Wayward crons and inits

2011-01-04 Thread David Baron
I have some cron job trying to run ntpdate which I no longer have on my system nor any of its configs. Have been unable to find it by fgrep-ing in the /etc or /root trees. I also have some init still looking for the no-longer extant /dev/hda, et al. Also unable to find it fgrep-ing the /etc tre

Re: PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka "lp -o fitplot")?

2011-01-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Jan 2011, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:32:09 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a pdf viewer which can print with the option > > "scale-to-fit"? Web searched didn't turn up anything useful. > > I don't see that option under Evince, yep. > > But maybe you ca

a perl question

2011-01-04 Thread S Mathias
cat asdf.txt bla-bla bla-bla bla[XYZ] importantthing another important thing [/XYZ] bla-bla bla-bla [XYZ] yet another thing hello! [/XYZ] bla-bla etc. $ SOMEPERLMAGIC asdf.txt > output.txt $ cat output.txt importantthing another important thing yet another thing hello! how can i sovle this questi

Re: a perl question

2011-01-04 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 02:27 -0800, S Mathias wrote: > cat asdf.txt > bla-bla > bla-bla > bla[XYZ] > importantthing > another important thing > [/XYZ] > bla-bla > bla-bla > [XYZ] > yet another thing > hello! > [/XYZ] > bla-bla > etc. > $ SOMEPERLMAGIC asdf.txt > output.txt > $ cat output.txt > impor

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 03 ian 11, 12:28:25, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > I wouldn't do my internet banking/shopping over such a network though... Would you care to explain why you find an open wireless to be more dangerous than your regular internet connection? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions a

Re: Wayward crons and inits

2011-01-04 Thread Dom
On 04/01/11 07:50, David Baron wrote: I have some cron job trying to run ntpdate which I no longer have on my system nor any of its configs. Have been unable to find it by fgrep-ing in the /etc or /root trees. I also have some init still looking for the no-longer extant /dev/hda, et al. Also una

Re: PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka "lp -o fitplot")?

2011-01-04 Thread Brian
On Tue 04 Jan 2011 at 08:49:23 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I don't know about fitplot, but I found that xpdf would not print > landscape pages correctly; they came out as portrait. But evince does it > without problems. Works for me with a simple lpr -PLaserJet-600 in xpdf's print dialogue.

Re: a perl question

2011-01-04 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 02:27 -0800, S Mathias wrote: >> cat asdf.txt >> bla-bla >> bla-bla >> bla[XYZ] >> importantthing >> another important thing >> [/XYZ] >> bla-bla >> bla-bla >> [XYZ] >> yet another thing >> hello! >> [/XYZ] >> bla-

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-04 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 04 Jan 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: Would you care to explain why you find an open wireless to be more dangerous than your regular internet connection? Because anyone nearby with a laptop can sniff the traffic, unlike with a regular cabled internet connection or a password protected wi

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-04 Thread S Mathias
http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2010/12/unencrypted-public-wifi-should-die.html http://www.exploit-db.com/search/?action=search&filter_page=1&filter_description=&filter_exploit_text=&filter_author=&filter_platform=45&filter_type=3&filter_lang_id=0&filter_port=&filter_osvdb=&filter_cve= --- On Tue, 1/4

looking for a clock, minimum and can play sound

2011-01-04 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I am looking for an count-down clock. Features are: * count down to up to 300 seconds. I wish to configure my fluxbox to activate it by Ctrl+6, which counts down 60 seconds, Ctrl+3 to count down 30 seconds, thus it must be able to accept commandline parameter for counting

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-04 Thread Brian
On Tue 04 Jan 2011 at 09:31:52 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Because anyone nearby with a laptop can sniff the traffic, unlike with a > regular cabled internet connection or a password protected wireless > network (in which traffic in encrypted)? For internet banking/shopping over https

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-04 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 04 Jan 2011, Brian wrote: Because anyone nearby with a laptop can sniff the traffic, unlike with a regular cabled internet connection or a password protected wireless network (in which traffic in encrypted)? For internet banking/shopping over https (which would be the norm) it wouldn't

Re: a perl question

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Davies
S Mathias wrote: > cat asdf.txt > bla-bla > bla-bla > bla[XYZ] > importantthing > another important thing > [/XYZ] > bla-bla > bla-bla > [XYZ] > yet another thing > hello! > [/XYZ] > bla-bla > etc. > $ SOMEPERLMAGIC asdf.txt > output.txt > $ cat output.txt > importantthing > another important thin

Re: Wayward crons and inits

2011-01-04 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:50 AM, David Baron wrote: > > I have some cron job trying to run ntpdate which I no longer have on my system > nor any of its configs. Have been unable to find it by fgrep-ing in the /etc > or /root trees. How about in "/var/spool/cron/crontabs"? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

grub

2011-01-04 Thread John Lindsay
Recently I had to do a reboot. I get the following 'grub' screen titleDebian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 root(hd0,0) kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet initrd/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 titleDebian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686

Re: Where I can to find information about Tiger messages?

2011-01-04 Thread Craicovik
Thank you very much. I will comment what you find on Tiger. To be useful to all users. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/9906bb4d-0e90-4a4f-b6fc-5bdeb52

Re: xfig font problem

2011-01-04 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-01-03 a las 21:10 +0200, Volkan YAZICI escribió: (resending to the list) > On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Camaleón writes: > > And those files seem to be installed by the "xfonts-base" package... > > BTW, I still cannot change the face and size of the fonts. Can you? I cannot help you here as I'm

Re: looking for a clock, minimum and can play sound

2011-01-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:06:30 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. I am looking for an count-down clock. Features are: (...) If you find no aplication that suits your needs, may I suggest a "do- it-yourself" work? :-) Dialog (command line ncurses scripting) and xdialog (GUI) can help you here. It

Re: grub

2011-01-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:12:52 -0500 John Lindsay wrote: > Recently I had to do a reboot. I get the following 'grub' screen > > > titleDebian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 > > root(hd0,0) > > kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet > > initrd/boot/

[OT] Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-04 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On the 04/01/2011 12:19, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 03 ian 11, 12:28:25, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >> >> I wouldn't do my internet banking/shopping over such a network though... > > Would you care to explain why you find an open wireless to be more > dangerous than your regular internet

Re: grub

2011-01-04 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 04. 01. 2011 13:12:52 je John Lindsay napisal(a): Recently I had to do a reboot. I get the following 'grub' screen titleDebian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 root(hd0,0) kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet initrd/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-04 Thread Brad Alexander
You should probably be running a plugin/extension that turns off flash and javascript, and let you selectively enable for individual sites. On firefox/iceweasel, these would be flashblock and noscript. I also have adblock plus installed. With careful use, this will cull out most of the malicious st

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2011-01-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 03:29:21PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: I know you know very well on Debian system but may not be old enough to use dselect with dpkg-ftp etc :-) So some historic comments differ from what I thought. > On Vi, 31 dec 10, 12:24:34, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Andrei Popescu

Re: xfig font problem

2011-01-04 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:44:23 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 09:04:47PM +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote: >> On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Camaleón writes: >> > And those files seem to be installed by the "xfonts-base" package... >> >> Right. I again did the first thing that I need to do as t

squeeze us-intl w/ dead keys on i386/pc/qwerty keyboard

2011-01-04 Thread David A. Bandel
Folks, I've googled this with no helpful results (several unhelpful results regarding dpkg-reconfigure console-data though). I want to get back to the old behavior I had where my i386/pc/qwerty keyboards had dead keys for international characters (like ~n, but with the ~ over the n). Can this be

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-04 Thread Lisi
On Monday 29 November 2010 16:47:31 Camaleón wrote: > Oh, c'mon. There is no need to be a "computer scientist" to care about > your data. Not today. You can buy a USB external disk (or DVD media) and > put there your beloved files. Even Windows can automate this task for you. In my experience hoi

Re: unattended upgrades

2011-01-04 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:54:37 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > I have lenny-based VPS server, which looks after itself pretty well. > Following the recent security notice regarding PHPMyAdmin, I checked the > unattended-upgrades log, where I was surprised to notice that it had > skipped the upgrad

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-04 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Ter, 04 Jan 2011, Brian wrote: >>> >>> Because anyone nearby with a laptop can sniff the traffic, unlike with a >>> regular cabled internet connection or a password protected wireless >>> network (in which traffic in encrypted)? >> >

Re: looking for a clock, minimum and can play sound

2011-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:06:30 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I am looking for an count-down clock. Features are: (...) If you find no aplication that suits your needs, may I suggest a "do- it-yourself" work? :-) Dialog (command line ncurses scripting) and xdialog (GUI) can

Re: squeeze us-intl w/ dead keys on i386/pc/qwerty keyboard

2011-01-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:57:22 -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: > I want to get back to the old behavior I had where my i386/pc/qwerty > keyboards had dead keys for international characters (like ~n, but with > the ~ over the n). > > Can this be done anymore or not? > > dpkg-reconfigure console-data

Re: unattended upgrades

2011-01-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 04/01/11 15:58, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:54:37 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Can anyone explain why this happens? Should I upgrade phpmyadmin manually? Maybe you can run the script with a "--debug" flag ("unattended-upgrades --debug") to get additional information :-? Yes

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:58:40 +, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 29 November 2010 16:47:31 Camaleón wrote: >> Oh, c'mon. There is no need to be a "computer scientist" to care about >> your data. Not today. You can buy a USB external disk (or DVD media) >> and put there your beloved files. Even Windows

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:44:22 -0600 Javier Vasquez wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM, wrote: ... Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the system. ... acpitool -S => suspend to disk (hibernate) => Puts machine into S4. acpitool -s

Re: unattended upgrades

2011-01-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:30:46 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 04/01/11 15:58, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:54:37 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> >>> Can anyone explain why this happens? Should I upgrade phpmyadmin >>> manually? >> >> Maybe you can run the script with a "--debug

Re: build your own ... (primarily Linux/Debian multiboot box)

2011-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Albretch Mueller wrote: ~ this is not a hardware community but you will see why I ask this q here: ~ At sites like these: ~ http://www.tomshardware.com/theme-build-your-own,156.html ~ http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2366841,00.asp ~ you find pretty good outlines/step-by-step guide

Re: unattended upgrades

2011-01-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 04/01/11 17:23, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:30:46 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 04/01/11 15:58, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:54:37 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Can anyone explain why this happens? Should I upgrade phpmyadmin manually? Maybe you can run the s

Re: Wayward crons and inits

2011-01-04 Thread Bob Proulx
David Baron wrote: > I have some cron job trying to run ntpdate which I no longer have on > my system nor any of its configs. Have been unable to find it by > fgrep-ing in the /etc or /root trees. I know you have already looked but here is where I would look. $ sudo find /etc/cron* /var/spool/c

Re: squeeze us-intl w/ dead keys on i386/pc/qwerty keyboard

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 10:57:22AM EST, David A. Bandel wrote: > Folks, > > I've googled this with no helpful results (several unhelpful results > regarding dpkg-reconfigure console-data though). > > I want to get back to the old behavior I had where my i386/pc/qwerty > keyboards had dead keys fo

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-04 Thread Toan Pham
Just a side note. if you want to do S4, make sure that you have swap enabled. And that your swap partition is recommended to be twice the size of your physical ram. On some systems with nvidia or ATI video cards wont allow system to go to suspend/hibernation. You can try to unload xorg server

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-04 Thread Brian
On Tue 04 Jan 2011 at 09:20:39 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: > If you are on a public wifi, you can turn off ssh server (the client > will still work) and nrpe (the Nagios client). On the other hand, if > you turn off password auth in ssh, you should be relatively safe > leaving ssh running. xmpp i

Re: unattended upgrades

2011-01-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:34:40 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 04/01/11 17:23, Camaleón wrote: >>> 2011-01-04 16:13:26,586 DEBUG pkg 'phpmyadmin' has conffile prompt >>> 2011-01-04 16:13:26,595 DEBUG blacklist: ['phpmyadmin'] >> >> (...) >> >>> 2011-01-04 16:13:27,272 INFO No packages found th

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:28:11 -0500, Toan Pham wrote: > Just a side note. > > if you want to do S4, make sure that you have swap enabled. And that > your swap partition is recommended to be twice the size of your physical > ram. Twice? Why? I thought it should be at least the same size :-) I th

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-04 Thread Toan Pham
> Twice? Why? I thought it should be at least the same size :-) > > I think nowadays you can even hibernate with no swap partition at all but > using a swap file. The state of a running system is not just RAM. It is what is in the current swapped filesystem + ram content + video ram. yes you can

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2011-01-04 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 16:56:58 Camaleón wrote: > > One day she messed up her registry to the point where reinstallation was > > essential.  She assured me when asked that her precious 'photos were all > > fine and she had off-computer copies of all of them.  When, after the > > event, it becam

Re: squeeze us-intl w/ dead keys on i386/pc/qwerty keyboard

2011-01-04 Thread Doug
On 01/04/2011 10:57 AM, David A. Bandel wrote: Folks, I've googled this with no helpful results (several unhelpful results regarding dpkg-reconfigure console-data though). I want to get back to the old behavior I had where my i386/pc/qwerty keyboards had dead keys for international characters (

Error installing Squeeze with root filesystem as btrfs

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Richards
I installed the Debian squeeze from the current beta 2 netdisk installer (debian-squeeze-di-beta2-amd64-netinst.iso). I configured an ext4 partition for /boot on /dev/sda1, and a btrfs partition for / on /dev/sda2. On first boot into the system I got the following error: FATAL: Error inserting b

why is this html looks like this?

2011-01-04 Thread S Mathias
soruce code of the html file: http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/6448/sourcey.png it looks like this in the realiy: http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/6448/sourcey.png WHY? if i put it in "< pre >", then it's good. but if it isn't in "< pre >" then the lines ends are random. why dont they end i

Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread mat brown
OK, this is a fun one. I recently took delivery of a new server, a Dell Poweredge R310 Intel Xeon X3440 quad core, 8GB RAM, etc. Storage is four 500GB drives, hardware RAID1 so shows up as two 500GB drives to the system. H/W controller is SAS1068e, Broadcom NIC, everything else is Intel chips. I

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-04 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 20:57 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > John A. Sullivan III writes: > > Does anyone know how to change the behavior of gs, Konqueror, KDE, > > dcop, or anything else to ensure the file icon does not appear until > > the reduction is complete? > > Have gs write to a hidden temporar

Re: squeeze us-intl w/ dead keys on i386/pc/qwerty keyboard

2011-01-04 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 03:44:13PM -0500, Doug wrote: > > > There's a better way. It uses a subset of Unicode and the "compose" > key. On a normal PC keyboard, you have to make a compose key out > of something that's there already, like the right ctrl key, or the right > Microsoft key, which is sel

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-04 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 08:44:22AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM, wrote: > > ... > > Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the > > system. > > > > ... > > acpitool -S => suspend to disk (hibernate) => Puts machine into S4. > acpitool

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-04 Thread Toan Pham
> "Suspend to memory (S3) works on my system under both 2.6.32-5-686 and 2.6.36-2.dmz.5-liquorix-686 kernels. Hibernate to drive (S4) doesn't even try under 2.6.36-2.dmz.5-liquorix-686, as expected. However, Hibernate executes under 2.6.32-5-686, only to abort and return to a running system. The

Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/1/4 mat brown : > OK, this is a fun one.  I recently took delivery of a new server, a > Dell Poweredge R310 try to install with http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ (unofficial debian installer) -- Eero -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: unattended upgrades

2011-01-04 Thread Simon Hollenbach
> > Thanks for replying, Cameleon, but as I said, apt-get install just did > > it effortlessly. No interaction required. > > No prompts asking you about when using "apt-get upgrade"? Weird, because > that was what the log said and the package gets blacklisted because of > that :-? > Hi folks, I

Re: why is this html looks like this?

2011-01-04 Thread Kent West
On 01/04/2011 02:49 PM, S Mathias wrote: soruce code of the html file: http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/6448/sourcey.png it looks like this in the realiy: http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/6448/sourcey.png WHY? if i put it in "< pre>", then it's good. but if it isn't in "< pre>" then the l

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-04 Thread Mark
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Toan Pham wrote: > > On my system running kernel 2.6.32-21, both S3 and S4 work perfectly. > > However, on my other system running kernel 2.6.36-x, both S3 and S4 > failed, giving results similar to your log. > FWIW, I've had good luck using the uswsusp package, s

Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread mat brown
> > try to install withhttp://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/(unofficial debian installer) > I did consider that, but seeing as I've installed both Lenny and Squeeze (not to mention Ubuntu LTS) OK, I'm not sure that it will help: it's not actually installing that's the problem. It's booting the system afte

Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/1/5 mat brown : >> >> try to install withhttp://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/(unofficial debian installer) >> > > I did consider that, but seeing as I've installed both Lenny and > Squeeze (not to mention Ubuntu LTS) OK, I'm not sure that it will > help:  it's not actually installing that's the problem

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 04 ian 11, 09:31:52, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Ter, 04 Jan 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >Would you care to explain why you find an open wireless to be more > >dangerous than your regular internet connection? > > Because anyone nearby with a laptop can sniff the traffic, unlike > wit

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client [going OT]

2011-01-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 03 ian 11, 23:28:24, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > Off topic for Debian but relevant to your question I came across an > article today in Ars Technica : > http://arstechnica.com/security/guides/2011/01/stay-safe-at-a-public-wi-fi-hotspot.ars > > Might be worth reading if you are in t

Re: PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka "lp -o fitplot")?

2011-01-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 03 ian 11, 18:09:31, Brian wrote: > On Mon 03 Jan 2011 at 15:32:09 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone know of a pdf viewer which can print with the option > > "scale-to-fit"? Web searched didn't turn up anything useful. > > > > lp -d printer -o fitplot file.pdf >

how to scan a book

2011-01-04 Thread Long Wind
I have a digital camera I want to scan a book how to convert image files to pdf or other formats? which software should I use? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://

Re: why is this html looks like this?

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Davies
Kent West wrote: > [...] the .png file has a big black block over most of it [...] Same here. It's likely to be the png. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.d

Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread mat brown
> > Of course you can unplug the drac.. eh :) > As far as I can tell (lspci, lsusb, dmesg|grep drac) there's no drac installed. the KVM access I have is through the hosting provider's own system - again, as far as I can tell. I know Dell don't officially support debian, but even so. -- To UNS

Re: Error installing Squeeze with root filesystem as btrfs

2011-01-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Paul Richards put forth on 1/4/2011 2:44 PM: > Is installing to a root btrfs filesystem > expected to work in squeeze yet? If you didn't already know the answer to this question before attempting this, then why are you attempting to use BTRFS? Think about that for a moment. BTRFS is an experime

(solved)Re: how to scan a book

2011-01-04 Thread Long Wind
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Paul Cartwright > if you take JPG pictures, you can open up OpenOffice Writer, import the > JPEGs into a DOC & SAVE-AS PDF.. > > -- Thank Paul Cartwright ! I'll try Writer later on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread Bob Proulx
mat brown wrote: > No matter what combination of LVM, s/w RAID, no s/w RAID, no LVM or > whatever I use, GRUB refuses to boot the installed system. > ... > the problem, installing with no RAID/LVM should work - which it > doesn't. I know you mention several things but just to be clear... You did

Re: (solved)Re: how to scan a book

2011-01-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Long Wind wrote: > Paul Cartwright wrote: > > if you take JPG pictures, you can open up OpenOffice Writer, import the > > JPEGs into a DOC & SAVE-AS PDF.. > > Thank Paul Cartwright ! > I'll try Writer later on. That is a good suggestion. But it sounds tedious to me. ImageMagick can convert imag

Installation Report, failure to install correctly. How do I identify the Package under which I file my report?

2011-01-04 Thread Keith V Stracchino
Hello to you, I have just had my first experience with Debian, an unfortunate one since it has not installed correctly. The installation appears to proceed correctly right up to the point where I attempt to enter my Username into the box on the Debian "Welcome" screen. At that point the comput

Re: (solved)Re: how to scan a book

2011-01-04 Thread Simon Hollenbach
> That is a good suggestion.  But it sounds tedious to me. > Im afraid you missed the point. The OP wants to make the images become text. If I did, excuse and correct me pls. Though I dare to say the described method will most likely be not put into practice. Without a trained monkey noone woul

Re: Error installing Squeeze with root filesystem as btrfs

2011-01-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Paul Richards a écrit : > I installed the Debian squeeze from the current beta 2 netdisk > installer (debian-squeeze-di-beta2-amd64-netinst.iso). > > I configured an ext4 partition for /boot on /dev/sda1, and a btrfs > partition for / on /dev/sda2. > > On first boot into the system I got

Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread Chris Davies
Eero Volotinen wrote: > I had similar problems with R410. I think problem lies in way DRAC > card is recognized at boot and it's virtual drives. I too have had problems in this area on DELL systems with a DRAC. Without reference to my notes I'm relying on memory, but the bottom line is that durin

Re: Installation Report, failure to install correctly. How do I identify the Package under which I file my report?

2011-01-04 Thread Simon Hollenbach
Hi Keith, I assume u clicked ur way through debian.org looking for a CD-Image to download, so I think ur using Debian 'stable' codename Lenny. You have come to us at the time of harvest :) The new Debian, now 'testing', codename Squeeze is nearly finished, I recommend u download a testing instal

Re: Problems installing on Dell R310

2011-01-04 Thread mat brown
> I know you mention several things but just to be clear...  You did try > an install using nothing more than /dev/sda as the root partition with > everything all in one partition?  No software raid.  No lvm.  That > would be the simplest case.  If that fails what is on the screen at > that time?

Re: why is this html looks like this?

2011-01-04 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2011-01-04 22:57:07 +, Chris Davies wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > [...] the .png file has a big black block over most of it [...] > > Same here. It's likely to be the png. > Chris No, you can tell by the arrangement of the black bars that the author put them there on purpose, in order to

Re: (solved)Re: how to scan a book

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 01/04/2011 06:59 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > $ convert file1.jpg file1.pdf nice, I just tried that on a jpg & it worked great. > > And pdftk can concatenate them. > > $ pdftk file*.pdf cat output combined.pdf > > You can install them with: > > $ sudo apt-get install imagemagick pdftk I d

Re: how to scan a book

2011-01-04 Thread godo
On 01/05/2011 12:20 AM, Long Wind wrote: I have a digital camera I want to scan a book how to convert image files to pdf or other formats? which software should I use? Thanks! Hi, you can convert images to pdf with 'convert': $ convert your-image.jpg your-pdf.pdf -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvat

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-04 Thread briand
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:15:12 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:44:22 -0600 > > Javier Vasquez wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM, wrote: > >>> ... > >>> Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping > >>> the syst

Re: (solved)Re: how to scan a book

2011-01-04 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 16:59 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Long Wind wrote: > > Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > if you take JPG pictures, you can open up OpenOffice Writer, import the > > > JPEGs into a DOC & SAVE-AS PDF.. > > > > Thank Paul Cartwright ! > > I'll try Writer later on. > > That is a good