Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-06 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, tadziu wrote: > i'm just curious, is there any chance to bring iceweasel 4.0 to > stable before google ends support for 3,5? i got 4.0 on my > second computer with squeeze, but i had to mess a bit to get > it working, and it's not performing as well as i've expected. Re. the getting version 4.

Re: circular link schroot 1.4.19-1

2011-06-06 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:45:59AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > This morning, I upgraded my system and: > > apt-get upgrade > [...] > Setting up schroot (1.4.19-1+squeeze1) ... > dpkg: warning: schroot: config file '/etc/schroot/default/nssdatabases' is > a circular link > (=

Re: circular link schroot 1.4.19-1

2011-06-06 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 10:15:01 +0100 > Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:45:59AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby > wrote: > > This morning, I upgraded my system and: > > > > apt-get upgrade > > [...] > > Setting up schroot (1.4.19-1+squeeze1) ... > > dpkg: warning: schroot: c

linux-boot-prober and grub on other OS

2011-06-06 Thread Simon Pepping
I have a debian and a ubuntu system in two different partitions on the same disk. grub-pc on the debian system provides the boot-loader. When I have grub-pc installed on the ubuntu system, updates of that package overwrite debian's grub on the MBR. When I uninstall grub-pc from ubuntu, update-gru

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-06 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:02 AM, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/05/11 at 03:59pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Sb, 04 iun 11, 22:56:19, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > >> > (I'd suggest that you give static IP addresses to your desktop >> > machines and use the /etc/hosts file -- yes, even Windows has one -

Re: linux-boot-prober and grub on other OS

2011-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 11:10 +, Simon Pepping wrote: > I have a debian and a ubuntu system in two different partitions on the same > disk. grub-pc on the debian system provides the boot-loader. > > When I have grub-pc installed on the ubuntu system, updates of that package > overwrite debian's

Re: re-installing grub (lvm)

2011-06-06 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: >> but upon reboot the grub list is empty ... > > update-grub2? > > or dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc update-grub2 did some neat tricks ! However it failed to detect my past system within LVM. I did lost too much time on this, so I'll simply re-install

Skype: Choppy sound and high packet loss

2011-06-06 Thread Matthias Andersson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I've had difficulties to get Skype to work. I suffer from choppy audio and high packet loss specifically on the sending side of the transmission. I've configured my router to open the ports for the application without it really making a difference

Re: linux-boot-prober and grub on other OS

2011-06-06 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Btw. the command 'submenu' works with Ubuntu, but not > Debian, for GRUB2 there seems to be several setups, or plugins or ...?! Wheezy and Natty have "submenu". Squeeze, Maverick, and Lucid don't. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: linux-boot-prober and grub on other OS

2011-06-06 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Simon Pepping wrote: > > I have a debian and a ubuntu system in two different partitions on the same > disk. grub-pc on the debian system provides the boot-loader. > > When I have grub-pc installed on the ubuntu system, updates of that package > overwrite debian's g

Re: linux-boot-prober and grub on other OS

2011-06-06 Thread Brian
On Mon 06 Jun 2011 at 11:10:59 +, Simon Pepping wrote: > When I have grub-pc installed on the ubuntu system, updates of that package > overwrite debian's grub on the MBR. You could install Ubuntu's GRUB on the root partition. Or try to; it seems it may be fraught. > When I uninstall grub-pc

Re: Skype: Choppy sound and high packet loss

2011-06-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:34:15 +0300, Matthias Andersson wrote: > I've had difficulties to get Skype to work. I suffer from choppy audio > and high packet loss specifically on the sending side of the > transmission. I've configured my router to open the ports for the > application without it really

Preseed and host based varaibles

2011-06-06 Thread Wawrzek Niewodniczanski
Hi, I wonder if it possible with preseed to set some response as a variable base on a hostname. I.e. in exim4 do: exim4-config exim4/mailname string ($hostname) where $hostname is pick-up from machine the OS is installed on. If it is not possible I'll create a preseed.cfg file dynamical. Che

Re: problems with Gnome and KDE

2011-06-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:44:59 +0200, Vladimir Kerka wrote: > I really need help with two problems: > 1. minor problem: whenever I start > Gnome, there is message like this: "Jun 5 22:55:47 dunadan > gnome-session[4527]: WARNING: Application 'nautilus.desktop' failed to > register before timeout"

Setting CPU affinity for binaries in given directory

2011-06-06 Thread darkestkhan
I have BOINC installed in ~/BOINC/ directory and all processes BOINC manager is launching are launched from subdirectories of this directory. It seems like scheduler is moving them from core 0 to core 1 and back, but I would like to avoid this since they are computationally intensive and those jump

Time Issues

2011-06-06 Thread Hardt, Sebastian (IV 1)
Hi folks, i installed a new server (squeeze) with the new netinsall-iso. now i started setting time and some issue turned up. here is a part of my console output. root@xy:/# tzselect ... The following information has been given: Germany Therefore TZ='Europe/Berlin' will be used. Lo

Re: Time Issues

2011-06-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:03:50 +0200, Hardt, Sebastian (IV 1) wrote: > i installed a new server (squeeze) with the new netinsall-iso. now i > started setting time and some issue turned up. here is a part of my > console output. (...) > root@xy:/# hwclock > Mo 06 Jun 2011 16:59:56 CEST -0.765840 s

Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-06 Thread Matt
I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. Giving Debian a whirl now. Installed Debian on a 1U box. Used a 1TB drive and EXT4. Linux debian 2.6.32-5-amd64 root@debian:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 916G 661M 868G 1%

security-warning

2011-06-06 Thread Klaus Wolf
Dear guys, her is again a warning of the german Ministry for Security Internet: This warning is for Win, Mac, Linux and Solaris [1] Adobe Security Bulletin APSB11-13 vom 2011-06-05 http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-13.html Security-update: http://get.adobe.com/de/flashpla

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote: > I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. > Giving Debian a whirl now. > [cut] > > yum update This becomes "apt-get update" in debian. > > or: > > yum install package_name apt-get install package_name > > To find

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-06 Thread Tom Grace
On 06/06/2011 05:15 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote: >> Now on Centos when I do 'yum update' after a fresh install I usually >> get offered a good number of patches etc. When I do 'apt-get update' >> I seem to get nothing. > > Is your sources.list no

hard drive configuration

2011-06-06 Thread prad
in the past we've had two partitions: / /data into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any data copying to do. now we've been experimenting with

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:03:36 -0500, Matt wrote: > I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. Giving > Debian a whirl now. (...) > Now on Centos when I do 'yum update' after a fresh install I usually get > offered a good number of patches etc. When I do 'apt-get update' I se

Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread peasthope
Iceweasel 3.5.16 is working in Squeeze here. Using the menue, File > Open File, it opens /home/peter/blah.html. The URI displayed is "file:///home/peter/blah.html". Alternatively, the file can be opened by typing or pasting that URI into the window. There is a third possibility. Suppose th

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-06 Thread Chris Brennan
* prad [2011-06-06 09:23:08 -0700]: > in the past we've had two partitions: > / > /data > into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the > appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that > when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any data

Re: Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, June 6, 2011 1:27 pm, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > There is a third possibility. Suppose there is a Web page containing > a link anchored at either http://localhost/home/peter/blah.html or > http:///home/peter/blah.html. Seems reasonable and straightforward > for this method of opening a

Re: Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:27:41 -0800, peasthope wrote: > Iceweasel 3.5.16 is working in Squeeze here. Using the menue, File > > Open File, it opens /home/peter/blah.html. The URI displayed is > "file:///home/peter/blah.html". Alternatively, the file can be opened > by typing or pasting that URI i

Re: Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread Erwan David
On 06/06/11 19:27, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Iceweasel 3.5.16 is working in Squeeze here. Using the menue, > File > Open File, it opens /home/peter/blah.html. The URI > displayed is "file:///home/peter/blah.html". Alternatively, > the file can be opened by typing or pasting that URI into the

Re (2): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread peasthope
From: Camaleon Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:48:05 + (UTC) > You mean you want the browser automatically jumps to "file://localhost/ > home/peter/blah.html" when it cannot reach "http://localhost/home/peter/ > blah.html"? Oops. An error in my question. Should have been this. Suppose there

Re: Re (2): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:58:42 -0800, peasthope wrote: > From: Camaleon > Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:48:05 + (UTC) >> You mean you want the browser automatically jumps to "file://localhost/ >> home/peter/blah.html" when it cannot reach >> "http://localhost/home/peter/ blah.html"? > > Oops. An

Re: security-warning

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 11:12 AM, Klaus Wolf wrote: Dear guys, her is again a warning of the german Ministry for Security Internet: We do appreciate you thinking of us, but this isn't a security list. -- "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a pe

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 11:23 AM, prad wrote: in the past we've had two partitions: / /data into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any data copying to

Re: security-warning

2011-06-06 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 13:21, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/06/2011 11:12 AM, Klaus Wolf wrote: >> >> Dear guys, >> >> her is again a warning of the german Ministry for Security Internet: >> > > We do appreciate you thinking of us, but this isn't a security list. > + iirc, most people get / know abo

Re: Preseed and host based varaibles

2011-06-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:02:49 +0100, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: > I wonder if it possible with preseed to set some response as a variable > base on a hostname. I.e. in exim4 do: > > exim4-config exim4/mailname string ($hostname) where $hostname is > pick-up from machine the OS is installed on.

no java plugin for Wheezy browsers?

2011-06-06 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
During the spate of upgrades that I installed on my Wheezy systems over the past few days I noticed that the icedtea6-plugin package had been removed. There's only one site at which I use a Java plugin for my browsers. I'm not going to use the non-free or contrib repositories on these systems,

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-06 Thread Lisi
On Monday 06 June 2011 17:03:36 Matt wrote: > I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. > Giving Debian a whirl now. Having made a desultary attempt in teh other direction, I feel your pain. :-( [snip] > In Centos when I want to update or add a package I do this: > > yum upd

Re: Problems installing grub/lilo with RAID1 on /

2011-06-06 Thread Felix Natter
Tom H writes: hello Tom, > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Felix Natter > wrote: > > >> I am trying to install squeeze (from live DVD[1]) with a RAID1 root >> filesystem (/dev/md0). >> >> There is an error when running grub-install: >> Jun 5 18:38:18 grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-instal

Re: Setting CPU affinity for binaries in given directory

2011-06-06 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/06/11 at 02:50pm, darkestkhan wrote: > Is there any way to specify CPU affinity for binaries > launched from given directory (and it's subdirectories) ? AFAIK, no. You can set up a process watcher to scan for processes with a certain name and set their affinity, or you can call the processe

Re: Re (2): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/06/11 at 09:58am, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > From: Camaleon > Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:48:05 + (UTC) > > You mean you want the browser automatically jumps to "file://localhost/ > > home/peter/blah.html" when it cannot reach "http://localhost/home/peter/ > > blah.html"? > > Oops. An er

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-06 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Hi, > > tadziu wrote: > > i'm just curious, is there any chance to bring iceweasel 4.0 to > > stable before google ends support for 3,5? i got 4.0 on my > > second computer with squeeze, but i had to mess a bit to get > > it working, and it'

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-06 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/06/11 at 06:52pm, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 06 June 2011 17:03:36 Matt wrote: > > I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. > > Giving Debian a whirl now. > > Having made a desultary attempt in teh other direction, I feel your pain. :-( > > [snip] > > In Centos when I wa

Re: linux-boot-prober and grub on other OS

2011-06-06 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I know that I stand alone with this opinion, but I edit grub.cfg > manually, instead of wasting hours, days, month with learning how to set > up several files, that then anyway won't set up grub.cfg 100% the way I > wish to have it. > [snip]

Re: linux-boot-prober and grub on other OS

2011-06-06 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I know that I stand alone with this opinion, but I edit grub.cfg > manually, instead of wasting hours, days, month with learning how to set > up several files, that then anyway won't set up grub.cfg 100% the way I > wish to have it. > [snip]

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-06 Thread Dan
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Simon Brandmair wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 3/6/2011 19:50 Axel Freyn wrote: >> [...] >>> For NFSv4 this has changed. You can use NFSv4 in different modes. The >>> easy one has the same problem. > > NFSv4 is a g

Re: circular link schroot 1.4.19-1

2011-06-06 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 12:28:25PM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 10:15:01 +0100 > > Roger Leigh wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:45:59AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby > > wrote: > > > This morning, I upgraded my system and: > > > > > > apt-get upgrade > >

Re: Problems installing grub/lilo with RAID1 on /

2011-06-06 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Hi, 06/06/2011 20:16, Felix Natter wrote: > Tom H writes: > > hello Tom, > >> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Felix Natter >> wrote: >> >> >>> I am trying to install squeeze (from live DVD[1]) with a RAID1 root >>> filesystem (/dev/md0). >>> >>> There is an error when running grub-install: >>

Re: ia64 and i386

2011-06-06 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:57:39 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:21:37 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 May 2011 21:14:38 +0530 > > Mihira Fernando wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> Adobe flashplayer comes to mind as well. While there is a 64 bit > >> player, I've found that

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-06 Thread Lisi
On Monday 06 June 2011 19:27:24 William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/06/11 at 06:52pm, Lisi wrote: > > On Monday 06 June 2011 17:03:36 Matt wrote: > > > I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. > > > Giving Debian a whirl now. > > > > Having made a desultary attempt in teh other di

Re (3): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread peasthope
From: Camaleon Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:13:58 + (UTC) > ... that should work from local ... It does; and my interest is to have a menu of frequently used files and links ... on a Web server. > I'm afraid that for security reasons it is blocked from remote sites. I don't understand. A

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get - erratum

2011-06-06 Thread Lisi
On Monday 06 June 2011 20:14:34 Lisi wrote: > The fact that you are unfamiliar with apt-get update should, of course, be apt-get full-upgrade. Sorry :-( I'm a lousy typist and teh keyboard seems to affect my brain. Lisi > is not strictly > relevant here, though if someone who is familiar wit

Re: Time Issues

2011-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 16:00 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:03:50 +0200, Hardt, Sebastian (IV 1) wrote: > > > i installed a new server (squeeze) with the new netinsall-iso. now i > > started setting time and some issue turned up. here is a part of my > > console output. > > (...)

Re (3): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread peasthope
From: William Hopkins Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:21:08 -0400 > Since the file protocol method already specifies path-based navigation, what > is the benefit? There is a menu of frequently used files and links on my Web server. Update that one text. Access it from any machine at any locatio

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-06 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:51 -0400, Dan wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Simon Brandmair wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On 3/6/2011 19:50 Axel Freyn wrote: > >> [...] > >>> For NFSv4 this has changed. You can use NFSv4 in different mo

Re: Re (3): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:18:40 -0800, peasthope wrote: > From: Camaleon > Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:13:58 + (UTC) >> ... that should work from local ... > > It does; and my interest is to have a menu of frequently used files and > links ... on a Web server. Okay. >> I'm afraid that for secu

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-06 Thread Matt
> remains that yum update installs things and apt-get update simply updates the > database.  This caused me considerable confusion.  I suggest that you check > this before telling me that I am incorrect in believing it. Doing: yum update Causes yum to check all installed packages including kerne

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-06 Thread Lisi
On Monday 06 June 2011 20:39:40 Matt wrote: > I gather in the apt-get world the equivalent is: > > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade Yes - but certainly in aptitude (I am more familiar with aptitude than with apt) it is now recommended to use either aptitude safe-upgrade or aptitude full-upgrade

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-06 Thread Dan
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:32 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:51 -0400, Dan wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Simon Brandmair wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> On 3/6/2011 19:50 Axel Freyn wrote: >> >> [...

floppy drive in debian stable

2011-06-06 Thread Charlie Derr
Greetings, I'm not subscribed to debian-user anymore, so would appreciate a CC on the response if someone has an idea about how to solve the below. I have a friend who has used debian GNU/linux (with the help of others) for many years. After his most recent upgrade to stable, everything is wo

Re (4): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread peasthope
From: Camaleon Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:34:24 + (UTC) > Can you give a concrete example of your goal? In your home directory, make a file named Category2.html containing any valid html text. The example you gave in your earlier reply will be fine. Open "http://members.shaw.ca/peastho

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-06 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote: >> >> I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. >> Giving Debian a whirl now. >> >> yum update > > This becomes "apt-get update" in debian. No. "apt-get update; apt-g

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get - erratum

2011-06-06 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 06 June 2011 20:14:34 Lisi wrote: >> >> The fact that you are unfamiliar with apt-get update > > should, of course, be apt-get full-upgrade. You mean "apt-get dist-upgrade" ("aptitude full-upgrade" is the aptitude equivalent). -- To UNSUB

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get - erratum

2011-06-06 Thread Lisi
On Monday 06 June 2011 21:25:52 Tom H wrote: > You mean "apt-get dist-upgrade" ("aptitude full-upgrade" is the > aptitude equivalent). Thanks - I am much more familiar with aptitude. Because aptitude has "switched" (by recommendation, not by formal instructions) from aptitude dist-upgrade to ap

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:39 -0500, Matt wrote: > > remains that yum update installs things and apt-get update simply updates > > the > > database. This caused me considerable confusion. I suggest that you check > > this before telling me that I am incorrect in believing it. > > Doing: > > yum

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-06 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 16:03 -0400, Dan wrote: > > I think that sshfs is a file system oriented to the user, and NFS can > be used for many users. NFS should be more robust if there are many > users connected. > > Moreover, with sshfs each user will have to mount his folder and enter > his passwo

Re: floppy drive in debian stable

2011-06-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
[CC'ed as per request] Charlie Derr: > > mount: special device /dev/fd0 does not exist Your friend probably needs to load the 'floppy' module manually. To make the system auto-load it on boot, just add a line containing 'floppy' to /etc/modules. J. -- After the millenium I will shoot to kill.

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-06 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/06/11 at 07:53am, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:02 AM, William Hopkins wrote: > > On 06/05/11 at 03:59pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Sb, 04 iun 11, 22:56:19, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > > >> > (I'd suggest that you give static IP addresses to your desktop > >> > machin

Trinity and Pearson computing

2011-06-06 Thread Lisi
Does anyone know what has happened to the Perason website? And whether the repositories at least are findable somewhere else? I can't ask on the mailing list, because that appears to have disappeared along with everything else. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: Trinity and Pearson computing

2011-06-06 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 21:58 +0100, Lisi wrote: > Does anyone know what has happened to the Perason website? And whether the > repositories at least are findable somewhere else? > > I can't ask on the mailing list, because that appears to have disappeared > along with everything else. > > Lis

Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-06 Thread alberto fuentes
I few months ago I saw some scripts with a list of 50 or so common problems in a debian box. The scripts were suppose to randomly break something on the system so you had to find the problem and fix it. The fix was saved into some file so you could know what was failing afterward. These scripts we

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get - erratum

2011-06-06 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 06 June 2011 21:25:52 Tom H wrote: >> >> You mean "apt-get dist-upgrade" ("aptitude full-upgrade" is the >> aptitude equivalent). > > Thanks - I am much more familiar with aptitude. You're welcome. I use apt-get but the aptitude options make

Re: Re: Problems installing grub/lilo with RAID1 on /

2011-06-06 Thread Tom H
>Tom H writes: >> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Felix Natter >> wrote: >>> >>> When trying to install lilo (with the debian-installler), I get >>> "inconsistent raid information" (but the RAID1 (2x 208G) was created >>> with debian-installer): >>> >>> Jun 5 19:22:00 in-target: Running lilo... >

Re: Setting CPU affinity for binaries in given directory

2011-06-06 Thread darkestkhan
2011/6/6 William Hopkins : > On 06/06/11 at 02:50pm, darkestkhan wrote: >> Is there any way to specify CPU affinity for binaries >> launched from given directory (and it's subdirectories) ? > > AFAIK, no. You can set up a process watcher to scan for processes with a > certain name and set their af

Fwd: Setting CPU affinity for binaries in given directory

2011-06-06 Thread darkestkhan
2011/6/6 William Hopkins : > On 06/06/11 at 02:50pm, darkestkhan wrote: >> Is there any way to specify CPU affinity for binaries >> launched from given directory (and it's subdirectories) ? > > AFAIK, no. You can set up a process watcher to scan for processes with a > certain name and set their af

Re: Re (4): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 04:12 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Camaleon Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:34:24 + (UTC) Can you give a concrete example of your goal? In your home directory, make a file named Category2.html containing any valid html text. The example you gave in your earlier reply wil

Re: Re (3): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/06/11 at 12:27pm, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > From: William Hopkins > Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:21:08 -0400 > > Since the file protocol method already specifies path-based navigation, > > what is the benefit? > > There is a menu of frequently used files and links on my Web server. > Updat

Re: security-warning

2011-06-06 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 01:29:11PM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 13:21, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 06/06/2011 11:12 AM, Klaus Wolf wrote: > >> > >> Dear guys, > >> > >> her is again a warning of the german Ministry for Security Internet: > >> > > > > We do appreciate you think

How to use ALSA from the kernel?

2011-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) after removing all ALSA packages, excepted of libasound2, ALSA is broken. I kept libasound2, because it's a dependency for audio apps. If needed I could replace it by a dummy package. Right now I build kernel 2.6.39.1 to replace my kernel 2.6.33.9-rt31. I suspect, that when the kernel is in

PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) when using a PS/2 mouse with stable or testing the mouse wheel very seldom does work, usually it doesn't. For Ubuntu Maverick and Natty it's the same. I replaced the mouse with an USB mouse and the mouse wheel seems to work all the time, tested with Debian testing only. I didn't reboot very

Re: Setting CPU affinity for binaries in given directory

2011-06-06 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/06/11 at 10:14pm, darkestkhan wrote: > 2011/6/6 William Hopkins : > > On 06/06/11 at 02:50pm, darkestkhan wrote: > >> Is there any way to specify CPU affinity for binaries > >> launched from given directory (and it's subdirectories) ? > > > > AFAIK, no. You can set up a process watcher to sca

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) when using a PS/2 mouse with stable or testing the mouse wheel very seldom does work, usually it doesn't. For Ubuntu Maverick and Natty it's the same. [snip] Since you didn't tell us what kind of PS/2 mouse, how in Eris' name are we supposed t

Re: How to use ALSA from the kernel?

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) after removing all ALSA packages, excepted of libasound2, ALSA is broken. I kept libasound2, because it's a dependency for audio apps. If needed I could replace it by a dummy package. Right now I build kernel 2.6.39.1 to replace my kernel 2.6.33

Re: Re: Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread peasthope
* From: "Carl Fink" * Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 12:30:21 -0400 > The first is a valid URL now, if you have a web server on your local box. > The second is not valid under the definition of URLs. My message at Mon, 6 Jun 2011 09:58:42 -0800 corrected the URI to file://localhost/home/pete

Re: are you still into network marketing?

2011-06-06 Thread Imran Hussain
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Re: How to use ALSA from the kernel?

2011-06-06 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/07/11 at 01:05am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > after removing all ALSA packages, excepted of libasound2, ALSA is > broken. I kept libasound2, because it's a dependency for audio apps. If > needed I could replace it by a dummy package. > What packages did you remove? They were probably ne

Re (5): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread peasthope
From: Ron Johnson Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:37:25 -0500 > Could it be that Native Oberon works differently than Linux + FF do? Yes, my examples show a difference. NO opens the file URI. Iceweasel does not. > Nope. Just your understanding. Quite possible. If someone can point out the erro

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 18:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Since you didn't tell us what kind of PS/2 mouse, how in Eris' name are > we supposed to help you? Trekker Wheel Mouse 2.0A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: How to use ALSA from the kernel?

2011-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 19:38 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/07/11 at 01:05am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Hi :) > > > > after removing all ALSA packages, excepted of libasound2, ALSA is > > broken. I kept libasound2, because it's a dependency for audio apps. If > > needed I could replace it by a

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 07:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 18:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Since you didn't tell us what kind of PS/2 mouse, how in Eris' name are we supposed to help you? Trekker Wheel Mouse 2.0A Is that a MS two-button mou

Re: How to use ALSA from the kernel?

2011-06-06 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/07/11 at 02:46am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 19:38 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > On 06/07/11 at 01:05am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Hi :) > > > > > > after removing all ALSA packages, excepted of libasound2, ALSA is > > > broken. I kept libasound2, because it's a dependen

[Debian 6] - unexpected issue with iso images

2011-06-06 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. First thing - I think that it would be a good idea for each version to have its own mailing list, with message prepending (in a form such as the one above), so that users can easily identify messages that apply to each user's particular appropriate version(s). Second thing (and, the p

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-06 Thread Doug
On 06/06/2011 07:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) when using a PS/2 mouse with stable or testing the mouse wheel very seldom does work, usually it doesn't. For Ubuntu Maverick and Natty it's the same. I replaced the mouse with an USB mouse and the mouse wheel seems to work all the time, tested

Re: How to use ALSA from the kernel?

2011-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 21:18 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/07/11 at 02:46am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 19:38 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > > On 06/07/11 at 01:05am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > Hi :) > > > > > > > > after removing all ALSA packages, excepted of libaso

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 20:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/06/2011 07:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 18:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Since you didn't tell us what kind of PS/2 mouse, how in Eris' name are > >> we suppose

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 21:33 -0400, Doug wrote: > On 06/06/2011 07:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Hi :) > > > > when using a PS/2 mouse with stable or testing the mouse wheel very > > seldom does work, usually it doesn't. For Ubuntu Maverick and Natty it's > > the same. > > > > I replaced the mouse

Re: [Debian 6] - unexpected issue with iso images

2011-06-06 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/07/11 at 09:27am, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > First thing - I think that it would be a good idea for each version > to have its own mailing list, with message prepending (in a form > such as the one above), so that users can easily identify messages > that apply to each user's particular

Re: How to use ALSA from the kernel?

2011-06-06 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/07/11 at 03:41am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 21:18 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > On 06/07/11 at 02:46am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 19:38 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > > > On 06/07/11 at 01:05am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > Hi :) > > > > > > >

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 08:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 20:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/06/2011 07:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 18:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Since you didn't tell us what kind of PS/2 mouse, how

Re: How to use ALSA from the kernel?

2011-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 22:09 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/07/11 at 03:41am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 21:18 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > > On 06/07/11 at 02:46am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 19:38 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > > > > On 06/0

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 21:23 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/06/2011 08:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 20:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 06/06/2011 07:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >>> On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 18:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, R

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 21:23 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/06/2011 08:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 20:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 06/06/2011 07:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >>> On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 18:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, R

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