Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

T o n g wrote: Hi, Having upgraded iceweasel, I am no longer able to call firefox or mozilla from command line any more. I don't mind firefox is called iceweasel or whatever in Debian, but entirely stopping me from starting firefox is something I don't feel comfortable. Please comment.

Re: Password messed up

On Thu, 06 May 2010 15:11:17 -0500, Don wrote: > Reviewing the three files suggested above... > > I have included what I feel might be the significant areas of interest > (the "tails") for these 3 files below. They were observed after the > computer log in GUI screen was waiting for several minu

Re: replacing hardware raid with software raid

Andreas Sachs put forth on 5/7/2010 1:50 AM: > Hi, > i created a raid-5 array with a LSI MegaRaid 150-6 controller (i used 4 sata > drives). Is it possible to use the array without the hardware raid controller > with linux software raid/ mdadm? No, this is not possible. Did your MegaRAID card d

Re: Newsreaders (was: Re: How to flush cache of certain disk?)

On Thu, 06 May 2010 16:26:43 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) Freeman, Robert, thanks for your suggestions about newsreader clients. I'll give a shot at both programs (time permitting), they seem to be very lightweight and I really appreciate that. Besides, they're under standard lenny repos so it

Re: isn't sed s,x,x, one big no-op?

> "SJ" == Sven Joachim writes: SJ> Yes, actually you can do it at build time by using the configure option SJ> --program-transform-name. Say you want grub to be named grub2 to SJ> distinguish it from grub-legacy, then you can run SJ> $ ./configure --program-transform-name=s/grub/grub2/ SJ>

Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

Sorry list/Dotan. :-( I thought that I had persuaded my email client to send this to the list. (It wanted to send the reply to Dotan because he had sent a copy to me personally.) Lisi -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Kde 3.5 ... Date: Friday 07 May 2010 From: Lisi To:

usb raid1 pendrive boot

Did anyone managed to boot from RAID1? Lenny gives this error message: "mdadm: no devices found for /dev/md0" I just want to install Debian Lenny on two pendrives [in sRAID1], so that the HDD's in the pc can be used only as ""data containers"", but it gives this error message. Please help me.

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

Please tell me what KDE 4.4 is missing, or what it has that you dislike. I can help address those issues. I doubt it, because I think that the problem is the basic philosophy. They have sacrificed funtionality in favour of glitz. E.g. 1. You cannot turn off all those horrible, and to me actu

usb raid1 pendrive boot

Did anyone managed to boot from RAID1? Lenny gives this error message: "mdadm: no devices found for /dev/md0" I just want to install Debian Lenny on two pendrives [in sRAID1], so that the HDD's in the pc can be used only as ""data containers"", but it gives this error message. Please help me.

usb raid1 pendrive boot

Did anyone managed to boot from RAID1? Lenny gives this error message: "mdadm: no devices found for /dev/md0" I just want to install Debian Lenny on two pendrives [in sRAID1], so that the HDD's in the pc can be used only as ""data containers"", but it gives this error message. Please help me.

Re: Redirect stdout without clobbering?

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is there a way to redirect stdout to a file without clobbering its > possibly-existing contents? Rather, the output should be appended to > the end of the file. Thanks. Maybe you would like to hear about noclober option in bash (set -o noclobber

Re: TOra with Oracle support (was: Re: Kde 3.5 ...)

Cassiano Leal wrote: > On 6 May 2010 14:06, deloptes wrote: >> Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >>> >>> Yes, KDE 4 seems to be much better for the average Joe. But that is >>> the reason that power users suffer at the moment! A.Joe already has >>> Gnome... >>> >>> >> >> Exactly! OK, I'll look forward to tes

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

T o n g wrote: > Version table: > 3.5.9-3 0 > 50 http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca unstable/main Packages > *** 3.5.9-2 0 > 300 http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca testing/main Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Didn't it said unstable??? what would you expect??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: usb raid1 pendrive boot

Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > Did anyone managed to boot from RAID1? > > Lenny gives this error message: > > "mdadm: no devices found for /dev/md0" > > I just want to install Debian Lenny on two pendrives [in sRAID1], so > that the HDD's in the pc can be used only as ""data containers"", but it > gives

Procmail: re-sort all messages

Hi, I've just installed fetchmail → procmail → mutt → msmtp chain and want to configure procmail properly. Of course, I can't write all the rules in the right way from scratch, so there must be some testing. The only way to check how rules works is actually run procmail and see what happens. Here

Re: usb raid1 pendrive boot

But i thought that, I can boot from RAID1 under Lenny. So i can't? So the solution is that I need a separate /boot partition? But the RAID will be useless then... 2010. 05. 7, péntek keltezéssel 14.22-kor deloptes ezt írta: > Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > > > Did anyone managed to boot from RAID1

Re: usb raid1 pendrive boot

Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > But i thought that, I can boot from RAID1 under Lenny. So i can't? As matter of fact there is not enough information to say exactly what's your issue, but this is an option I would check. > > So the solution is that I need a separate /boot partition? In your case if the m

Re: usb raid1 pendrive boot

also sprach Jozsi Vadkan [2010.05.07.1440 +0200]: > But i thought that, I can boot from RAID1 under Lenny. So i can't? You should be able to, using grub-pc. Try passing rootdelay=15 to the kernel boot command line. If this doesn't work, you'll need to provide a lot more information about what yo

Re: Procmail: re-sort all messages

On 07/05/10 13:38, Alexander Batischev wrote: > So here is what I'm looking for: is there a way to run procmail on > already downloaded messages? Maybe I should download them to separate > directory and run procmail on it? Maybe I can just pass existing > (already sorted) mail directory to procmail

Re: usb raid1 pendrive boot

rootdelay=15 worked!!! THANK YOU!!! 2010. 05. 7, péntek keltezéssel 14.54-kor martin f krafft ezt írta: > also sprach Jozsi Vadkan [2010.05.07.1440 +0200]: > > But i thought that, I can boot from RAID1 under Lenny. So i can't? > > You should be able to, using grub-pc. Try passing r

Re: Redirect stdout without clobbering?

On 7 May 2010 14:48, Javier Barroso wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Is there a way to redirect stdout to a file without clobbering its >> possibly-existing contents? Rather, the output should be appended to >> the end of the file. Thanks. > Maybe you would like to h

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

On Fri, 07 May 2010 07:41:44 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> whatever in Debian, but entirely stopping me from starting firefox is >> something I don't feel comfortable. > > This is a feeling that many other users share, and therefore… > >> $ apt-cache policy iceweasel >> iceweasel: >> Installed

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

On 05/07/2010 05:11 PM, T o n g wrote: [snip] Thanks Sven, and everyone who replied. Just FYI, I was able to start iceweasel by either firefox or mozilla before. A symlink might help you accomplish that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: usb raid1 pendrive boot

also sprach Jozsi Vadkan [2010.05.07.1538 +0200]: > rootdelay=15 worked!!! http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mdadm.git;a=blob;f=debian/FAQ;hb=HEAD#l560 -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'`

Re: Linux Zimbra front ends - was Re: Kde 3.5 ... (Maybe OT)

On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 06:46 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,06.May.10, 22:36:43, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > For a web client, it is outstanding, but it still has serious > > limitations to be an Outlook replacement and we are looking to replace > > many thousands of Outlook installat

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

On 6 May 2010 22:51, Richard Hartmann wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 21:27, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Mine is in Hebrew, but there should be a "View" menu, then "Previews". Click >> it! > > Funny, never noticed that. The setting is not persistant over all > directories, though. > Change that in

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

> Having upgraded iceweasel, I am no longer able to call firefox or mozilla > from command line any more. I don't mind firefox is called iceweasel or > whatever in Debian, but entirely stopping me from starting firefox is > something I don't feel comfortable. > Please comment. If I understand

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

On 6 May 2010 23:15, Richard Hartmann wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 18:14, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> System Settings -> Input and Output >> RightClick -> New -> Global Shortcut -> Command > > It's called "Input Actions". > But yes, this works. Still, the current way things are done are > less tha

Re: isn't sed s,x,x, one big no-op?

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 05:39:52PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > "SJ" == Sven Joachim writes: > > SJ> Yes, actually you can do it at build time by using the configure option > SJ> --program-transform-name. Say you want grub to be named grub2 to > SJ> distinguish it from grub-legacy,

Re: Procmail: re-sort all messages

On Fri, May 7 at 15:38, Alexander Batischev penned: > Hi, > > I've just installed fetchmail ??? procmail ??? mutt ??? msmtp chain > and want to configure procmail properly. Of course, I can't write > all the rules in the right way from scratch, so there must be some > testing. The only way to che

Simple tool to extract sound from video?

Hi, I have some videos, with different encodings, whose soundtrack is interesting for me. How can I extract the related sountracks in an easy way? I tried with VLC, but to no avail, as VLC either creates another file, with the desired extension (e.g. mp3), but with the same content (i.e. video + s

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 21:19, Merciadri Luca < luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: > Hi, > > I have some videos, with different encodings, whose soundtrack is > interesting for me. How can I extract the related sountracks in an easy > way? I tried with VLC, but to no avail, as VLC either crea

How can I find the port which my HP 50g is connected to?

Hi, I am currently trying to connect my HP 50g with my Debian Lenny (k. 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem), through HP Talx 1.3.1. When reading the readme for 49g+ models, I realized that a module had to be loaded. For kernels like 2.6.26 (i.e. those later than 2.6.14), the module to launch is `hp4x'. I issued

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

On Fri, 07 May 2010 17:16:44 +0300 Aioanei Rares wrote: Hello Aioanei, > A symlink might help you accomplish that. T o n g's point is that there used to be one. At some upgrade or other, it's been removed. The question is: Why? -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

On Thursday 06 May 2010 23:20:07 T o n g wrote: > > $ update-alternatives --display firefox > update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for firefox. > > $ update-alternatives --display mozilla > update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for mozilla. In the alternatives scheme, the browser i

Re: How can I find the port which my HP 50g is connected to?

On Fri, 07 May 2010 17:59:03 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I am currently trying to connect my HP 50g with my Debian Lenny (k. > 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem), through HP Talx 1.3.1. > > When reading the readme for 49g+ models, I realized that a module had to > be loaded. For kernels like 2.6.26 (i.e. th

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

Thanks. Is the bitrate automatically selected depending on the video's audio, or is it arbitrarily set as 64 k? I get many == invalid new backstep 695 invalid new backstep 696 == but with quite same numbers. Normal? Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 21:19, Merciadri Luca >

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

On 05/07/2010 06:06 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: The x-www-browser is respected by K desktop apps, and in my config, they all now use Iceweasel instead of Konqueror when I click on links. I don't know what other apps might or might not respect the x-www-browser setting, but I would think any deskt

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 09:29:44PM +0530, Anand Sivaram wrote: > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 21:19, Merciadri Luca < > luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have some videos, with different encodings, whose soundtrack is > > interesting for me. How can I extract the related sount

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 21:44, Rob Owens wrote: > On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 09:29:44PM +0530, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 21:19, Merciadri Luca < > > luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have some videos, with different encodings, whose soundtrack

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

Anand Sivaram wrote: > You could use "-ab " to set the audio bitrate Sure. It works like great. However, the command line (if any) to encode in mp3 looks less obvious to remember. But .mp2 is not as good as .mp3, at least for bitrates in [0, 256], is it? -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.m

Re: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

On 7 May 2010 11:56, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 06 May 2010 18:22:18 you wrote: >> >> You still have gnustep, xfce, lxde, no using any or simply never >> >> upgrade. >> > >> > I have looked at all those, in addition to KDE 4 and Gnome. None appeals >> > to me. Each has something that I strongly d

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

Rob Owens wrote: > Avidemux can do it also. It's a GUI, but I think it's more > straightforward to do it with ffmpeg, as suggested above Thanks. ffmpeg does actually, exactly what I want. Thanks. (For such things, people habitually ask for a mere commandline use, at least me.) -- Merciadri Luca

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 21:49, Merciadri Luca < luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > Avidemux can do it also. It's a GUI, but I think it's more > > straightforward to do it with ffmpeg, as suggested above > Thanks. ffmpeg does actually, exactly what I want. Thanks. (For

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

Anand Sivaram wrote: > I am not sure your particular version of ffmpeg has got mp3 supports > Look at "ffmpeg -formats". It contains both container and codec > formats information, > where 'D' means decode, 'E' means encode. > Thanks for this pointer. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.mon

Re: How can I find the port which my HP 50g is connected to?

My emacs seems to be buggy. Here is the answer with Thunderbird: == From: Merciadri Luca Subject: Re: How can I find the port which my HP 50g is connected to? Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 18:30:39 +0200 Organization: ULg [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] [1. text/plain] Camal

Re: How can I find the port which my HP 50g is connected to?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > Just type "dmesg" and look for any "ttyUSB*" messages. I had to make some grep stuff, because it is actually not shown directly (lot of garbage between the recognition and the assignment, apparently). Thanks, worked. - -- Merciad

Hptalx is buggy once calculator is plugged and linked

Hi, Now that I know that my calculator is connected through ttyusb0, I have configured HpTalx. Nice, I clicked `Save' and it directly bugged (I had the bug-buddy tool which popped up). 'Was too good to be true, wasn't it? Here is the log: == System: Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem #1 SMP Wed Feb 10 09

Re: Hptalx is buggy once calculator is plugged and linked

I might add that it now never starts normally: the bug-buddy tool directly appears at every startup, ending the process. (Sorry for the second msg.) Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > Now that I know that my calculator is connected through ttyusb0, I have > configured HpTalx. Nice, I clicked `Save' a

Re: Hptalx is buggy once calculator is plugged and linked

On Fri, 07 May 2010 18:40:46 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Now that I know that my calculator is connected through ttyusb0, I have > configured HpTalx. Nice, I clicked `Save' and it directly bugged (I had > the bug-buddy tool which popped up). 'Was too good to be true, wasn't > it? (...) Just a

Re: usb raid1 pendrive boot

On Friday 07 May 2010 08:22:00 deloptes wrote: > Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > > Did anyone managed to boot from RAID1? > > > > Lenny gives this error message: > > > > "mdadm: no devices found for /dev/md0" > > > You'll need a small i.e. 20-30MB partition out of raid to boot from with > i.e. initrd which

Configuring X for second monitor running free-driver.

Good day. Could You please help me with my X server config. I'm trying to use only external monitor connected to a laptop and all is fine except that I have no 3D-support and also mplayer when playing movies shows it only in full screen mode and refuses to show it in its window. It seems to m

Search Google for "selected text"

When in iceweasel/firefox when I can right click on selected text and I get the option to search google for the selected text in a new tab. Anybody know of a way I can have the same in icedove/thunderbird by right clicking? -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #38026

Re: Search Google for "selected text"

On Fri, 07 May 2010 10:13:23 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > When in iceweasel/firefox when I can right click on selected text and I > get the option to search google for the selected text in a new tab. > > Anybody know of a way I can have the same in icedove/thunderbird by > right clicking? It se

Re: Hptalx is buggy once calculator is plugged and linked

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Fri, 07 May 2010 18:40:46 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Now that I know that my calculator is connected through ttyusb0, I have >> configured HpTalx. Nice, I clicked `Save' and it directly bugged (I had >> the bug-buddy tool

Is Firefox/Iceweasel leaking?

Hi, I noticed on many computers with Debian, whatever the kernel (2.6.xx, xx >= 26), that, once ``too much'' tabs have been opened, Firefox/Iceweasel becomes sluggish, slower and slower, and often stalls after some time. I also noticed that, when becoming more and more sluggish, it takes more and

Re: Hptalx is buggy once calculator is plugged and linked

On Fri, 07 May 2010 19:36:36 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> Just a wild guess, but try to launch the application as "root" user. >> Maybe it's a device permissions issue :-? > I had thought about it. I had not tried it, and, to my deception, > exactly the same facts happen.

Re: Is Firefox/Iceweasel leaking?

On Fri, 07 May 2010 19:58:26 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I noticed on many computers with Debian, whatever the kernel (2.6.xx, xx >>= 26), that, once ``too much'' tabs have been opened, Firefox/Iceweasel > becomes sluggish, slower and slower, and often stalls after some time. I > also noticed t

Re: Angström manual

Koen Kooi wrote: > If you go to > http://gitorious.org/angstrom-manual/angstrom-manual/commits/master you > should see your commit :) > > It does look like you need to do something like: > > git config --global user.email "ml...@swing.be" > > to get your email address right. > Thanks. I am re

Re: Search Google for "selected text"

Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 07 May 2010 10:13:23 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: When in iceweasel/firefox when I can right click on selected text and I get the option to search google for the selected text in a new tab. Anybody know of a way I can have the same in icedove/thunderbird by right clickin

Re: Search Google for "selected text"

On Fri, 07 May 2010 11:46:35 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> It seems there is an add-on for Thunderbird: >> >> SearchWith >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2194/ (...) > I was just now coming to tell you guys that I found this add on > https://addons.mozi

Re: Search Google for "selected text"

Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 07 May 2010 11:46:35 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Camaleón wrote: It seems there is an add-on for Thunderbird: SearchWith https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2194/ (...) I was just now coming to tell you guys that I found this add on https://addon

Re: [Semi-OT] Accessing gmail from Python

Ron Johnson wrote: Does anyone have an example of how to do this? Google hasn't helped, specifically at telling me what the keyfile and certfile should be. Google *did*, though, help me with fetchmail, so now I have the relevant pem files. $ dir .certs/ total 48 drwxr-xr-x 2 me me 4096 2

Re: How to flush cache of certain disk?

Alexander Batischev wrote: But all you said made me hard thinking about the way I mount and unmount my removable media. Maybe I should forget about sync and use 'umount /mnt/sd[a-z]' instead, or even write little script which will ask me which device I want to unmount… [snip] Which is what ejec

debuild of evolution-data-server fails

Hello, all. We are trying to rebuild the evolution-data-server package after patching it to hopefully end our current email nightmare. The base system is Lenny but we are using evolution from squeeze. When I try to debuild, I am getting the following errors: checking for GNOME_PLATFORM... config

Re: How to flush cache of certain disk?

On 7 May 2010 23:10, thib wrote: >> But all you said made me hard thinking about the way I mount and >> unmount my removable media. Maybe I should forget about sync and use >> 'umount /mnt/sd[a-z]' instead, or even write little script which will >> ask me which device I want to unmount… [snip] > >

Re: [Semi-OT] Accessing gmail from Python

On 05/07/2010 02:32 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Does anyone have an example of how to do this? Google hasn't helped, specifically at telling me what the keyfile and certfile should be. Google *did*, though, help me with fetchmail, so now I have the relevant pem files. $ dir .

Re: debuild of evolution-data-server fails

On 2010-05-07 22:17 +0200, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Hello, all. We are trying to rebuild the evolution-data-server package > after patching it to hopefully end our current email nightmare. The > base system is Lenny but we are using evolution from squeeze. When I > try to debuild, I am gett

Re: debuild of evolution-data-server fails

On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 22:57 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-05-07 22:17 +0200, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > Hello, all. We are trying to rebuild the evolution-data-server package > > after patching it to hopefully end our current email nightmare. The > > base system is Lenny but we are

More important question... (was Re: usb raid1 pendrive boot)

On 05/07/2010 06:21 AM, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: Did anyone managed to boot from RAID1? Lenny gives this error message: "mdadm: no devices found for /dev/md0" I just want to install Debian Lenny on two pendrives [in sRAID1], so that the HDD's in the pc can be used only as ""data containers"", but i

Re: usb raid1 pendrive boot

also sprach Andrew Reid [2010.05.07.1903 +0200]: >   Just for the record, it actually *is* possible to boot off a partition > that's in RAID1, but you might have to use grub.  The reason it works > is because grub can read past the md-raid1 metadata without getting > confused Correction: the md m

Re: Hptalx is buggy once calculator is plugged and linked

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Fri, 07 May 2010 19:36:36 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> Just a wild guess, but try to launch the application as "root" user. >>> Maybe it's a device permissions issue :-? > >> I had thought about it.

Re: Search Google for "selected text"

On 05/07/2010 12:13 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: When in iceweasel/firefox when I can right click on selected text and I get the option to search google for the selected text in a new tab. Anybody know of a way I can have the same in icedove/thunderbird by right clicking? Hyperwords. https://addon

Re: debuild of evolution-data-server fails

On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 17:11 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 22:57 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2010-05-07 22:17 +0200, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > > Hello, all. We are trying to rebuild the evolution-data-server package > > > after patching it to hopefully e

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

On Friday 07 May 2010 12:28:03 Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Please do not judge KDE4 by not being a copy of KDE 3.5. If that was the > case, there would be no point in making a new version anyway. The > important question is whether KDE lacks functionality that should be > there (this includes, but is

Re: Unable to find growisofs executable . . .

~ I just discovered k3b was not included in knoppix version 6.2 ~ > s...@stt008:~$ whereis growisofs > growisofs: /usr/bin/growisofs /usr/share/man/man1/growisofs.1.gz > > If that returns no output, you'll have to follow the wise-advice of K3B: > "(sic) Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package."

Re: isn't sed s,x,x, one big no-op?

> "AS" == Andrew Sackville-West writes: AS> ISTM that is much easier and more reliable to change one variable at AS> the beginning of the file than to change all the sed expressions AS> throughout the file... OK, but whatever they do, they should remember that it looks like Welcome to Window

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Lisi wrote: > No - that is the problem!!  I loved KDE 3.5.x and have become quite slick with > it.  KDE 4 is different.  I don't like it.  If I have to, in effect, change > DE, and go through the learning curve again, there is no reason why it would > have to be to

Re: Re: Password messed up

I posted this earlier today but did not see it come across in email, so I am re-posting. Excuse if this is a duplicate! Thanks... Original Message Subject: Re: Re: Password messed up Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 15:13:14 -0500 From: Don To: debian-user@lists.debian.org References:

Re: GRUB2 resolution

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Drew Paschal wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Paul E Condon >> wrote: >> > Look in /etc/default/grub. Replace the line: >> > #GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 >> > with one the suits your fancy. And remove the # at the b

Re: Is Firefox/Iceweasel leaking?

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:58, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed on many computers with Debian, whatever the kernel (2.6.xx, xx >>= 26), that, once ``too much'' tabs have been opened, Firefox/Iceweasel > becomes sluggish, slower and slower, and often stalls after some time. I > also noticed

Re: GRUB2 resolution

LOL Well, for what it's worth, I used to use lilo a long time ago. :) On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Drew Paschal wrote: > > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Tom H wrote: > >> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Paul E Condon < > pecon...@mesanetw

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

On 2010-05-07 18:19:44 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >Rob Owens wrote: >> Avidemux can do it also. It's a GUI, but I think it's more >> straightforward to do it with ffmpeg, as suggested above > >Thanks. ffmpeg does actually, exactly what I want. Thanks. (For such >things, people habitually ask for

Re: Password messed up

On Friday 07 May 2010 21:15:17 Don wrote: > Thanks, and if anyone has more ideas on fixing my password/login > problem, please help! Coming in late to this thread, but if your K desktop is OK, then you actually have this problem quite well isolated to something in the KDM log-in process. It's n

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

On 05/07/2010 09:48 PM, Phil Requirements wrote: On 2010-05-07 18:19:44 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Rob Owens wrote: Avidemux can do it also. It's a GUI, but I think it's more straightforward to do it with ffmpeg, as suggested above Thanks. ffmpeg does actually, exactly what I want. Thanks.

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

Please do not judge KDE4 by not being a copy of KDE 3.5. If that was the case, there would be no point in making a new version anyway. The important question is whether KDE lacks functionality that should be there (this includes, but is not limited to, functionality present in KDE <4) and if tha

Re: How to schedule for a repeated task?

node? Before? I'd really need to look at the script you are using, the > one produced by the autoexpect session, but you could try either sending > an extra `exit' string or sending a control-C (send \003) > Take a look here¹ for more ASCII Control Characters. > When exactly you need to press Contr

Re: Simple tool to extract sound from video?

On 2010-05-07 23:52:47 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >On 05/07/2010 09:48 PM, Phil Requirements wrote: >>On 2010-05-07 18:19:44 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >>>Rob Owens wrote: Avidemux can do it also. It's a GUI, but I think it's more straightforward to do it with ffmpeg, as suggested above >