This definitely works:
alright, it no longer errors out.
will this be able to bridge across the /photo/raw, /photo/fresh folders?
Sure. For example,
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Sure. For example, let's say that you've got a list of raw files that you
> want to convert to jpeg and then make thumbnails from.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> cd /photo/raw
> for i in *.raw;
> do
> bn=$(basename "${i}" .raw)
> convert_to_jpg "${i}" /
Hi list,
I'm reluctant of following up to start yet another fruitless discussion
on bash vs. dash on this list, if you are really interested cf at least
3 recent threads on that subject in debian-devel.
Please don't let us hijack this thread only because someone jumped
on an aside I'm already re
On 2009-08-03 01:25, jeremy jozwik wrote:
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Sure. For example, let's say that you've got a list of raw files that you
want to convert to jpeg and then make thumbnails from.
#!/bin/bash
cd /photo/raw
for i in *.raw;
do
bn=$(basename "${i}" .ra
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