Re: acpi trouble

2011-02-21 Thread Matteo Giani
the only problem is, my battery seems not to generate any events (i checked with acpi_listen), except when plugging/unplugging from AC power. in particular, it doesn't generate any event when it's charging/discharging (even at very low levels). Does it work when the charging/discharging e

Re: Two node storage failover with lvm and ISCSI

2011-02-21 Thread Denny Schierz
hi Stan, Am Sonntag, den 20.02.2011, 20:13 -0600 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > It's not clear to me at this point if you need real time > file/filesystem sharing or simply manual fail over from a dead host to > a backup server. than it's my fault :-) I want failover (the second in your words). If nod

AC adapter state

2011-02-21 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hello to all! I have a DELL laptop running debian squeeze where I cannot find whether it is connected on AC power or not. On an EEE laptop, I can check that using the info in the file /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0/state, but such file does not exist on the DELL laptop. But KDE shows me correctly the r

Re: Cannot set preferred application

2011-02-21 Thread Russell Gadd
On 20/02/11 17:40, Russell Gadd wrote: I've filed a bug report now -- 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/ijtea9$m5u$1...@news.eternal-september.org

AC adapter state

2011-02-21 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hello to all! I have a DELL laptop running debian squeeze where I cannot find whether it is connected on AC power or not. On an EEE laptop, I can check that using the info in the file /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0/state, but such file does not exist on the DELL laptop. But KDE shows me correctly the r

Re: no sound in squeeze

2011-02-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/20/2011 10:52 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Try speaker-test. $ speaker-test speaker-test 1.0.23 Playback device is default Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels Using 16 octaves of pink noise ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:4170:(_snd_confi

Re: no sound in squeeze-SOLVED

2011-02-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/20/2011 10:52 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Try speaker-test. that didn't work.. so I finally remembered: # modprobe snd_hda_intel # lsmod|grep intel /etc/init.d/alsasound restart CLICK! sound again. seems the new Squeeze didn't setup my sound right, or I haven't rebooted since my squeeze f

Re: Disc encryptian.

2011-02-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Heddle Weaver: > > looking at the collective knowledge factor, what's the best disc encryption > package? > What's everybody using? > Two examples of Xzibit this week and hash changes showing up in the logs. > No damage, just nosy kids. I am not sure what you are saying, but be aware that disk en

Re: nepomukuser

2011-02-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/21/2011 12:14 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: GNOME and Nepomuk. Tracker is like Strigi+Nepomuk: the metadata store and access layer is in the same application as the indexing tool. The tracker indexer could , in theory, be used to feed data to Nepomuk - they both use the ontologies that ca

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Russell Gadd
There is effectively a list reply feature in gmail. Hit "Reply to all" and debian-user@lists.debian.org appears in the cc field. For this reply I have removed the To address and just kept the cc address. However I use Icedove for newsgroups and also a gmail account where I automatically archive th

Re: AC adapter state

2011-02-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 02. 2011 11:40:19 je Γιώργος Πάλλας napisal(a): Hello to all! I have a DELL laptop running debian squeeze where I cannot find whether it is connected on AC power or not. On an EEE laptop, I can check that using the info in the file /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0/state, but such file does

Re: Console resolution

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 18 feb 11, 19:22:07, Dom wrote: > > d) is the only option that worked for one of my machines. It used to > run the nvidia driver, but stopped working when I upgraded it to > squeeze and it tried to use the nouveau driver. > > Removing all traces of the nvidia driver and just using nouveau

Re: screen resolution in Squeeze?

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 18 feb 11, 22:49:22, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 05:16:06PM +0100, Lars Nielsen wrote: > > I have just installed squeeze and it seems to work fine. But my screen > > resolution is to low! I have a 24" wide screen and I can "only" set the > > resolution to 1280x1024. Where o

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 19 feb 11, 12:43:23, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > >After I posted to the list I found > >http://linuxinside.blogspot.com/2008/03/debian-nvidia-drivers.html > > > from a text-based terminal ( CTRL-ALT-F1), you run: > # sgfxi -c > > and it runs & pulls in the headers for you & installs the la

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 19 feb 11, 20:10:28, Brian wrote: > > With NVidia the almost automatic response is to dive into the proprietry > driver pool. It seems to me that unless 3D is a need (used by less than > 5% of users) or the card is not supported well, you are going to be > served well by the nouveau driver.

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 20 Feb 22:06 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Some consumer wireless routers don't like to do DHCP pass through, and > won't serve DHCP when configured as a bridge, in which case the Linux > firewall will have to serve DHCP. If the wireless router won't pass > DHCP from the wired to wireles

Re: Xfce Power Manager popup message about HAL daemon

2011-02-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 19 Feb 12:32 -0600, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 02/19/2011 12:31 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > >Bug #612611 has been filed against xfce4-power-manager, > >xfce4-power-manager: Does not work with DBus activated HAL > > > >Message 15 in that report has a workaround: > > > >http://bugs.debian.

Re: AC adapter state

2011-02-21 Thread Martin Kraus
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:40:19PM +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Hello to all! > > I have a DELL laptop running debian squeeze where I cannot find whether > it is connected on AC power or not. On an EEE laptop, I can check that > using the info in the file /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0/state, but suc

Re: nepomukuser

2011-02-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 03:15, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 02/21/2011 12:14 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: >>> >>> GNOME and Nepomuk. >>> >> >> Tracker is like Strigi+Nepomuk: the metadata store and access layer >> is in the same application as the indexing tool. The tracker indexer >> could , in theory

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-21 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:47:19 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/16/2011 04:51 PM, Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500 > > shawn wilson wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> whatever you get as long as the hardware isn't too strange. strange might > >> be > >> a gsm modem, fingerprint read

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/21/2011 08:21 AM, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:47:19 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/2011 04:51 PM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500 shawn wilson wrote: ... whatever you get as long as the hardware isn't too strange. strange might be a gsm modem, fingerp

Re: /USR/SBIN/CRON[20837]: (CRON) error (grandchild #20839 failed with exit status 1)

2011-02-21 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, You might try 1) increasing the logging verbosity of cron via uncommenting EXTRA_OPTS="-L 2" line in /etc/default/cron, and 2) taking a look at /var/spool/cron directory contents. Best. On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:15:49 +1100, Robert S writes: > I'm getting these in my syslog: > > Feb 21 06:05:0

Re: Cannot set preferred application

2011-02-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:56:21 +, Russell Gadd wrote: > On 20/02/11 19:30, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:16:12 +, Russell Gadd wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> So I now try right clicking on the file and choose Open with "Other >>> Application", choose "audacious" and tick the box which

Re: GNOME root's logins (looking for feeback)

2011-02-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:57:20 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Should we avoid users (or root) from using "rm" > > I read an article in the last two weeks where this was proposed... Me also... I guess we are both talking on this: Should We Abolish User

Re: Lenny-to-Squeeze: ... and no net. (Sorry, reSending)

2011-02-21 Thread PMA
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 13:04 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 12 feb 11, 20:43:55, armst...@eskimo.com wrote: > > Hi List. > > > > In the midst of upgrading Lenny to Squeeze - specifically, upon reboot after > > installing the new kernel and udev - I find that: > > > > 1) My external hard driv

Re: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized

2011-02-21 Thread Chris
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 05:37:26PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2011-02-18, Chris wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 06:05:22PM +0800, Michael Tsang wrote: > >> On Wednesday 16 February 2011 16:37:09 Chris wrote: > >> > Hi everyone, > >> > > >> > Since I do a normal update, I can't mount my fl

RAID start at boot

2011-02-21 Thread Gregory Seidman
Is there a way to make sure my RAID (level 1) won't be started degraded? On boot, one disk is found before the others, and the RAID is started before the others are seen. (They are seen at different times because I am transitioning from USB to eSATA, and the one eSATA disk is seen before any USB di

Re: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized

2011-02-21 Thread Chris
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:42:53PM +1100, James Robertson wrote: > > I have configured policykit before. > > I have /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-localauthority.conf > with the contents: > [filesystems mount internal privs] > Identity=unix-group:mygroup > Acti

Re: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized

2011-02-21 Thread AG
On 16/02/11 08:37, Chris wrote: Hi everyone, Since I do a normal update, I can't mount my flash drive from nautilus. It works before. The error message is: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized But if I manually mount using "sudo mount ...", it works fine. I found this post, http://lists.de

Re: How do I install all complex fonts?

2011-02-21 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:13:51 +0700, Hoang Le wrote: > Complex fonts such as Asian fonts are not installed by defaults. Is > there any way to install all or most of them without picking individual > font? Hum... a concrete font selection is a very personal issue but maybe you can start with the "

Re: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized

2011-02-21 Thread Chris
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 02:58:43PM +, AG wrote: > On 16/02/11 08:37, Chris wrote: > >Hi everyone, > > > >Since I do a normal update, I can't mount my flash drive from > >nautilus. It works before. > >The error message is: > > > >Unable to mount [device] > >Not Authorized > > > >But if I manuall

Re: RAID start at boot

2011-02-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gregory Seidman [2011.02.21.1608 +0100]: > Is there a way to make sure my RAID (level 1) won't be started degraded? On > boot, one disk is found before the others, and the RAID is started before > the others are seen. Add rootdelay=10 to the kernel command line in lilo.conf, provided

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED

2011-02-21 Thread Joe Riel
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:35:15 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 19 feb 11, 11:09:06, Joe Riel wrote: > > > > An advantage for me of the noveau driver, besides restoring the > > beep in an xterm, was that the console font (in a virtual terminal) > > is much nicer. I had tried various configura

Re: RAID start at boot

2011-02-21 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 04:38:29PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Gregory Seidman > [2011.02.21.1608 +0100]: > > Is there a way to make sure my RAID (level 1) won't be started > > degraded? On boot, one disk is found before the others, and the RAID is > > started before the others ar

Re: squeeze installation: monitor problem?

2011-02-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:46:59 -0600, Charlie wrote: > I have an i386 machine that ran etch and was upgraded to lenny. After a > squeeze upgrade did not work, I decided to install from scratch, using a > CD with netinst. > >The intallation seemed to go all right until > the reboot. At that ti

Re: no sound in squeeze-SOLVED

2011-02-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Cartwright wrote: On 02/20/2011 10:52 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Try speaker-test. that didn't work.. so I finally remembered: # modprobe snd_hda_intel # lsmod|grep intel /etc/init.d/alsasound restart CLICK! sound again. seems the new Squeeze didn't setup my sound right, or I haven't rebo

Re: RAID start at boot

2011-02-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gregory Seidman [2011.02.21.1651 +0100]: > > Add rootdelay=10 to the kernel command line in lilo.conf, provided you > > are using a recent initramfs. > > I don't think that will do what I want. The RAID in question is > not my root filesystem. That does not matter; it gives the init

NVidia: wake up from suspend

2011-02-21 Thread quiritius
Hi, I run Squeeze on a Latitude D630 laptop with Quadro NVS 135M (rev a1). Can someone give me pointers how to fix the following? I suspend to RAM. After the startup the first suspend-wakeup cycle is normal (usually, more often than not) i.e. I return to the vt I suspended from (X session on vt7

Re: no sound in squeeze-SOLVED

2011-02-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/21/2011 10:55 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > What's alsasound? I have alsa-utils... > > Good clue on speaker-test, 1st time I heard of that. > > Hugo # ls -l /etc/init.d/als* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5695 Sep 24 2007 /etc/init.d/alsasound -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9651 Oct 4 14:14 /etc/init.d/a

Squeeze: No sound in YouTube

2011-02-21 Thread Mauricio Contreras
I have just installed Squeeze from 3 DVDs with KDE. I did a clean install. I can hear system sounds, and Amarok plays my mp3 files. I installed flash non-free: I can see Flash files but I cannot hear any sound on YouTube and similar sites. I have two sound cards, indexed 0 on the motherboard (Inte

Re: AC adapter state

2011-02-21 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 21/02/2011 03:32 μμ, Martin Kraus wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:40:19PM +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > >> Hello to all! >> >> I have a DELL laptop running debian squeeze where I cannot find whether >> it is connected on AC power or not. On an EEE laptop, I can check that >> using the in

Re: /USR/SBIN/CRON[20837]: (CRON) error (grandchild #20839 failed with exit status 1)

2011-02-21 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:15:49 +1100, Robert S wrote: > I'm getting these in my syslog: > > Feb 21 06:05:01 debian /USR/SBIN/CRON[17713]: (CRON) error (grandchild > #17716 failed with exit status 1) (...) > AFAICS I don't have any cron jobs running at 1 minute past the hour - in > /etc/crontab, /

[SOLVED] How do I install all complex fonts?

2011-02-21 Thread Hoang Le
Dear Camaleon, unifont works perfectly. Thank you very much

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Petrus Validus
> Get away from the web interface. Install Icedove/Evolution/Mutt and use > Google's IMAPs interface. I use Evolution and Mutt with Google's IMAP interface. It works nicely but I've noticed this quirky behavior when using a client via IMAP. My messages appear in multiple places at the same t

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-21 Thread Petrus Validus
> Any takes on this? > > What about the Satellites? Support for Satellites can be hit or miss, I've had better luck with the Tecra series. I have 3 of them here at the house and Debian works great on them. The only trouble I have with mine is getting the SD card slot to work and the fingerpr

Re: Xfce Power Manager popup message about HAL daemon

2011-02-21 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 02/21/2011 08:35 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2011 19 Feb 12:32 -0600, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 02/19/2011 12:31 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: Bug #612611 has been filed against xfce4-power-manager, xfce4-power-manager: Does not work with DBus activated HAL Message 15 in that report has a wor

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > > > On Sunday 20 February 2011 03:03:35 pm Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2011 20 Feb 14:22 -0600, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > > > Greetings: > > > > > > I'd like to set up a network with a firewall for my home computers > > > for security, control a

udev not setting the right permissions for cdrom drive

2011-02-21 Thread M.
Hello all, I'm having some problems with my cdrom drive. I cannot mount it as a normal user, as the permissions for it are brw--- 1 root root 11, 0 Fev 10 08:03 /dev/sr0 and neither kde or gnome can mount it without the right udev file. udev is not creating the correct file on /lib/udev/rule

Re: Apache rewrite module From Static to Dynamic

2011-02-21 Thread David Christensen
On 02/20/2011 10:32 PM, David Christensen wrote: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2082 Feb 20 22:27 apache-sandbox/log/rewrite.log It might help if I posted the contents of the rewrite log (D'oh!): 2011-02-21 11:23:28 dpchrist@p43400e ~ $ cat apache-sandbox/log/rewrite.log 192.168.0.34 - - [20/Feb/2011:

Re: udev not setting the right permissions for cdrom drive

2011-02-21 Thread AG
On 21/02/11 19:28, M. wrote: Hello all, I'm having some problems with my cdrom drive. I cannot mount it as a normal user, as the permissions for it are brw--- 1 root root 11, 0 Fev 10 08:03 /dev/sr0 and neither kde or gnome can mount it without the right udev file. udev is not creating the

Re: repos for dropbox and skype

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 20 feb 11, 21:14:15, Daniel Andersson wrote: > > For Skype, you have to update your APT sources with: > deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free > > This is only for Debian stable. And only for i386. For amd64 you will have to download the Ubuntu 64bit version an

can't get 1280x1024 in Wheezy

2011-02-21 Thread Steve Kleene
I installed Wheezy (testing) on a new desktop with an old Viewsonic 17 monitor. The Intel i5 DH55HC processor has an onboard VGA chip. I want an X display resolution of 1280x1024, which the monitor did easily under Lenny (but with an Asus GeForce2 MX400 video card). Now I'm getting 1024x768, and

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 feb 11, 12:59:56, Petrus Validus wrote: > > Get away from the web interface. Install Icedove/Evolution/Mutt and use > > Google's IMAPs interface. > > I use Evolution and Mutt with Google's IMAP interface. It works nicely > but I've noticed this quirky behavior when using a client via

.xsession-errors massive

2011-02-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
I have lots & lots of these errors: in .xsession-errors: (firefox-bin:15563): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead (firefox-bin:15563): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead (firefox-bin:15563): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead (firefox-bin:15563): Gdk-WARNING **: XID

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Tynan
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Petrus Validus wrote: Get away from the web interface. Install Icedove/Evolution/Mutt and use Google's IMAPs interface. I use Evolution and Mutt with Google's IMAP interface. It works nicely but I've noticed this quirky behavior when using a client via IMAP. My messages

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 feb 11, 07:17:18, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2011 20 Feb 22:06 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Some consumer wireless routers don't like to do DHCP pass through, and > > won't serve DHCP when configured as a bridge, in which case the Linux > > firewall will have to serve DHCP. If the wi

Re: Apache rewrite module From Static to Dynamic

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 20 feb 11, 22:22:05, David Christensen wrote: > > 2. The rewrite log is empty and owned by root: > > $ ll apache-sandbox/log/rewrite.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 20 > 21:57 apache-sandbox/log/rewrite.log Why is that a problem? Hint: the third 'r' means the log is readable by anyone

software updates

2011-02-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
I have a little orange pointed wheel in my system tray that shows 16 updates available. when I do apt-get update & apt-get upgrade there is nothing to install. when I click on the software updates & say NO, it gives me a menu selection of items that I DO NOT want in my system, like libnepomuk4, and

Re: Lenny-to-Squeeze: ... and no net. (Sorry, reSending)

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 feb 11, 10:01:42, PMA wrote: > > I gather from docs that the problem was my ISDN connection which, > after the reboot following "install -udev", Squeeze simply disabled. I'm not sure what you mean here. > So I've now on another box downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1-iso > and cat'd it

Re: .xsession-errors massive

2011-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/21/2011 02:26 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: I have lots& lots of these errors: in .xsession-errors: (firefox-bin:15563): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead (firefox-bin:15563): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead (firefox-bin:15563): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Tynan
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Lu, 21 feb 11, 12:59:56, Petrus Validus wrote: This one of the better "innovation" brought by Gmail, if used correctly. Unfortunately it's not very usable via IMAP. Example: How do I tell mutt to tag the message as read in All Mail when I delete it

Re: can't get 1280x1024 in Wheezy

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 feb 11, 20:21:01, Steve Kleene wrote: > I installed Wheezy (testing) on a new desktop with an old Viewsonic 17 > monitor. The Intel i5 DH55HC processor has an onboard VGA chip. I want an X > display resolution of 1280x1024, which the monitor did easily under Lenny > (but with an Asus Ge

Re: Xfce Power Manager popup message about HAL daemon

2011-02-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 21 Feb 12:35 -0600, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > And I thank you again! You're quite welcome. > In the meantime I'm starting the daemon from /etc/rc.local and > having no problems. > > I'm looking forward to eventually seeing Xfce 4.8. Indeed. Right now the packages in Experimental are

[OT] To Mutt and to Gmail (was: To gmail or not to gmail)

2011-02-21 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:21:18 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 21 feb 11, 12:59:56, Petrus Validus wrote: >> Is there a way for this to be disabled and subsequently have messages >> be displayed in their specific folders...or is this just how Gmail >> works? > > This one of the better "inno

Re: Apache rewrite module From Static to Dynamic

2011-02-21 Thread David Christensen
On 02/21/2011 12:33 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 20 feb 11, 22:22:05, David Christensen wrote: 2. The rewrite log is empty and owned by root: $ ll apache-sandbox/log/rewrite.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 20 21:57 apache-sandbox/log/rewrite.log Why is that a problem? Hint: the third 'r'

Re: .xsession-errors massive

2011-02-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/21/2011 03:47 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > (firefox-bin:15563): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead > > > > is it my configuration, or a major gtk issue? > > a) They are warnings, not errors. > b) They are *stupendously* common. > > $ grep 'XID collision, trouble ahead' .xsession-error

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 feb 11, 20:49:49, Peter Tynan wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >On Lu, 21 feb 11, 12:59:56, Petrus Validus wrote: > > > >This one of the better "innovation" brought by Gmail, if used correctly. > > > >Unfortunately it's not very usable via IMAP. Example: > >How do

Re: can't get 1280x1024 in Wheezy

2011-02-21 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:21:01 + (UTC), I wrote: > I installed Wheezy (testing) on a new desktop with an old Viewsonic 17 > monitor. ... I'm getting 1024x768, and 1280x1024 is not offered as an > option. On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:50:24 +0200, Andrei Popescu replied: > I think you need a minimal /

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Tynan
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: If you send via Gmail's SMTP you always have a copy in Gmail's sent, so it should be enough to tell alpine not to save its own copy. Check the headers - I use a local sendmail. I've been doing some digging and it is in a sub-folder named "Google Mail

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Andrei Popescu a écrit : > > Just don't forget to make sure the router's internal IP address is > different from any other machine on the network. Just like any other device. Nothing special here. > Easiest way for me was > to just use different sub-nets. Example: leave the router on 192.168.1

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Stan Hoeppner a écrit : > > You only need one > NIC in your firewall box when using a switch. You simply plug > everything into the switch including the DSL modem and the Netgear. > Bind both the public and private IP addresses to the same NIC in the > firewall using a virtual NIC: i.e. eth0 and

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Adrian Levi a écrit : > > I'd also suggest a static ip configuration with a setup like this, as > you'll only have one computer at the end of each ethernet segement you > won't gain anything from DHCP, you'd need a subnet declaration for > each nic and a pool statement. Ethernet cards can be brid

Re: Disc encryptian.

2011-02-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 06:32:26 +0100 Erwan David wrote: > On 21/02/11 05:05, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/20/2011 09:46 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote: > >> Greetings all, > >> > >> looking at the collective knowledge factor, what's the best disc > >> encryption package? > > > > Do you want to encrypt *e

which file is currently being written to disk?

2011-02-21 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all Is there some utility (console or otherwise) that could indicate me NOT the output/input read/write and miscellanea, but simply which files are currently being written to the disk. Sometimes my browser (Opera) downloads some temporary files, and usually have a difficult time locating them.

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-21 Thread Brian
On Mon 21 Feb 2011 at 14:51:00 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 19 feb 11, 20:10:28, Brian wrote: > > > > With NVidia the almost automatic response is to dive into the proprietry > > driver pool. It seems to me that unless 3D is a need (used by less than > > 5% of users) or the card is not s

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:34:56 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/21/2011 08:21 AM, Celejar wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:47:19 -0600 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> On 02/16/2011 04:51 PM, Celejar wrote: > >>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500 > >>> shawn wilson wrote: > >>> > >>> ... > >>>

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 feb 11, 22:48:21, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > Easiest way for me was > > to just use different sub-nets. Example: leave the router on 192.168.1.1 > > and build my own network on 192.158.0.XXX > > This is unnecessary, and makes it hard to manage the device. Ok, but IMVHO it would be

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Andrei Popescu a écrit : > > Ok, but IMVHO it would be a good idea to make sure the DHCP server does > not allocate the router's IP to some other host. Of course, like any other statically assigned address. Again, nothing special here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 feb 11, 21:47:47, Brian wrote: > > > > Does this count? > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23705 > > This isn't a bug in nouveau but I can appreciate the impact of 96 dpi in > some situations. The user could adopt various approaches to alleviating > the problem. For exampl

Re: Change default font size in xterm

2011-02-21 Thread Edward C. Jones
Edward C Jones said: > I can change the font size in an xterm by a menu brought up by > control-right-click. Unfortunately, I have to do this each time an xterm > is created. How can I permanently change the default font size for all > xterms? How can I change the window size (80x25 etc.)? To

Re: .xsession-errors massive

2011-02-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/21/2011 05:36 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote: > I think I have to write some bug reports since there are three programs > DOSing the .xsession-errors. 680 MByte in 3 days is inacceptable. > > However, if I stay as usualy one month and longer online my partition > will crash... yes, I delete

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 21 February 2011 16:47:10 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/21/2011 04:05 PM, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:34:56 -0600 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 02/21/2011 08:21 AM, Celejar wrote: > > Why should that be? The decision to support linux is > > basically the decision t

Re: which file is currently being written to disk?

2011-02-21 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > $ lsof | grep opera > > However, these files get written so quickly that I'd bet it won't be much > use except when downloading *big* file. > I'm interested in big files, indeed. I'll try this soon. Cheers Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: which file is currently being written to disk?

2011-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/21/2011 03:59 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all Is there some utility (console or otherwise) that could indicate me NOT the output/input read/write and miscellanea, but simply which files are currently being written to the disk. Sometimes my browser (Opera) downloads some temporary files,

Re: Two node storage failover with lvm and ISCSI

2011-02-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Denny Schierz put forth on 2/21/2011 4:20 AM: > hi Stan, > > Am Sonntag, den 20.02.2011, 20:13 -0600 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: >> It's not clear to me at this point if you need real time >> file/filesystem sharing or simply manual fail over from a dead host to >> a backup server. > > than it's my fa

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/21/2011 04:05 PM, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:34:56 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/21/2011 08:21 AM, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:47:19 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/2011 04:51 PM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500 shawn wilsonwrote: ...

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Tynan
On 21 February 2011 21:24, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Maybe this is mutt specific, but if I just delete the mail from Inbox in > All Mail the message is still marked as unread (a.k.a new). If I mark it > as read and sync, then it's also marked as read in All Mail. I assume > Gmail takes the delete f

Re: .xsession-errors massive

2011-02-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Paul Cartwright, Am 2011-02-21 16:01:58, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > > $ grep 'XID collision, trouble ahead' .xsession-errors | wc > > 275772 1930404 18116684 > wow, ya got me beat:) > $ grep 'XID collision, trouble ahead' .xsession-errors | wc > 137884 965188 9100344 > > I was goo

Re: Cannot set preferred application

2011-02-21 Thread Russell Gadd
On 21/02/11 15:00, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:56:21 +, Russell Gadd wrote: On 20/02/11 19:30, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:16:12 +, Russell Gadd wrote: (...) So I now try right clicking on the file and choose Open with "Other Application", choose "audacious" an

Re: Keyboard Mapping Strangeness

2011-02-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/02/11 11:22, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:31:16 +, Alan Chandler wrote: On 17/02/11 13:56, Camaleón wrote: What does GDM greeter say about keyboard settings when the user logins? I missed this response when you made it, sorry. I am not sure what you mean by what does

Re: Apache rewrite module From Static to Dynamic

2011-02-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On 21/02/11 21:00, David Christensen wrote: On 02/21/2011 12:33 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 20 feb 11, 22:22:05, David Christensen wrote: 2. The rewrite log is empty and owned by root: $ ll apache-sandbox/log/rewrite.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 20 21:57 apache-sandbox/log/rewrite.log

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Pascal Hambourg put forth on 2/21/2011 3:51 PM: > Stan Hoeppner a écrit : >> >> You only need one >> NIC in your firewall box when using a switch. You simply plug >> everything into the switch including the DSL modem and the Netgear. >> Bind both the public and private IP addresses to the same NIC

Re: Configuring QLogic QLA4010c on Debian on Sparc

2011-02-21 Thread RR
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > RR put forth on 2/16/2011 1:14 PM: > > > All through this though I'm assuming that since the kernel modules seem > to > > be loaded already and if I'm planning to configure the HBAs via config > files > > I don't need the driver that is avail

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Pascal Hambourg put forth on 2/21/2011 3:51 PM: > > Stan Hoeppner a écrit : > >> > >> You only need one > >> NIC in your firewall box when using a switch. You simply plug > >> everything into the switch including the DSL modem and the Netgea

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 21 Feb 18:14 -0600, shawn wilson wrote: > supposedly, there is also a way to 'pivot' past a nat device - i haven't > looked into this, so i can't speak to this much... Not only that but as we move to IPv6 there is no such thing as NAT. New network device installations should be taking I

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Stan writes: > For this to be a real security issue, any attack must start below the > IP level... Or from the inside. If none of the machines on the LAN are running Windows you're probably ok. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
shawn wilson put forth on 2/21/2011 6:05 PM: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Pascal Hambourg put forth on 2/21/2011 3:51 PM: >>> Stan Hoeppner a écrit : You only need one NIC in your firewall box when using a switch. You simply plug everything into

Re: Configuring QLogic QLA4010c on Debian on Sparc

2011-02-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
RR put forth on 2/21/2011 5:47 PM: > I hope it's "simply" just that and the HBA doesn't need any programming via > its own utility that accesses the firmware through some low-level API via > the driver etc that I have packages for for other OS/Distros Have you looked yet in? /sys/module/qla4xxx/p

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
John Hasler put forth on 2/21/2011 6:24 PM: > Stan writes: >> For this to be a real security issue, any attack must start below the >> IP level... > > Or from the inside. If none of the machines on the LAN are running > Windows you're probably ok. How is this a security issue? Broadcast packets

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Petrus Validus
> > Is there a way for this to be disabled and subsequently have > > messages be displayed in their specific folders...or is this just how > > Gmail works? > > This one of the better "innovation" brought by Gmail, if used correctly. I interpret the "if used correctly" bit to mean "using the GM

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